By The Numbers: Dakota Ditcheva vs. Jena Bishop

Two victories separate Dakota Ditcheva and Jena Bishop from a Professional Fighters League championship and a life-altering seven-figure windfall.

They will toe the line against one another when their women’s flyweight semifinal serves as the PFL 7 co-headliner on Friday at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, with the winner moving on to face either Taila Santos or Liz Carmouche for $1 million later this year. American Top Team’s Ditcheva has rattled off 12 straight wins to start her career, emerging as one of the PFL’s top homegrown talents. She turned away Chelsea Hackett and Lisa Mauldin during the regular season. Bishop, meanwhile, went 1-1 in her two regular-season assignments. The accomplished Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt finds herself on the rebound for the first time as a pro following her split decision setback to Santos a little more than a month ago.

As Ditcheva and Bishop make final preparations for their looming showdown a 125 pounds, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this point:

26: Years of age for Ditcheva, who was born in Sale, England—a town of some 55,000 people on the outskirts of Manchester—on July 25, 1988.

10: Ditcheva victories by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 84% of her career total (12). Her list of PFL victims: Hackett, Lisa Mauldin, Valentina Scatizzi, Cornelia Holm, Katherine Corogenes and Hassna Gaber. Ditcheva holds one other victory by submission (8%) and another by decision (8%).

9: First-round finishes on the Ditcheva resume, highlighted by her 58-second rout of the aforementioned Gaber at PFL 9 in August 2022.

6: Countries in which Ditcheva has competed as a mixed martial artist. In addition to a 5-0 mark in her native England, she has gone 3-0 in the United States, 1-0 in Canada, 1-0 in the United Arab Emirates, 1-0 in France and 1-0 in Ireland.

.515: Cumulative winning percentage between the 12 women Ditcheva has defeated. They sport a combined record of 51-48-1. Simone da Silva owns the most victories (eight) of anyone she has beaten, while Patricia Borges Fernandes has been saddled with the most losses (seven).

38: Years of age for Bishop, who was born on Feb. 22, 1986 in St. Charles, Missouri, roughly 1,850 miles from where she now trains at Alliance Jiu-Jitsu in San Diego.

4: Bishop wins by submission, accounting for 57% of her career total. Her methods of choice: two armbars and two rear-naked chokes. Biship holds three other wins by decision (43%).

122: Seconds needed for Bishop to put away Olivia Beeskau with a rear-naked choke at a Legacy Fighting Alliance event on Oct. 21, 2022. Nearly two years later, it remains her quickest stoppage to date.

3: Promotions for which Bishop has plied her mixed martial arts trade. She has gone 4-0 in the LFA, 2-0 in Bellator MMA and 1-0 in the PFL.

.599: Cumulative winning percentage between the seven women Bishop has beaten. They boast a combined record of 42-28-1. Ilara Joanne owns the most victories (12) and losses (nine) of anyone she has defeated.