With no championship event in 2020, plans are underway to increase its future exposure. For 2021 and 2022, Davis said the PFL “is in discussion with four major international cities that are bidding to host the championship like a Super Bowl outside of the U.S. It’ll be a coming of age for the PFL as a major international event.”
As the championship will go global — the 2019 championship drew 400,000 on ESPN2, beating every Bellator event for the past year and earning nearly half the average UFC audience — the regular season and playoffs leading to the championship will be staged in a single destination. Part of the single-destination decision is that the PFL is not driven by ticket sales; Davis said ticketing comprises 5 percent of the league’s total revenue with media exposure (the league has 30 global partners) driving the majority of the business....
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Professional Fighters League Going Global in 2021
Having decided to be one of the few professional leagues to cancel the 2020 season outright instead of staging a modified version, the Professional Fighters League has already moved toward planning…
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