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"The Marauder" Tyler King is on a quick turnaround to give his co-host a history lesson as we do a deep dive on the PFL. It was incredible how the company came together and even more impressive how they found ways to be different from UFC.
The World Series of Fighting launched in 2012 shortly after UFC purchased Strikeforce, their primary competition who had a deal to for events to appear the now defunct NBC Sports Network.
Tyler explains how the WSOF and its assets were purchased by an investment group out of Virginia in 2017. Donn Davis stayed on as owner and founder while CEO Carlos Silva and Rey Sefo joined as president before the 2018 season after restructuring.
Former UConn alum Jim Tucker is the Senior Vice President of Global Brand Partnership, we are looking forward to talking with him. PFL is the first MMA company to have a league model with a regular season, playoffs, and championships rounds.
After watching my first PFL event last weekend, I was hooked. It's not only about wins and losses, but they also award points based on a system of how fights are finished, along with what round it occurs. Instead of an Octagon, they compete in a Super Cage which has 10 sides.
Non-stop action, faster paced, and you see more aggression. UFC at times, fighters will go up on points early and adopt a not to lose strategy rather than going for the win.
The purchase of Bellator was huge and a series of events will take place in the fall. Tyler has competed in all 3 major promotions and said PFL's roster has top young talent. He also said PFL signing UFC Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou was a game changer showing PFL has deeper pockets than most critics believed. Ngannou had two high profile boxing matches but is expected to face whoever wins the PFL Heavyweight Championship.
Tyler was an excellent teacher even though he made fun of me for sounding like Bob Costas. I am excited for the rest of the summer to watch PFL events, I love the action and sense of urgency of each fight.
