{"id":291506,"date":"2023-09-27T14:34:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=291506"},"modified":"2023-09-27T14:34:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:34:25","slug":"pfl-star-dakota-ditcheva-talks-paris-card-and-dublin-final-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/pfl-star-dakota-ditcheva-talks-paris-card-and-dublin-final-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL star Dakota Ditcheva talks Paris card and Dublin final dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>EXCLUSIVE: PFL star Dakota Ditcheva talks Paris card, Dublin dreams and working to be a &#8216;complete fighter&#8217; &#8211; as British star admits she&#8217;d &#8216;love&#8217; to fight new PFL recruit Amanda Serrano<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>British star Dakota Ditcheva will star in PFL&#8217;s Paris semi-finals on September 30<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ahead of her fight with Cornelia Holm, the flyweight revealed all to Mail Sport\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mail Sport&#8217;s new WhatsApp Channel: Get the breaking news and exclusives here\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PFL star Dakota Ditcheva has revealed that she has her sights set on a super-fight with Amanda Serrano after this weekend&#8217;s Paris semi-finals on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ditcheva, 25, will take on Sweden&#8217;s Cornelia Holm in a flyweight bout &#8211; with the hopes of extending her professional record to 9-0 and booking her place at Dublin&#8217;s finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be no easy task for the British star, who has already made a name for herself within the PFL after three finishes from her opening three fights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And, ahead of her fight with Holm, the 25-year-old has insisted that she feels &#8216;ready to go&#8217; ahead of the action at the Zenith.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to <span>Mail Sport<\/span>, Ditcheva revealed: &#8216;Yeah, I&#8217;m excited! I feel like at this point now, the last couple of weeks, it drags out a bit. But I&#8217;m ready to go. Training has gone really well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/11\/75886919-12509783-image-a-4_1695811509253.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>British star Dakota Ditcheva (pictured) will feature in this weekend&#8217;s PFL Paris semi-finals<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/11\/75886917-12509783-image-m-8_1695811545623.jpg\" height=\"380\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/11\/75886915-12509783-image-a-9_1695811550965.jpg\" height=\"380\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>The PFL flyweight star will be hoping to build on her 8-0 record when she takes to the cage<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;I&#8217;m still here in the States at the moment, in\u00a0<\/span>Florida<span>, (as I) finished off my camp. I&#8217;ll be home next week and I think it&#8217;ll get a little bit more real then. And then when I get to Paris, it&#8217;ll be exciting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;(Camp has) gone really well. I&#8217;ve been able to get here for a full camp. Normally when I get to ATT, there&#8217;s always something that gets in the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Whereas this time, I&#8217;ve been able to come out for a full 8-9 weeks and I feel like I got into a proper routine this time. So, it&#8217;s probably one of my best camps that I&#8217;ve had&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Ditcheva will come up against one of the most formidable opponents of her career &#8211; with Holm having 11 professional MMA bouts under her belt, as well as being a veteran in the amateur scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You can&#8217;t ever underestimate anyone,&#8217; Ditcheva explained. &#8216;She&#8217;s experienced. She&#8217;s fought for a lot of good promotions. She&#8217;s not a mug.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And I think people sometimes look at a record and see that it&#8217;s not as good as mine&#8230; but it doesn&#8217;t really mean anything sometimes. So I&#8217;ll never underestimate her.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/11\/75886909-12509783-image-a-10_1695811581385.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ditcheva has recorded two KO wins and one submission win since joining the organisation<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/11\/75887243-12509783-image-a-12_1695811650716.jpg\" height=\"638\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The PFL star has been preparing in Florida ahead of her\u00a0 match-up with Holm on Saturday night<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She seems like a good striker so I&#8217;m expecting her to come out and have a good fight&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>While Ditcheva warned of her rival&#8217;s abilities, the British star will be well aware of how impressive her own track record in the PFL has been.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In her opening three fights in the organisation, the 25-year-old has two wins via KO and one submission win &#8211; which came in her last fight against\u00a0Malin Hermansson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Striking will always be my favourite but I need to be a complete fighter. To be the best in the world, I&#8217;ve got to be good at everything in the sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So that&#8217;s maybe where the submission came from. I was working on that a little bit more to catch up to my striking. All round, I&#8217;m just trying to progress in all areas in the moment&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Ditcheva secured the win over Hermansson back in March during PFL&#8217;s Newcastle show and has been working tirelessly to keep honing her skills inside the cage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was straight back in the gym learning. Maybe it wasn&#8217;t as intense, as I didn&#8217;t have a fight in that period, but I was back in the gym and working on new things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Soon as I came here, I was straight into camp and got my conditioning going. It&#8217;s all been 100% all the way&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/11\/75886911-12509783-image-a-11_1695811608239.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has insisted that she&#8217;s working to become a &#8216;complete fighter&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since Ditcheva arrived in the PFL in July 2022, the promotion have gone on to secure a number of big-name fighters and analysts &#8211; such as Francis Ngannou, Jake Paul and Dan Hardy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On top of those, the likes of successful boxers Amanda Serrano, Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall have all signed multi-year deals with the PFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Even I&#8217;m surprised sometimes with the announcements!,&#8217; Ditcheva admitted. &#8216;When I see some of them, like Ngannou or Savannah Marshall or Claressa (Shields), announcing that their back to do an MMA fight&#8230; it&#8217;s amazing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think it&#8217;s really good. They&#8217;re doing at a super league, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to see what they do with that. It&#8217;s good that they&#8217;re getting the attention. I don&#8217;t know what organisation has grown as quick as this. Our Paris show in September is sold out, everyone&#8217;s struggling to get tickets. Just to see how well they&#8217;re doing is amazing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;ve just signed Amanda Serrano and she&#8217;s my weight! I&#8217;m up for anything. I love to fight. Once I&#8217;ve done this tournament, I don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;ll say to me&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/12\/75888331-12509783-image-a-13_1695812854836.jpg\" height=\"446\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ditcheva admitted that she&#8217;s keen to organise a fight with boxing star Amanda Serrano (above)<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the Paris card, Ditcheva&#8217;s close friend Simeon Powell will be competing in the light heavy-weight semi-final against Abdellah Er Ramy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old boasts an impressive 8-0 record in his professional career and Ditcheva remained confident that &#8216;Smooth&#8217; will cruise to victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re like a little duo. We carried that first show in March and I feel like us two, as a duo from the UK&#8230; definitely bigging up that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So I&#8217;m hoping that he gets the job done and we both get to this journey in Ireland all over again&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12509783\/PFL-star-Dakota-Ditcheva-talks-Paris-card-Dublin-dreams-working-complete-fighter-British-star-admits-shed-love-fight-new-PFL-recruit-Amanda-Serrano.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: PFL star Dakota Ditcheva talks Paris card, Dublin dreams and working to be a &#8216;complete fighter&#8217; &#8211; as British star admits she&#8217;d &#8216;love&#8217; to fight new PFL recruit Amanda Serrano British star Dakota Ditcheva will star in PFL&#8217;s Paris semi-finals on September 30 Ahead of her fight with Cornelia Holm, the flyweight revealed all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PFL star Dakota Ditcheva talks Paris card and Dublin final dreams - Sports Life Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/pfl-star-dakota-ditcheva-talks-paris-card-and-dublin-final-dreams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PFL star Dakota Ditcheva talks Paris card and Dublin final dreams - Sports Life Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EXCLUSIVE: PFL star Dakota Ditcheva talks Paris card, Dublin dreams and working to be a &#8216;complete fighter&#8217; 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