The PFL will institute several changes in 2025, including a complete overhaul of its signature "season" format, as well discontinuing the promotion of separate events under the Bellator MMA banner, the company it acquired in 2023.

PFL MMA has released an official statement addressing the future branding of Bellator. PFL acquired the Bellator brand and its roster of fighters in November 2023.

The end of Bellator was imminent after PFL acquired it in late 2023. Uncrowned's Ariel Helwani reported Monday on "The Ariel Helwani Show" that the Bellator brand is officially "dead." It will now be known as the "PFL Champions Series,

Professional Fighters League (PFL) is expected to terminate the Bellator MMA brand and absorb the remaining talent roughly one year after acquiring the rival promotion.

Bellator as we know it is gone and a new PFL is heading your way in 2025. That is the news that was reported this afternoon by Ariel Helwani. Helwani reported on his show that Bellator will cease to exist as we know it and after this month’s lightweight title fight between Usman Nurmagomedov and Paul Hughes,