Logan Storley on Going Back to Basics – and What His Three Losses Say Ahead of 2025 PFL Season

It’d be easy to look at logan Storley’s Resume on Paper and Assign Him The Old MMA ADAGE that he’s had an “up-and-down run” of Late.

After A 11-0 Start to His Career, Including A 6-0 Start in Bellator, Storley Lost A Split Call to Yaroslav Amosov in a Pandemic-Era Fight. But Just Three Bouts Later, He Found HimSelf in An Interim Title Fight – and with Hardh Hardware AROUND HIS WAIST WITH A SPLIT DECISION OVING Michael Page.

HE MET AMOSOV AGAIN IN A WELTERWEIGHT TITLE UNIFIER, TUOUGH, AND AGAIN CAME UP SHORT. Once Bellator Transitioned to the Pfl, Storley Hopped in the 2024 $ 1 Million Season As An Early Favorite to Win It All. But Shamil Musaev Knocked Him Out in A Stunning Result 11 Months Ago. And WHEN HE bounced Back Later in the Season, It Wasn’s to Make the Playoffs.

SO TRUE, 5-3 with TWO TITLE FIGHT LOSSES IS “UP AND DOWN” OF LATE. But Is Done Noting to Curb Storley’s Enthusiasm for What He Thinks He Can Do in 2025 in the Pfl, Who He’ll Take A New Shot at a Welterweight Crown.

“My Three Losses Are Amosov Twice-at the Time, he was undefeated at 26-0-and the other one was was musaev, who was was 20-0-0. My Three Losses Were. We’re Right there, ”Storley told mma junkie radio.

“We’ve Made a Lot of Strides. I was not Happy with the Way I performs Last Season. That First Loss, Obviously He’s A Very, Very Good Guy. We Just Made. Went Back to Drilling Basics and Adding New Things and Being Ready to Show The New Me and Have The Little Things Really, Really Refined – and Be Great at Those Things. ”

Storley (16-3) Will Put Those Refinements to the Test Against Magomed Umalatav (17-1) in the Opening Round of the Pfl’s 2025 Welterweight Tournament. It’s No Longer A Sity in WHICH HE’ll Be Fighting for Points and A Playoff Spot. It’s Single Elimination, SO HE HAS TO WIN NOW WHEN WHY MEET April 3 in Orlando, Fla.

Storley Wrestled CollegiaTely at the University of Minnesota, WHERE HE WAS A Four-Time Ncaa Division-I All-Emerican. Early On His Career, He MOSTLY WAS Associated with Being A Protege of Sorts for Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar, Who Acted As A Mennor For High School.

But Soon Into His Mma Career, IT Was Evident Had Little Issue with The Transition from Wrestling to An Expanded Combat Sports Pursuit. And he Knew he was on the right path because if he wrestled his whale life, he Knew It Was for the Love of the Game.

“Obvioously, we’re prize fighters. We compete for money and we all have families and people to Provide for,” Storley Said. “But i gues for me is really, Really Cementing and Cashing the Goal of Being The Greatest. You didn’t get into wrestling for money – you got a scholarship (to college). COLLEGE, THAT’S A HUGE THING TO GET. Pursuit, to be the best. ”

That’s The Mentality Storley Will Take Into His Fight with Umalatav, Who Trains at American Top Team – The Unioficial South Florida Training Rivaly of Storley’s Home at Kill.

AT 32, Storley Has Tasted The Mountaintop and Is Hopeful He’ll Get Back there, if only so it halps his place in history.

“IT’s A Journey,” He Said. “That’s Something I’ve Been Very Blessed in My Fighting Career to Be Taken Care of. I’ve Had Great Fights and Got to Make Money. Now Is It Really Cement My Legacy and Put the Greatest Perform. Fighting, and Be Happy That When I’M Ready to Be Done, That I Can Look Back and I Gave It 100 Percent Effort the Whole Time. ”