Louis Taylor says life changes after winning $1 million in PFL playoffs

LAS VEGAS – Louis Taylor became a millionaire when he won the PFL’s playoff final, which naturally drew plenty of people from out of the woodwork.

Taylor won the middleweight playoffs in 2018 with four wins and a draw en route to the $1 million prize.

And how has life changed for Taylor since then? People started reaching out to him, but at least it taught him who the truly genuine people were.

“You get a lot of cousins, a lot of collect calls from the county,” Taylor said earlier this month at a Dominance MMA media day in Las Vegas. “But the good part is, I kept my circle clean. When you’re focused, like most of us up here are, on your path, you could see the snakes coming. And everybody around you has been there and be there to support you. So people who are in it to be a leech, you could see it coming easily if your circle is right.”

Taylor said social media allowed him to look back and see who was supporting him through his journey.

“I really did at one point screen shot everybody that liked my Instagram posts at one time because I was like, ‘Watch this: A year from now, these are the people that really supported me,’” Taylor said. “Small things matter. Likes, comments – people don’t know, but sometimes we get down and the smallest comment – ‘Man, you’re really inspirational – I love you’ – these things keep us running a little faster on that treadmill, punching somebody a little harder. You just never know.”