The PFL Strengthens Its World-Class Roster With Signings Of A Pair Of World Champions To The Women’s Lightweight Division

Marina Mokhnatkina and Martina Jindrova will Compete at 155 lbs. within the League’s Subsequent Season

NEW YORK (July 28, 2021) — The Skilled Fighters League (PFL), the quickest rising and most modern sports activities league, right this moment introduced the signings of two girls for his or her light-weight division. Marina Mokhnatkina and Martina Jindrova can be becoming a member of the light-weight division alongside 2019 PFL champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Kayla Harrison and can look to take a shot on the $1 million World Championship top-prize come 2022.

Mokhnatkina hails from Russia and has an in depth background in Sambo and is a six-time world champion, two-time European champion and eight-time Russian champion. The 33-year-old is a veteran of MMA with seven skilled bouts and a powerful 5-2 file. She has competed in each Struggle Nights International in her house nation in addition to Bellator in america.

Jindrova, 30, is a striker from the Czech Republic who has competed all all over the world in each Muay Thai and kickboxing. She is a former ISKA Ok-1 kickboxing champion and four-time Czech nationwide kickboxing champion. She made her transfer to MMA in 2018 and has an unblemished 3-0 file as knowledgeable.

The PFL is house to the perfect girls’s light-weight fighters on the planet. Mokhnatkina and Jindrova be a part of the league going through heavy competitors from two-time Olympic gold medalist and 2019 PFL champion Kayla Harrison, who completed each her opponents within the first spherical with little resistance. The division additionally options knockout artist Larissa Pacheco, who, throughout the common season, posted devastating knockouts over Julija Pajic, in simply 51 seconds and Olena Kolesnyk which ended up being a ESPN’s SportsCenter high 10 play of the day.

“We’re very excited to deliver two girls of this caliber into our girls’s light-weight division,” stated PFL President of Fighter Operations Ray Sefo. “The objective has been to raise our roster every year and that would be the case as soon as once more in 2022. These signings, together with others we have already got within the pipeline will present the dedication now we have to constructing an excellent stronger roster for the approaching Season.”