Dakota Ditcheva Wins Flyweight Battle Against Inaba by Decision

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00:00Then you also had flyweight women's battle between Dakota Ditcheva and Sumiko Inaba.

00:04Inaba, of course, was a 34-year-old Hawaiian lady samurai, former Bellator and PFL fighter,

00:09coming off a second-round ground-and-pound win over Mackenzie Stiller last September.

00:13Ditcheva, the 26-year-old Brit who now trains in the U.S.,

00:162023 PFL women's flyweight champion in Europe,

00:192024 women's flyweight champion in the PFL U.S. tournament,

00:22coming off her win over Talos Santos last November,

00:25was a big favorite and should be because we thought she'd get a second-round TKO

00:29because she's finished just about everyone, did not.

00:32She goes a distance in this one but still gets the unanimous decision win

00:35and it was just her fight and Inaba just was able to survive, really.

00:39Inaba was good early on coming forward, kind of pushing Ditcheva on the back foot a little bit,

00:43but by the middle of that round through, you know, rounds two and three,

00:48Ditcheva was able to just keep her distance, was able to push her opponent off,

00:51pick her apart.

00:52When they're in the clinch, she would use some nasty knees to the body

00:54and even grab, you know, the head and pull it down into some knees as well,

00:57throwing those elbows, just doing what she does.

01:00Credit to Inaba for, you know, lasting throughout all three rounds.

01:04But as Jimmy Smith said on the broadcast, like, sometimes when you're tough,

01:09that just means you get a longer beating and that's what happened with Inaba

01:11as Ditcheva clearly wins that fight.

01:14They said she landed something of like 154 of 172 strikes,

01:18but unfortunately now will be out for a while

01:20because while she's going to film a period piece over in Bulgaria

01:26while she would play a princess apparently, she also was injured.

01:29You know, we saw it towards the middle of that last round,

01:32her signal to her corner saying, you know, broke me hand and shaking the left hand.

01:37Confirmed that after the fight that, you know,

01:38she felt like she busted something in her left hand

01:40and was very emotional about it because, you know,

01:42she's been out for a while after winning that tournament

01:44and now is going to sit out a while again because of a hand injury.

01:46But now she is 15-0, nine of those, she had a nine-fight finish streak

01:51that now is over, gets this one by decision.

01:54Inaba is now 8-2, but a tough opponent who's going to be hanging around

01:57this flyweight division.

01:58You also had a featherweight battle, A.J. McKee versus Achmed Magomedov.

02:01Magomedov, the 30-year-old Dagestani fighter,

02:04of course, training under Nurmagomedov, who was there for multiple fighters.

02:08Magomedov had an eight-fight win streak, most of those by decision,

02:11going against McKee, the 30-year-old from California,

02:13whose last fight was against Paul Hughes, split decision loss,

02:16last October.

02:17He had a four-fight win streak that was broken before that,

02:19so looking to get back in the winning ways,

02:21the former Bellator featherweight champion,

02:22coming back down to featherweight.

02:23He had fought lightweight since April of 2022,

02:27so dropping back down to 145.

02:29Could he do it?

02:30Said he felt great, and he showed that.

02:32We thought he'd win by decision.

02:33He got the unanimous decision win,

02:34just really controlling things throughout the fight.

02:37A great job by him easily beating the Dagestani,

02:43which is not easy to do, of course.

02:44That is a great team.

02:45That is a great crew, but McKee controlled him with his grappling

02:49and even had some great striking as well to show what he is great at.

02:5323-2 now in MMA, while Magomedov is now 10-4.

02:58You also had Zyanuk versus Izumi.

03:01They're lightweight.

03:02Zyanuk, another Dagestani fighter under Nurmagomedov.

03:05He dominates Izumi, the 36-year-old Japanese fighter.

03:08He gets an easy win for him by unanimous decision.

03:10We thought he'd get the decision when he did that, but before we get out of here,

03:13we've got to talk about the beatdown that Corey Anderson put at heavyweight

03:16against Goldstaff.

03:17Goldstaff, of course, won the 2024 PFL heavyweight tournament.

03:21Anderson, the former Bellator champion, former UFC fighter,

03:23was moving up to heavyweight for the first time.

03:25We thought that'd be a problem.

03:27It was not.

03:27He gets a second-round win by ground and pound,

03:30and after Goldstaff had some early success, Anderson just took over,

03:33put him to the ground, beat him up, was able to take him down,

03:37was able to ground and pound, change position, just do what he wanted to do,

03:40just dominated the heavyweight, and he looks like he's going to be a force there.

03:43Maybe a battle for Nagano coming up soon.

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