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Bellator lightweight champion Patricky “Pitbull” Freire has been forced to withdraw from his Bellator 283 bout against Sidney Outlaw due to injury. Sherdog was the first to announce the news on Tuesday that Pitbull was forced to withdraw fr…
Bellator lightweight champion Patricky “Pitbull” Freire has been forced to withdraw from his Bellator 283 bout against Sidney Outlaw due to injury. Sherdog was the first to announce the news on Tuesday that Pitbull was forced to withdraw from the bout. Freire earned the vacant title over Peter Queally in a rematch at Bellator 270….
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Most of the hype around Friday night’s Bellator 157 event centers around Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Matt Mitrione.
The two are in separate bouts, as Jackson headlines in his return to Bellator against Satoshi Ishii, while Mitrione makes his promo…
Most of the hype around Friday night’s Bellator 157 event centers around Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Matt Mitrione.
The two are in separate bouts, as Jackson headlines in his return to Bellator against Satoshi Ishii, while Mitrione makes his promotional debut against Carl Seumanutafa on Spike TV.
But the best fight on paper for the night is the co-main event.
Former Bellator champion Michael Chandler will try to wear the belt once more when he meets Patricky “Pitbull” Freire. The two have long been set to square off, but the fight took on more significance when the promotion released Will Brooks and put the belt up for grabs.
Chandler, a 30-year-old native of Missouri, has won two straight since a three-fight losing skid to Brooks (twice) and Eddie Alvarez. He has looked as his old self in demolishing David Rickels and Derek Campos.
Before his split decision defeat to Alvarez in 2013, Chandler (14-3) had won his first 12 pro bouts. That included wins over Alvarez, Rick Hawn and even Freire via decision five years ago.
A former University of Missouri wrestling standout, Chandler has scored 12 career finishes – six via knockout and six by submission.
Freire, the same age as Chandler, is on a two-fight win streak that includes a decision over Kevin Souza in April and a knockout of Ryan Couture to start the year. Overall, the Brazilian is 5-2 in his last seven, losing only via decision to Derek Anderson and Marcin Held.
This, though, marks his first five-round title fight, as he
twice reached the tournament finals in Bellator before falling.
Ten of his career wins have been knockouts, with one submission also to his credit.
Rampage and Mitrione will garner the headlines, but if you want to see a pure MMA fight between two of the top lightweights in the world, do not miss the co-main event.
Filed under: Bellator, NewsThe final Bellator Fighting Championships event of 2011 also featured the final fight of Kurt Pellegrino’s career.
Fighting in front of his home-state fans in New Jersey, Pellegrino was defeated in just 50 seconds by Patrick…
The final Bellator Fighting Championships event of 2011 also featured the final fight of Kurt Pellegrino‘s career.
Fighting in front of his home-state fans in New Jersey, Pellegrino was defeated in just 50 seconds by Patricky “Pitbull” Freire, and he said afterward that he won’t fight again.
“I started my career in Atlantic City and I wanted to end it in Atlantic City as well,” Pellegrino told the fans at Caesar’s Atlantic City afterward. “I lost fair and square. I love you all so much. This is the last time you’ll ever see me fight again.”
Pellegrino telling the fans (many of whom were his friends and family) that he had lost fair and square seemed to quell their anger at an apparent fast stoppage in his loss to Pitbull. Although Pitbull leveled Pellegrino with a left-right combination and then jumped on top and hit him with several punches on the ground, Pellegrino did still appear to be intelligently defending himself at the time of the stoppage, and the fans loudly booed the outcome.
A UFC veteran who went 7-5 inside the Octagon, Pellegrino left the UFC on a two-fight losing streak in May, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family. It was a surprise when he returned to MMA to fight for Bellator, but it’s not a surprise that he’s now saying he’s done fighting at the age of 32.