Liz Carmouche added one more exemplary chapter to her story at PFL San Diego, however her post-fight interview didn’t precisely seize the curiosity of the PFL CEO. The previous Bellator MMA champion and multi-division UFC title challenger secured a guillotine choke over Viviane Araujo on June twenty seventh of their co-main occasion conflict.
Pechanga Enviornment was ecstatic as Carmouche all however cemented herself for a vacant flyweight title shot, however the influential girls’s MMA determine finally used her post-fight microphone time to name for PFL to ascertain a bantamweight division for the ladies.
PFL CEO John Martin spoke to assembled media because the occasion wrapped up in California, with video footage supplied by House of Combat, and when requested in regards to the aforementioned dynamics associated to Carmouche, Martin stated,
“Yeah I used to be much less thinking about her asking for extra [laughs], asking for extra weight lessons. I might have appreciated to have seen her exhibit to me, and all people else, that she needs the belt. When AJ [McKee] received, what did he do? He’s like I would like the belt.”
“So Liz [Carmouche] has bought to exhibit she needs the belt cuz you realize who else demonstrated tonight she needs the belt? Jena Bishop and so Liz actually placed on a terrific struggle tonight. Jena did too. However I’m centered on; I would like Liz or Jena to be trying on the winner of Dakota [Ditcheva] and Denise [Kielholtz] and get that performed brief order.”
Liz Carmouche touches on who she thinks her PFL flyweight title opponent can be
Liz Carmouche referenced {that a} return to bantamweight is motivated by the reduce to 125 kilos getting tougher in latest instances, however the trailblazing determine continues to be eager on preventing for PFL flyweight gold, if provided. With Carmouche being within the first-ever girls’s UFC title struggle in historical past, she fought for the bantamweight crown, however subsequent promotional runs with Bellator MMA and PFL haven’t seen out there choices for girls’s 135-pound fighters to ply their commerce.
Additionally, on the PFL San Diego post-fight press convention, in addressing the looming PFL New York bout between Dakota Ditcheva and Denise Kielholtz, it looks as if Carmouche is assured the previous will win in that one and {that a} Ditcheva vs. Carmouche title bout can be organized for in a while this calendar 12 months.
