{"id":24047,"date":"2026-08-03T05:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=24047"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:09:09","slug":"dakota-ditcheva-admits-she-was-bothered-by-crowd-boos-during-pfl-new-york-win-i-want-to-be-exciting-and-entertaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=24047","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Ditcheva admits she was &#8216;bothered&#8217; by crowd boos during PFL New York win: &#8220;I want to be exciting and entertaining&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-label\">Trending:<\/span><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border\"\/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border-2\"\/>Colby Covington praises Arman Tsarukyan following RAF 11 match: \u201cYou\u2019re gonna be the UFC lightweight champ\u201d<span class=\"photo-credit\">PFL MMA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dakota Ditcheva was not happy that her PFL New York victory wasn\u2019t a crowd pleaser.<\/p>\n<p>Ditcheva stepped inside the SmartCage to take on Denise Kielholtz this past Friday. \u201cDangerous\u201d was a massive betting favorite going into the bout, and while she did pick up the unanimous decision win, her performance didn\u2019t exactly match the line. Kielholtz made things a bit tougher for Ditcheva than expected, which led to some moments where the action wasn\u2019t satisfying enough for those in attendance at the UBS Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Home of Fight live streamed the PFL New York post-fight media conference, and Ditcheva admitted that she didn\u2019t like the crowd boos because she prides herself on being a fun fighter (via MMAFighting).<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt bothered me,\u201d Ditcheva said. \u201cOnly because I\u2019m passionate about the work I do, and I wanted a stoppage myself. But at the same time, words from my brother and my coach will be, always, \u2018We don\u2019t care about what anybody else thinks.\u2019 It\u2019s me in there fighting. I\u2019m the one that\u2019s in there to only kind of think about the boos for one second and get knocked out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo for me, it\u2019s like, I don\u2019t want them to boo, because I want to be exciting and entertaining for you guys, but at the same time, I\u2019m in there fighting. I\u2019m not in there, like, performing a dance. So, I have to do what\u2019s right for me to get the win and come out on top, and that\u2019s what I did today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of how the fans felt, Ditcheva now improves her unblemished pro MMA record to 16-0. This is her second straight decision win after going on a nine-fight streak of finishes. Ditcheva\u2019s last finishing win was back in Nov. 2024 when she scored a second-round TKO victory over Taila Santos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you make of Dakota Ditcheva\u2019s performance at PFL New York? Did she simply have more struggles than expected against an experienced opponent, or is she not as good as advertised? Share your take in the comments below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-1 mt-0 os-source\">This article appeared first on BJPENN.COM<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/professional-fighters-league\/dakota-ditcheva-admits-she-was-bothered-by-crowd-boos-during-pfl-new-york-win-i-want-to-be-exciting-and-entertaining\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dakota-ditcheva-admits-she-was-bothered-by-crowd-boos-during-pfl-new-york-win-i-want-to-be-exciting-and-entertaining\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trending:Colby Covington praises Arman Tsarukyan following RAF 11 match: \u201cYou\u2019re gonna be the UFC lightweight champ\u201dPFL MMA Dakota Ditcheva was not happy that her PFL New York victory wasn\u2019t a crowd pleaser. Ditcheva stepped inside the SmartCage to take on Denise Kielholtz this past Friday. \u201cDangerous\u201d was a massive betting favorite going into the bout,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1474,10821,2701,3738,1998,1999,7333,4668,733,44,7100],"class_list":["post-24047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fighters","tag-admits","tag-boos","tag-bothered","tag-crowd","tag-dakota","tag-ditcheva","tag-entertaining","tag-exciting","tag-pfl","tag-win","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}