Former UFC and Bellator MMA fighter Sabah Homasi was spectacular contained in the ring at Naked Knuckle Preventing Championship’s Tampa occasion final weekend, incomes a fast win over Eduardo Peralta within the second spherical.
The 36-year-old Homasi signed with BKFC after experiencing first-hand the fallout from the Skilled Fighters League (PFL) buying Bellator MMA late final yr.
“I actually known as it,” Homasi instructed MMA Preventing. “I instructed all people. I mentioned it earlier than it occurred. I mentioned this is able to be the worst factor to occur in MMA right now. It f*cking occurred. They did an enormous disservice to veteran fighters on their roster.
“They reduce over 100 individuals. 100 excessive degree fighters. It’s like the place are these guys going to go struggle?”
PFL co-founder Donn Davis promised “all of them are coming over”, which means fighters employed by Bellator MMA would struggle for the PFL. That finally didn’t occur, and lots of had been both reduce or left with out fights.
“As quickly as PFL got here into the image and so they acquired Bellator, these guys are a bunch of f*cking jokes,” Homasi mentioned. “They don’t know run a f*cking present. I really feel like they got here into MMA, and so they needed to develop into standard and be round a bunch of fighters, who the f*ck is aware of. However these guys f*cking suck. They don’t know run an MMA group. They placed on exhibits and there’s nobody within the godd*mn stands.
“I did an interview after the struggle, I mentioned ‘pay attention my recommendation to fighters in PFL or anybody contemplating signing with PFL, get it whereas there’s nonetheless water within the properly as a result of that f*cking properly goes to run dry.’ That’s it.”
Homasi says that he’s nonetheless owed cash for medical payments he amassed from his remaining struggle in Bellator in September 2023 with PFL officers placing the duty on the previous homeowners at Paramount.
“They nonetheless owe me like $25,000, perhaps extra, I’m nonetheless ready on this shit,” Homasi mentioned. “It’s simply loopy to me that it’s been over a yr. They’re making an attempt to level the finger and say that they’re not accountable for it and all this shit. You say you wish to compete with the UFC. The UFC would by no means do that to any of their fighters.
“They’re making an attempt to say that [Paramount] is accountable. Motherf*ckers, you acquired an organization, you bought an organization, now you purchase all of their goddamn debt. Do what’s proper in your half. You’re paying guys f*cking thousands and thousands of {dollars}. It’s not such as you don’t have any f*cking cash. Simply pay me this little f*cking chump change so I can get this shit off my again. That’s it however they’re items of shit. Donn Davis, all these f*cking guys.”
Within the MMA Preventing interivew Homasi additionally addressed current complaints from among the high champions in Bellator together with Patricio Pitbull and Patchy Combine, who’ve gone so far as asking for a launch from the promotion resulting from lengthy durations of inactivity.
“That’s as a result of they’ll’t afford to pay these fighters,” Homasi mentioned. “That’s the factor, you will have all these high-level guys, you buy an organization with out even f*cking figuring out what these guys are making and that’s why they made such an enormous reduce. Now you will have your f*cking world champions sidelined and now everybody goes public with it and so they’re making bulletins as a result of they’re f*cking fed up and sick of this shit. You need fighters to renegotiate new offers since you don’t wish to pay them the f*cking cash on their contract? Get the f*ck out of right here.
“Now these fighters aren’t preventing. They’re sidelined as a result of [PFL] doesn’t wish to need to pay the f*cking cash that they negotiated to struggle with. It’s f*cking ridiculous. I’m afraid to see these guys in public as a result of I don’t even understand how I’m going to behave. These guys are items of shit.”
