Almost exactly one year after his most recent appearance in Bellator MMA, Sabah Homasi is still waiting on the company to pay him back for medical bills after injuries sustained in his battle against Levan Chokheli.
Homasi first spoke publicly about the situation on social media in April, writing, “Any fighters that got caught up in the PFL/Bellator merger that have not been reimbursed for surgeries and hospitalization from a fight or is it just me?”
Multiple sources told MMA Fighting that Homasi is still awaiting the full payment on those medical bills, with around $12,000 still owned plus interest out of the $32,000 bill he absorbed in expenses.
PFL has not responded to MMA Fighting’s request for a statement regarding Homasi’s ongoing situation.
“I fractured my orbital. Went from the venue to the hospital so they knew everything that was wrong,” Homasi told MMA Mania back in April. “They asked me if I was going to do surgery in Ireland and I said, ‘No. I’m going to fly home and do surgery with my doctors back home.’
“I came home, we saw my doctor. I have a date for surgery, right? Next thing you know, they call my doctor and ask him if he can postpone surgery for two [to] three weeks. I said, ‘Absolutely not. I have to go and operate.’”
When addressing the situation after Homasi went public with the medical bills that remain unpaid, PFL co-owner Donn Davis stated that responsibility fell on Paramount, who owned Bellator prior to selling to PFL in late 2023.
“That was Paramount not paying,” Davis told the Weighing In podcast. “We worked to get him paid. All [that] happened before we bought it. We’re trying to stay low-key because that’s who we are. Paramount didn’t pay. We’re working to get somebody who owes him to pay him.
“A lot of these fighters and managers don’t even understand what they don’t understand. Those aren’t our bills. Those are the old company’s bills.”
Things may get even stickier in the near future as Paramount is currently set to be sold to Skydance Media in a massive $8 billion deal for the entertainment company.
In recent years, Paramount has struggled to maintain its grip on the entertainment market after the company was hit hard in the wake of duel strikes from writers and actors that brought production to a halt for several months. Paramount’s streaming service Paramount+ has also failed to gain as much traction as competitors, with 71.2 million users compared to Max from Warner Bros. Discovery with 99.6 million subscribers as of May, with all streamers still playing catch-up to Netflix’s more than 277 million subscribers worldwide.
Sadly, while Paramount found a lifeline with the sale expected to Skydance Global, Homasi is still stuck waiting for payment for his medical bills with no indication on when he’ll get reimbursed.
