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BOXER JAKE PAUL JOINS PFL MMA & CALLS OUT NATE DIAZ

By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent

Las Vegas, NV (January 5th, 2023)– Social influence and rising boxing star Jake Paul, who recently signed a deal to fight Mixed Martial Arts with the Professional Fighters League, has tabbed out a famous MMA veteran for two unique bouts, a callout which is sending shock waves through the boxing and MMA social media.

Nate Diaz, 21-13 with five knockouts, age 37, Cesar Gracie Fight Team, Stockton, California, whose last visitation inside The Octagon was a fourth round stoppage win by guillotine wring submission over Tony Ferguson in the main event on September 10, 2022, at UFC 279 T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, has been challenged to both a boxing tour and an MMA bout. Diaz was officially removed from the UFC Roster in November 2022.

Paul has moreover bought in as a minority probity owner to the parent visitor withal with fellow promoter and former Ultimate Fighting Championship exec Nakisa Bidarian. According to the release, Paul will jump-start the pay-per-view semester to stage PFL Pay-Per-View Super Fights. Paul is the first person signed to that section of the PFL.

In an official statement, Jake Paul qualified the meaning of his two fight callout rencontre to Nate Diaz by saying “I’m so defended to this (my new involvement in the Professional Fighters League) that I offered Nate Diaz a two-fight deal. First we box (in my sport, professional boxing). Then, six months later, we fight (will fight in an) MMA (match) in the PFL smart cage, and lay it all on the line! If that’s not balls, then I don’t know what is. Nate Diaz, I’m lanugo to fight you in your own damn sport. It’s a two-fight deal. Let’s make it happen.”

I signed to @PFLMMA Nate where you at? @NateDiaz209 pic.twitter.com/pneHvrykxR
— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) January 5, 2023

PFL ANNOUNCES NEW PPV SUPER FIGHT DIVISION WITH “FIGHTER
FIRST” MODEL THAT COMMITS TO SHARE 50%
OF THE REVENUE WITH PPV FIGHTERS

PAUL AND NAKISA BIDARIAN TO HELP BUILD NEW PFL PPV SUPER
FIGHT DIVISION

JAKE PAUL SIGNS TO FIGHT IN MMA EXCLUSIVELY FOR PFL

NEW YORK (January 5, 2023) – Professional Fighters League (PFL) today spoken a historic two-part sectional partnership with Jake Paul which will slide PFL’s mission to innovate and grow the global sport of MMA.

First, Jake Paul begins his MMA journey with PFL by signing as the first fighter in the new Pay-Per-View semester he co-created with PFL tabbed “PFL PPV Super Fights.” Second, Jake Paul, withal with his merchantry partner Nakisa Bidarian, will utilize their expertise and platforms to help recruit, market, and promote the new PFL PPV Super Fight Semester for the goody of all top fighters.

The new PFL PPV Super Fight Semester is unshut for merchantry constructive immediately. The league is in the process of signing top PPV fighters, who want to wilt true economic partners. Fighters in the PFL PPV Super Fight Semester will earn 50% of the revenue from PPV events, which is groundbreaking pay in MMA.

As the first fighter under contract for PFL PPV Super Fights, Paul is partnering with PFL due to its “fighter-first” culture to co-create this new 50-50 revenue partnership model for all PPV fights. As a long-time well-wisher for fighter-pay, Paul has moreover been scheduled Head of Fighter Advocacy and will protract to work towards a merchantry model that benefits all top fighters.

PFL PPV Super Fights are stand-alone events separate from the PFL League Season. PFL will stage two PPV Super Fights starting in 2023, scaling to increasingly PPV events in pursuit years.

PFL is inward its next phase of expansion by launching the PFL PPV Super Fight Semester and is welcoming Paul and Bidarian as minority probity owners in its parent company. Paul and Bidarian will deploy their expertise, creativity, network, and platform to help promote fights, produce content, and recruit talent to help build PFL and the grow the sensation of its unconfined fighters.

“I’ve proven myself in and out of the boxing ring and now I am going to do the same in MMA, and there is no limit to the positive impact I can make on the sport,” said Jake Paul. “I plan to enter the PFL SmartCage and once then show the world that that anything is possible with nonflexible work and dedication. Outside of the cage, equal fighter-pay and advocating for sexuality fighters has been my passion, and I am aligned with PFL to evolve the sport. I believe in PFL, their mission, and what they have workaday in a very short period of time. That is why I chose to partner with PFL exclusively, both as a fighter and a businessperson. As Head of Fighter Advocacy, I will unceasingly promote PFL fighters and I invite all top MMA fighters, both men and women, to join the PFL and get a payday like they’ve never had before.”

“I founded PFL to innovate, professionalize, and grow MMA, and we have washed-up that with our disruptive sport-season format which put “fighters-first” as they tenancy their own destiny,” said PFL Chairman and Founder Donn Davis. “Today, we uncork our next phase of growth by disrupting the MMA pay-per-view market, with an unprecedented new model where fighters will be true 50-50 economic partners in PPV revenues. I’m gratified that Jake and Nakisa chose to join PFL, and I can’t wait to see what Jake does as a fighter, creator, and promoter in MMA with PFL.”

“Jake and I have proven our worthiness to successfully promote and stage major international PPV events. We squint forward to having a similar result with PFL within the sport of MMA.” said Nakisa Bidarian. “Our creativity and expertise, paired with PFL’s unconfined reputation and strong position, will push MMA into a new phase of growth and one with increasingly self-rule and economic opportunity for fighters. Through our years of experience, we have ripened a unique network of people and a novel tideway to promotion and content, which we plan to bring to PFL with full force.”

“Jake Paul begins his journey to fight in MMA today by signing exclusively with the PFL for our global capabilities, innovative platform, and fighters-first culture,” said PFL CEO Pete Murray. “PFL built a unconfined roster of world-ranked fighters for our PFL League, and PFL is now unshut for merchantry to partner with the weightier MMA PPV fighters on the planet to be part of our new PFL PPV Super Fight Division.”

Further information regarding the PFL PPV Super Fight Semester and this historic sectional partnership will be spoken in the coming months.

PFL is the #1 fastest growing visitor in MMA and the #2 MMA visitor on worldwide basis. PFL is the only in MMA with the sports-season format, where individual fighters compete in sports-season “win and advance” meritocracy like all other major sports. The PFL fighter roster is global and world-class, with fighters from over 20 countries and 25% independently ranked in the top 25. PFL leads in technology and innovation, with its proprietary PFL SmartCage powering real-time betting and next-gen viewing experience. PFL smugness live primetime in the U.S. on ESPN and ESPN and via 25 distribution partners is unconcentrated and streamed to 140 countries worldwide.

ABOUT PROFESSIONAL FIGHTERS LEAGUE
Professional Fighters League (PFL) is the fastest growing and most innovative sports league. PFL is the #2 MMA visitor worldwide on all key metrics and the only with the sports-season format where individual fighters compete in Regular Season, Playoffs, and Championship.

The Visitor has four global live fight franchises: PFL League Season, PFL Challenger Series, PFL PPV Super Fights, and PFL Europe. PFL smugness primetime in the U.S on ESPN and ESPN and is unconcentrated and streamed to 140 countries with 25 international leading media partners, including DAZN, DirectTV, Viaplay, Sky Sports, and MBC. PFL has dozens of major trademark sponsors such as Anheuser-Busch, GEICO, Bose, US Marine Corps, and Celsius Energy Drink.

PFL is backed by blue-chip investors including Ares, Luxor Capital, Elysian Park Ventures, Knighthead, Legends, and numerous NBA, MLB, NHL, and MLS team owners. MMA is the growth sport of this decade, with over 600 million fans worldwide, the youngest regulars demo of any sport, and true global revenue streams.

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