Hi there. How are you doing? It's the 16th of May 2023. It's time for some instant

reaction. Some, well, the news broke, I guess, a couple of hours ago, a few hours ago at

this point, but we want to react to it as best we could. A couple of introductions. Hi,

everyone. Welcome to morning combats. I would say supplementary complimentary program.

My name is Luke Thomas. I'm, of course, just one half of your hosting duo. I'm in

Washington DC. Brian Campbell is being lazy today and didn't want to contribute on his

day off. Also, my day off, Brian. What do you think about that? Okay. Neither here nor

there. We have a lot to get to today. So here's what we're going to talk about. I know

that Francis and Ghanu was going to speak later today. I believe with Erie Hawaii on

his program on MMA fighting, but the news is basically already out. New York Times broke

it first. We have some already updated supplemental coverage, which I want to get to, but Francis

in Ghanu has signed with the PFL. That is now official. At this point, I can only discuss

the details that have been made public, but they're already pretty big. So here's the

deal. You have to understand it in three different parts. There are sort of three prongs to the

deal as best I can tell. Number one, Francis is going to be fighting exclusively in the

PFLs, what they call a pay review, super fight division. Now, the catch to that is that

won't start until mid 2024. I want to get to some of the good things about this deal

and some of the bad things about this deal. But for now, let me sort of state the terms.

So that is the first part. I'll be fighting on pay review beginning in 2024 for the PFL

and what they call their super fight division. Number two, Francis, it will now sit as the

first active fighter on what they call the PFL's global advisory board, which represents

the interests of other active fighters. I guess there are retired fighters on that board.

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