Taila Santos
2024 PFL Championship: Dakota Ditcheva stops ex-UFC title challenger Taila Santos to win title, $1 million prize
Dakota Ditcheva just shut up a lot of critics, while also winning a major championship belt and a million dollars. That’s right. Ditcheva stopped former UFC title challenger Taila Santos in dominant fashion in the co-main event of 2024 PFL Championship, which took place Friday at King Saud University...
2024 PFL Playoffs 1 video: Dakota Ditcheva bundles Jena Bishop, goes off during post-fight interview
Dakota Ditcheva is one win away from the $1 million prize. Friday at PFL Playoffs 1, Ditcheva (13-0) finished opponent Jena Bishop (7-2) with a big knee and punches to advance to the women’s flyweight final against former UFC title challenger Taila Santos. The stoppage came at 3:54 of...
Taila Santos surprised by 2024 PFL 4 win over Jena Bishop: ‘I wasn’t expecting her to be as good’
Taila Santos admits she might’ve underestimated her opponent this past Thursday at 2024 PFL 4. The former UFC title challenger fought and defeated Jena Bishop by split decision. Santos (21-3) had plenty of success in the first two rounds, but then was pushed in the grappling department by Bishop...
MMA Junkie’s Submission of the Month for April: One former UFC champ makes another tap for the first time
With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submissions from April 2024: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Submission of the Month award for April. At the bottom of the post, let us know...
Taila Santos expects Valentina Shevchenko to lose Alexa Grasso trilogy bout: ‘I think her time is passing’
Taila Santos knows a thing or two about the elite in the UFC women’s flyweight division, and she thinks Alexa Grasso is here to stay as champion. Santos, a former UFC women’s flyweight title challenger and now PFL fighter, doesn’t think Valentina Shevchenko will regain her title in her...
2024 PFL 1 video: Former UFC title challenger Taila Santos makes quick work of Ilara Joanne in debut
The UFC’s subtraction seems to have been quite the addition for PFL. At 2024 PFL 1 on Thursday, former UFC title challenger Taila Santos made her promotional debut and dispatched Ilara Joanne with a rear-naked choke for the stoppage at 3:57 of Round 1. The flyweight fight took place...
Erin Blanchfield: Taila Santos ‘well-rounded, but I don’t think she’s necessarily dangerous’
Erin Blanchfield will get a big step up in competition next, and she’s ready for it. Blanchfield (10-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) draws former title challenger Taila Santos (19-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) on Feb. 18 at a UFC Fight Night event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Coming off a dominant...
UFC 275 ‘Embedded,’ No. 6: ‘It’s go time!’
The UFC heads to Singapore on Saturday for its sixth pay-per-view of the year, which means the “Embedded” fight-week video series is back to document what’s happening behind the scenes. UFC 275 takes place at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on...
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