Prior to Friday's PFL Championships, British fighter Ditcheva was largely untested. She proved her mettle with a second-round stoppage victory, earning a No. 7 ranking in Sherdog’s pound-for-pound update. Additionally, Cristiane Justino and Valentina Shevchenko both secured significant wins within the promotion.
Prior to Friday, the British muay thai stylist was a heavily promoted but largely untested commodity looking to make a name under the Professional Fighters League banner. At the PFL Championships, Ditcheva brushed the skeptics aside with a dominant second-round stoppage victory againstin the evening’s co-main event at King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sherdog’s divisional and pound-for-pound rankings are compiled by a panel of Sherdog.com staff members and contributors: Tristen Critchfield, Mike Fridley, Brian Knapp, Ben Duffy, Jay Pettry, Marcelo Alonso, Keith Shillan, Tyler Treese, Sayan Nag and Robert Sargent.
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