{"id":41114,"date":"2026-10-16T23:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Jena-Bishop-survives-Liz-Carmouche-wins-PFL-title-in-revenge-fight-203251"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:57:12","slug":"jena-bishop-survives-liz-carmouche-wins-pfl-title-in-revenge-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/jena-bishop-survives-liz-carmouche-wins-pfl-title-in-revenge-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Jena Bishop survives Liz Carmouche, wins PFL title in revenge fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dakota Ditcheva and Jena Bishop face off in
\nthe SmartCage after the PFL Women’s Flyweight World Championship \ud83c\udf7f
\n#PFLChicago | Main Card LIVE NOW on ESPN 2
\nhttps:\/\/t.co\/ysS4fjjyVX<\/p>\n

\u2014 PFL (@PFLMMA)
\nOctober 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In August 2025 at the
\nProfessional Fighters League<\/a> World Tournament Finals, Jena Bishop<\/a>
\nwas stopped by Liz
\nCarmouche<\/a> in the third round. Since then, she has maintained
\nthat the stoppage was premature and vowed to avenge the loss.<\/p>\n

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In the main event of Friday\u2019s
\nPFL Chicago<\/a> 2 at Wintrust Arena, Bishop did just that. She
\nsurvived a punishing opening round and outlasted Carmouche (26-9)
\nin a back-and-forth battle to capture the vacant PFL women\u2019s
\nflyweight championship.<\/p>\n

Jena Bishop avenges Liz Carmouche loss with 48-47 decision at
\nPFL Chicago 2<\/h2>\n

Carmouche rocked Bishop with punches in the first and dominated the
\nrest of the round with ground-and-pound, earning 10-8 scores from
\nall three unofficial Sherdog scorers. But Bishop (12-3) recovered
\nand used her grappling to neutralize Carmouche for much of the
\nremaining four rounds. Carmouche had to defend takedowns and
\nsubmission attempts but continued to damage Bishop on the feet. Bishop took Carmouche down midway through the fifth and pursued a
\nrear-naked choke, but \u201cGirl-Rilla\u201d survived until the final bell.
\nAll three judges scored the fight 48-47 for Bishop. None awarded
\nCarmouche a 10-8 first round.<\/p>\n

Gabriel
\nBraga<\/a> lost a split decision to Timur
\nKhizriev<\/a> in their first meeting in 2024, a fight the Brazilian
\nbelieved he won. He sought a different result in the PFL Chicago 2
\nco-main event but again came up short on the scorecards.<\/p>\n

Braga (17-4) hurt Khizriev with a left hook in the first, then
\ndropped him twice with punches in the second. Khizriev (19-0)
\nrecovered, and the featherweights continued trading strikes, both
\nbloodied by the final bell. All three unofficial Sherdog scorers
\nfavored Braga 29-28. One official judge agreed, but the other two
\nscored it 29-28 for Khizriev, giving him another split decision
\nvictory.<\/p>\n

Sarvarjon
\nKhamidov<\/a> strengthened his case for a PFL bantamweight title
\nshot by knocking out Rafael
\ndo Nascimento<\/a> in the first round. The Tajik fighter dropped Do
\nNascimento (13-4) with a
\nshort left hook and followed with hammerfists until the Brazilian
\nlost consciousness<\/a><\/strong>. The finish came at 1:49, improving
\nKhamidov to 18-1.<\/p>\n

Oualy
\nTandia<\/a> earned a unanimous decision over J.P. Saint
\nLouis<\/a> in their 173-pound catchweight bout. Tandia landed the
\ncleaner strikes and largely controlled the pace, while Saint Louis
\n(12-6) found success with takedowns. Tandia (6-0) prevailed by
\nscores of 29-28, 29-28 and 30-27.<\/p>\n

Eliezer
\nKubanza<\/a> overwhelmed Trey Waters<\/a>
\nwith punches for a first-round stoppage. Kubanza (10-1) dropped
\nWaters,
\nthen sent him back to the canvas after the American regained his
\nfeet<\/a><\/strong>. Follow-up punches ended the welterweight bout at
\n1:36, dropping Waters to 10-3.<\/p>\n

Emiliano
\nSordi<\/a> recovered from a difficult opening round to stop Abraham
\nBably<\/a> with a barrage of punches in the second. Sordi (28-14-1)
\n
\nhurt Bably and continued attacking with punches and knees until his
\nopponent collapsed along the fence<\/a><\/strong>. The light
\nheavyweight bout ended at 3:13 of Round 2, dropping Bably to
\n8-4.<\/p>\n

Lightweight contender Kevin Pease<\/a>
\nimproved to 9-0 with a first-round submission of Cassio
\nBarao<\/a>. \u201cSweet Pea\u201d
\nworked his way to Barao\u2019s back and secured a rear-naked
\nchoke<\/a><\/strong>, forcing the Brazilian (10-2-1) to tap at
\n3:28.<\/p>\n

After absorbing heavy damage in the opening round, Shannon
\nClark<\/a> rallied to stop Lucero
\nAcosta<\/a> in the third. As Acosta (6-3) tired, Clark (9-1)
\nincreased her pressure and took control on the ground.
\n
\nElbows and punches from top position<\/a><\/strong> prompted referee
\nKevin
\nMacDonald<\/a> to intervene at 1:59.<\/p>\n

Gamid
\nKhizriev<\/a> dominated Michael
\nBoylan<\/a> (6-2) on the ground en route to a first-round technical
\nknockout. Khizriev (8-0) secured early takedowns, advanced through
\ndominant positions and
\nfinished with punches and elbows<\/a><\/strong>, prompting referee
\nNick
\nCimmarusti<\/a> to stop the fight at 3:04.<\/p>\n

Bantamweight prospect Cobey Fehr<\/a>
\nsubmitted Rosario
\nRomero<\/a> in 58 seconds. Fehr (5-0) secured a takedown,
\n
\ntook Romero\u2019s back and applied a rear-naked choke that rendered his
\nopponent unconscious<\/a><\/strong>. Romero fell to 4-1.<\/p>\n

Lightweight prospect Levan
\nKhabalaev<\/a> stopped Brock Hamer<\/a>
\nin 61 seconds. Khabalaev (7-0)
\ndropped Hamer with punches and continued attacking with knees and
\npunches along the fence to force the stoppage<\/a><\/strong>. Hamer
\nfell to 5-2.<\/p>\n

Paulina
\nWisniewska<\/a> improved to 8-1 with a unanimous decision over
\nfellow flyweight Chelsea
\nHackett<\/a> (5-4-1). All three judges scored the fight 29-28.<\/p>\n

Noah
\nHermosillo<\/a> opened the preliminary card with a third-round
\ntechnical knockout of Caden Cox<\/a>
\n(2-1). After two competitive rounds, Hermosillo (2-0)
\n
\ndropped Cox with a kick to the body and finished with punches at
\n1:43<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dakota Ditcheva and Jena Bishop face off in the SmartCage after the PFL Women’s Flyweight World Championship \ud83c\udf7f #PFLChicago | Main Card LIVE NOW on ESPN 2 https:\/\/t.co\/ysS4fjjyVX \u2014 PFL (@PFLMMA) October 17, 2026 In August 2025 at the Professional Fighters League World Tournament Finals, Jena Bishop was stopped by Liz Carmouche in the third […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}