Sabah Homasi is still waiting for Bellator MMA to reimburse him approximately $12,000 in medical bills nearly a year after his fight against Levan Chokheli, with the responsibility for payment caught between the former owner Paramount and the new owner PFL.
Almost exactly one year after his last appearance in Bellator MMA, Sabah Homasi is still waiting for the company to pay him back for medical bills. These expenses were incurred after injuries sustained in his battle against Levan Chokheli.
Homasi first spoke publicly about the situation on social media in April. He wrote, “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 full payment on those medical bills. Around $12,000 plus interest remains unpaid out of the $32,000 he covered.
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 unpaid medical bills, PFL co-owner Donn Davis stated that responsibility fell on Paramount. Paramount owned Bellator before selling it 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 soon as Paramount is set to be sold to Skydance Media in a massive $8 billion deal for the entertainment company.
In recent years, Paramount has struggled in the entertainment market after being hit hard by dual strikes from writers and actors that halted production for several months. 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, while all streamers still trail behind Netflix’s over 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 of when he’ll get reimbursed.