MMA star suffers horror eye injury and pulled out of PFL Europe’s $100,000 finale fight to crown Brit champ
MMA star Dakota Ditecheva was crowned the PFL Europe champion after leaving her opponent unable to see.
The flyweight faced Italian Valentina Scatizzi in the $100,000 winner-take-all finale fight in Dublin.
MMA star Valentina Scatizzi’s horror eye injury
Both women had progressed into the last two having won their quarter and semi-final bouts.
But the final lasted only a round after Ditcheva left Scatizzi’s eye completely shut with swelling.
The cageside doctor was left with no choice but to instruct the referee to wave off the contest.
That was despite desperate and brave pleas from Scatizzi to somehow manage to fight on.
It saw Ditcheva crowned PFL Europe’s first female champion and $100,000 prize winner.
She said: “I could see she couldn’t see out of it the last 30 seconds.
“I’m suprised they didn’t stop it straight away, that’s what I was pointing at.
“There was no way the doctor was letting her out with that eye.”
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Ditcheva could now enter the PFL’s $1m-winning global season or take on Bellator stars set to merge with the PFL roster.
She said: “Give me whoever you want get me to fight wherever you want.
“I’ll stay in Europe, I’ll go to America. I’ll clean them all out just give them to me one by one.”
