PFL co-owner Donn Davis has made a bold claim about the cost of the promotion’s “Battle of the Giants” pay-per-view event.
The card is headlined by a heavyweight title fight between champion Renan Ferreira and former UFC champ Francis Ngannou on Oct. 19 at The Mayadeen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Davis said the cost of this event will exceed this past Saturday’s UFC 306 event at Sphere in Las Vegas.
“First of all, I believe this is the biggest event possible in MMA because of the (main and co-main events) this year, 2024,” Davis told the New York Post. “That makes it certainly the biggest thing for the PFL. The UFC is the bigger company, and we’re putting on the bigger event. So this is a big deal for us. Our No. 1 metric is putting on the highest-quality MMA fight for fans in the world.
“We want to show fans that we can put on just as good, or better, of a product for them than anyone in the world. That’s metric No. 1. Metric No. 2 is we want to do OK financially. The cost of this fight is astronomical. Dana White talks about his $20 million Sphere event; this is more. Fighters here make more. The card here has more big fights coming. This cost to us is more than his cost to the Sphere.”
The card will also feature a women’s featherweight title bout between champion Larissa Pacheco and Cris Cyborg, as well as notables such as Bellator middleweight champion Johnny Eblen, and A.J. McKee.
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for PFL: Battle of the Giants.
