Two fighters from the Bellator 286 fight card will need to move up in weight going forward. Last weekend Bellator held an event in Long Beach, California. The event was headlined by a featherweight title fight between Patrício Pitbull and Ádám Borics. …
Two fighters from the Bellator 286 fight card will need to move up in weight going forward. Last weekend Bellator held an event in Long Beach, California. The event was headlined by a featherweight title fight between Patrício Pitbull and Ádám Borics. The fight card was a good mix of all different weight classes and…
Off the back of another successful featherweight title defense at Bellator 286 over the course of last weekend, former two-weight champion, Brazilian veteran, Patricio Pitbull has claimed a crossover fight to the UFC against his featherweight champion counterpart, Alexander Volkanovski has piqued his interest. Headlining Bellator 286 against Hungarian contender, Adam Borics, Patricio Pitbull, the […]
Off the back of another successful featherweight title defense at Bellator 286 over the course of last weekend, former two-weight champion, Brazilian veteran, Patricio Pitbull has claimed a crossover fight to the UFC against his featherweight champion counterpart, Alexander Volkanovski has piqued his interest.
Headlining Bellator 286 against Hungarian contender, Adam Borics, Patricio Pitbull, the younger brother of lightweight kingpin, Patricky Pitbull, turned in a comprehensive unanimous decision win over Borics over the course of five rounds – successfully defending his featherweight throne.
The victory came as Pitbull’s first successful defense of the featherweight crown, since beginning his third reign as division champion, defeating event co-headliner, A.J. McKee back in April of this year in a close decision success.
Patricio Pitbull welcomes a fight against Alexander Volkanovski in the future
Forever linked with an eventual move to either the UFC’s lightweight or featherweight ranks, Patricio Pitbull has claimed a fight with the promotion’s featherweight pacesetter, the aforenoted, Volkanovski interests him, however, believes UFC president, Dana White is fearful of booking the fight.
“I bet one million and he accepted that,” Patirico Pitbull said briefly of a fight with Alexander Volkanovski during his post-Bellator 286 media availability. “But Dana white doesn’t have balls.”
As for Volkanovski, the current pound-for-pound number one in the UFC, boasts an incredible 25-1 professional record, and has yet to taste defeat during his gold-laden Octagon tenure.
Most recently, the New South Wales tactician managed to turn in his fourth successful defense of the featherweight title with a third career win over former division champion, Max Holloway at UFC 276 back in July during International Fight Week.
Volkanovski has been linked with a potential move to the promotion’s lightweight division since his win over Holloway, and has noted his interest in fighting the victor of the upcoming vacant title fight between Charles Oliveira and Islam Makhachev which takes place at UFC 280 later this month.
Patricio “Pitbull” Freire successfully defended his featherweight title against Ádám Borics in the main event of Bellator 286. The 35-year-old already had a number of previous title defenses under his belt, but this matchup with Borics mark…
Patricio “Pitbull” Freire successfully defended his featherweight title against Ádám Borics in the main event of Bellator 286. The 35-year-old already had a number of previous title defenses under his belt, but this matchup with Borics marked his first defense since winning Bellator’s featherweight title for a third time. Drawing on his championship experience, Pitbull…
The co-main event of Bellator 286 featured the promotion’s former featherweight champion AJ McKee making a successful lightweight debut against Spike Carlyle. Although he ended up winning every round on all 3 judge’s scorecards, McKee was certainly tes…
The co-main event of Bellator 286 featured the promotion’s former featherweight champion AJ McKee making a successful lightweight debut against Spike Carlyle. Although he ended up winning every round on all 3 judge’s scorecards, McKee was certainly tested in his first foray into a new weight class. Carlyle came out extremely aggressive with a flying…
A featherweight matchup between Aaron Pico and Jeremy Kennedy at Bellator 286 ended in disappointment when Pico injured his shoulder in the opening round. Arguably the most hyped prospect in the history of MMA, Pico carried a 6-fight win streak into th…
A featherweight matchup between Aaron Pico and Jeremy Kennedy at Bellator 286 ended in disappointment when Pico injured his shoulder in the opening round. Arguably the most hyped prospect in the history of MMA, Pico carried a 6-fight win streak into this bout with UFC veteran Jeremy Kennedy. There was a good chance that Bellator…
The previously undefeated MMA Lab staple, Richard Palencia has suffered the first defeat of his professional mixed martial arts career, in quite horrifying fashion, fracturing his leg off the back of a kick attempt in the second round of his Bellator 286 fight against Cee Jay Hamilton. Palencia, a former LFA bantamweight champion, entered tonight’s […]
The previously undefeated MMA Lab staple, Richard Palencia has suffered the first defeat of his professional mixed martial arts career, in quite horrifying fashion, fracturing his leg off the back of a kick attempt in the second round of his Bellator 286 fight against Cee Jay Hamilton.
Palencia, a former LFA bantamweight champion, entered tonight’s Bellator 286 fight against Hamilton in the midst of an impressive 10-fight winning streak since his professional mixed martial arts career began back in 2013.
Drawing Hamilton at the San Jose, California event, Richard Palencia, who most recently Allan Bergosso at LFA 119, suffered the first professional loss of his career to date in his Bellator debut, fracturing his left leg in the second round of his bow against the aforenoted, Hamilton.
Richard Palencia suffers a gruesome leg injury inhis Bellator 286 bow
Appearing to land shin-on-shin with a left leg kick attempt in the second round, Palencia stepped back to his stanch pre-kick, before grimacing, and eventually separating his leg which had fractured on impact. Bellator MMA shared footage of Palencia’s grotesque injury on their official Twitter account.
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Tonight’s event is scheduled to feature an undisputed featherweight title fight between champion, Patricio Pitbull, and challenger, Adam Borics. In the night’s co-headlining slot, former featherweight kingpin and Grand Prix victor, A.J. McKee draws UFC alum, the streaking, Spike Carlyle in a catchweight fight.