Guard your anus.
Skilled Fighters League (PFL) is making a big rule change forward of its 2025 season, legalizing elbows for normal season competitors, in addition to playoffs, bringing the promotion extra in keeping with the unified guidelines of combined martial arts (MMA).
“New yr, new changes,” PFL head cheese Donn Davis wrote on social media. “You requested for elbows, PFL MMA is supplying you with elbows! All elbows. All fights. On a regular basis. PFL MMA 2025 … COMING.”
No catches this time round.
Elbows have been initially outlawed in PFL due to the season format, the place fighters can usually compete as much as 4 occasions inside a six-month interval. Elbow strikes improve the chance of lacerations, thus stopping stitched-up combatants from taking part on schedule.
Elbows have been again within the information late final yr after the Affiliation of Boxing Commissions (ABC) lastly legalized 12-6 elbow strikes, made well-known by the Jon Jones vs. Matt Hamill debacle atop the TUF 10 Finale means again in late 2009.
PFL’s inaugural “Highway to Dubai” Champions Collection will get underway on Jan. 25.
