‘Dangerous’ Dakota Ditcheva faced a sharp rise in level of her MMA opponents when she faced Taila Santos in the PFL women’s flyweight playoff final of 2024, but she made the Brazilian look amateurish on the way to a second round TKO.
Ditcheva defended every takedown and comfortably out-struck Santos in the opening stanza, but the second round was when she turned the heat up. With elbows now allowed in PFL title fights, Dakota’s ‘eight limbs’ kept up a constant assault to the head and body, completely flummoxing a veteran with twice as much experience.
After a series of especially brutal knees to the body made possible by her slick clinch work, Dakota landed a left hook to the solar plexus which made her foe double over in pain. She did not relent, punching the ribs again and again until the referee saw that Taila’s body just could not take any more, no matter how tough she was.
DAKOTA DITCHEVA IS A WORLD CHAMPION.
Dakota Ditcheva proves the doubters wrong as she finishes Taila Santos in the second round to win the inaugural 2024 PFL Women’s Flyweight Championship and $1M 💰🏆#PFLWorldChampionshippic.twitter.com/H82cTElm2E
— COMBAT SPORTS TODAY (@CSTodayNews) November 29, 2024
To understand the level of this win, context is needed. Back in 2022,…
