Virtually precisely one yr after his most up-to-date look in Bellator MMA, Sabah Homasi continues to be ready on the corporate to pay him again for medical payments after accidents sustained in his battle in opposition to Levan Chokheli.
Homasi first spoke publicly in regards to the scenario on social media in April, writing, “Any fighters that bought caught up within the PFL/Bellator merger that haven’t been reimbursed for surgical procedures and hospitalization from a battle or is it simply me?”
A number of sources advised MMA Preventing that Homasi continues to be awaiting the complete fee on these medical payments, with round $12,000 nonetheless owned plus curiosity out of the $32,000 invoice he absorbed in bills.
PFL has not responded to MMA Preventing’s request for an announcement relating to Homasi’s ongoing scenario.
“I fractured my orbital. Went from the venue to the hospital so that they knew all the pieces that was unsuitable,” Homasi advised MMA Mania again in April. “They requested me if I used to be going to do surgical procedure in Eire and I stated, ‘No. I’m going to fly dwelling and do surgical procedure with my medical doctors again dwelling.’
“I got here dwelling, we noticed my physician. I’ve a date for surgical procedure, proper? Subsequent factor you recognize, they name my physician and ask him if he can postpone surgical procedure for 2 [to] three weeks. I stated, ‘Completely not. I’ve to go and function.’”
When addressing the scenario after Homasi went public with the medical payments that stay unpaid, PFL co-owner Donn Davis said that duty fell on Paramount, who owned Bellator previous to promoting to PFL in late 2023.
“That was Paramount not paying,” Davis advised the Weighing In podcast. “We labored to get him paid. All [that] occurred earlier than we purchased it. We’re making an attempt to remain low-key as a result of that’s who we’re. Paramount didn’t pay. We’re working to get any individual who owes him to pay him.
“Numerous these fighters and managers don’t even perceive what they don’t perceive. These aren’t our payments. These are the outdated firm’s payments.”
Issues could get even stickier within the close to future as Paramount is at the moment set to be offered to Skydance Media in a large $8 billion deal for the leisure firm.
Lately, Paramount has struggled to take care of its grip on the leisure market after the corporate was hit arduous within the wake of duel strikes from writers and actors that introduced manufacturing to a halt for a number of months. Paramount’s streaming service Paramount+ has additionally failed to realize as a lot traction as rivals, with 71.2 million customers in comparison with Max from Warner Bros. Discovery with 99.6 million subscribers as of Could, with all streamers nonetheless taking part in catch-up to Netflix’s greater than 277 million subscribers worldwide.
Sadly, whereas Paramount discovered a lifeline with the sale anticipated to Skydance World, Homasi continues to be caught ready for fee for his medical payments with no indication on when he’ll get reimbursed.
