Former UFC and Bellator MMA fighter Sabah Homasi was spectacular contained in the ring at Naked Knuckle Preventing Championship’s Tampa occasion final weekend, incomes a fast win over Eduardo Peralta within the second spherical.
The 36-year-old Homasi signed with BKFC after experiencing first-hand the fallout from the Skilled Fighters League (PFL) buying Bellator MMA late final 12 months.
“I actually referred to as it,” Homasi informed MMA Preventing. “I informed all people. I stated it earlier than it occurred. I stated this might be the worst factor to occur in MMA at present. It f*cking occurred. They did an enormous disservice to veteran fighters on their roster.
“They minimize over 100 folks. 100 excessive degree fighters. It’s like the place are these guys going to go combat?”
PFL co-founder Donn Davis promised “all of them are coming over”, that means fighters employed by Bellator MMA would combat for the PFL. That in the end didn’t occur, and lots of have been both minimize or left with out fights.
“As quickly as PFL got here into the image they usually acquired Bellator, these guys are a bunch of f*cking jokes,” Homasi stated. “They don’t know learn how to run a f*cking present. I really feel like they got here into MMA, they usually needed to change into common and be round a bunch of fighters, who the f*ck is aware of. However these guys f*cking suck. They don’t know learn how to run an MMA group. They placed on exhibits and there’s nobody within the godd*mn stands.
“I did an interview after the combat, I stated ‘pay attention my recommendation to fighters in PFL or anybody contemplating signing with PFL, get it whereas there’s nonetheless water within the effectively as a result of that f*cking effectively goes to run dry.’ That’s it.”
Homasi says that he’s nonetheless owed cash for medical payments he amassed from his closing combat in Bellator in September 2023 with PFL officers placing the duty on the previous homeowners at Paramount.
“They nonetheless owe me like $25,000, possibly extra, I’m nonetheless ready on this shit,” Homasi stated. “It’s simply loopy to me that it’s been over a 12 months. They’re making an attempt to level the finger and say that they’re not accountable for it and all this shit. You say you need to compete with the UFC. The UFC would by no means do that to any of their fighters.
“They’re making an attempt to say that [Paramount] is accountable. Motherf*ckers, you acquired an organization, you bought an organization, now you purchase all of their goddamn debt. Do what’s proper in your half. You’re paying guys f*cking hundreds of thousands of {dollars}. It’s not such as you don’t have any f*cking cash. Simply pay me this little f*cking chump change so I can get this shit off my again. That’s it however they’re items of shit. Donn Davis, all these f*cking guys.”
Within the MMA Preventing interivew Homasi additionally addressed current complaints from a number of the prime champions in Bellator together with Patricio Pitbull and Patchy Combine, who’ve gone so far as asking for a launch from the promotion attributable to lengthy durations of inactivity.
“That’s as a result of they’ll’t afford to pay these fighters,” Homasi stated. “That’s the factor, you will have all these high-level guys, you buy an organization with out even f*cking figuring out what these guys are making and that’s why they made such an enormous minimize. Now you will have your f*cking world champions sidelined and now everybody goes public with it they usually’re making bulletins as a result of they’re f*cking fed up and sick of this shit. You need fighters to renegotiate new offers since you don’t need to pay them the f*cking cash on their contract? Get the f*ck out of right here.
“Now these fighters aren’t preventing. They’re sidelined as a result of [PFL] doesn’t need to should pay the f*cking cash that they negotiated to combat with. It’s f*cking ridiculous. I’m afraid to see these guys in public as a result of I don’t even know the way I’m going to behave. These guys are items of shit.”
