Benson Henderson is set to fight for the second time inside the Bellator cage on Friday, Aug. 26, when he fights former featherweight champion Patricio Freire in a lightweight bout. It marks Henderson's lightweight debut in Bellator, and the winner of the fight gets a lightweight title shot against newly crowned champion Michael Chandler, a fight Henderson could already be slated for if he had waited.
Henderson was a huge name leaving the world's most prominent MMA organization in the UFC for perhaps the fastest growing and rising promotion, Bellator. It set off a debate about fighter free agency and the competitors talking to multiple MMA organizations before signing.