Top contender suffers torn ACL, Weichel jumps in against "Pitbull" Freire.
Bellator MMA's top-featherweight contender Georgi Karakhanyan reportedly suffered a torn ACL and is out of his Bellator 138 featherweight title fight against champion Patricio Freire. Karakhanyan will be replaced by German number-one ranked featherweight Daniel Weichel, who earned his shot at the belt by winning Bellator's last 145-pound tournament last year and recently beating Pat Curran at Bellator 133 in February.
"I've known that the fight is on for three days now, but somehow I had the feeling before, I sensed it, that I will fight for the title this summer," Weichel told German outlet GNP1.