Is this the beginning of the end for the SFL?
Although no official announcement regarding the removal of these events has been made it seems probable that they have been…
Although no official announcement regarding the removal of these events has been made it seems probable that they have been cancelled which would leave the SFL with just one show booked, on September 29 in Bangalore. That card is expected to feature Satoshi Ishii vs Jimmy Ambriz and Jeff Monson vs Todd Duffee but it appears it could also be the last event the SFL ever holds.
Insiders say that SFL Challengers has already suffered a series of setbacks with Chaitanya Gavli one of a number of fighters to have walked away due to problems supposedly related to late payments. Whereas in the past the SFL brought in Dennis Hallman at huge expense in order to coach fighters costs have now been cut to the extent that the SFL was unable to afford a single established fighter to work on the ‘Challengers’ series and instead the coaches will be SFL COO Daniel Isaac, who has no MMA experience, and a female Serbian fighter called Sanja Sucevic.
Ticket sales for the first two SFL events were disastrous which led organizers to make the unprecedented decision to give tickets away for SFL 3 in Delhi. It does seem bizarre that the three events should be postponed / cancelled with so much money already invested in SFL ‘Challengers’ so perhaps there is a more mundane explanation but this looks a lot like the beginning of the end for the SFL.
