Patricio Freire isn’t looking past his opponent at Bellator Champions Series: Belfast, but he hopes to get another opportunity to fight for the PFL vs. Bellator Champions belt soon.
Freire (35-7) was scheduled to face PFL’s season winner Jesus Pinedo at PFL vs. Bellator in February, but like a few other matchups, the fight fell apart in the final days before the event. Freire was given a replacement opponent in Gabriel Braga, but that fight also fell through.
Aside from an opportunity to return to the win column and snap a two-fight skid, Freire really wanted to get his hands on the specially created belt awarded to the winner of the champion vs. champion bouts.
