Aaron Pico signs with UFC after a neat split with PFL

Aaron Pico, finally, can call himself an UFC fighter. The 28-year-old folk light weight completed the long-term move on Tuesday, confirmed that he did not align by raising an exclusive transaction and noting the last top talent of Bellator, which will ultimately receive the UFC after the acquisition of PFL in the Bellator list at the end of 2023.

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In the end, Pico eventually competed only once in PFL after the merger of two brands, taking revenge on Henry Correles in 2019 with a knockout of the first round of the veteran in the first round at the PFL event against Bellator in February 2024. Pico has not fought since then.

In February, Pico publicly announced his intentions to wait for contractual rights to PFL if he could not provide his way to the UFC after the conclusion of his Bellator/PFL transaction.

Pico (13-4), which was once proclaimed as one of the greatest prospects of MMA of all time, was on tears over the past half-years after the road down and down at the beginning of his professional run. A native of California won nine of his last 10 battles for this interval, and his only loss occurred in the battle in 2022 with Jeremy Kennedy, which prematurely ended between rounds from the Pico shoulder injury.

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The UFC CEO Dana White has repeatedly expressed public interest in Pico during 2025.

Pico now joins the UFC in a fifty -lightweightweight division, already inhabited by another long -standing Stalin Bellator, the former champion of Bellator Patricio Pitbull, which has passed a similar path of discontent after the acquisition of PFL in the Bellator list. Pitbull debuts in the commercial this Saturday against the former temporary champion UFC Yair Rodriguez on a card with payment for viewing UFC 314.

A proven finisher with force in his hands and a decorated wrestling background for loading, Pico finished nine of his 13 professional victories, including seven stops during his current 9-1 from 2020.