Britain’s Dakota Ditcheva will make her return from a hand damage when she faces Dutch flyweight Denise Kielholtz in Dubai on 7 February.
Ditcheva broke her hand during her win over Sumiko Inaba in July because the unbeaten 27-year-old gained her fifteenth successive bout.
The battle towards Inaba was Ditcheva’s first since winning the PFL’s 2024 flyweight tournament the place she grew to become the primary British lady to turn out to be an MMA world champion.
She has stopped 13 of her 15 opponents, profitable 12 of them by knockout, constructing a fame as one among Britain’s most enjoyable fighters.
In 36-year-old Kielholtz, Ditcheva is going through a former kickboxing world champion who has gained eight of her 13 skilled fights.
The bout types a part of the PFL’s Highway to Dubai occasion which is headlined by Russian Usman Nurmagomedov’s light-weight title defence towards Britain’s Alfie Davis.
Like Ditcheva, Davis is a PFL tournament-winner with the 33-year-old triumphing on this 12 months’s light-weight bracket, earlier than securing a title shot towards Nurmagomedov.
The PFL’s welterweight belt will even be on the road on the Coca-Cola Area as Ramazan Kuramagomedov defends the belt towards fellow Russian Shamil Musaev within the co-main occasion.
