In the past, Patricio Freire didn’t always seem to appreciate the rising star of Conor McGregor.
Prior to McGregor’s win over Dennis Siver, for example, Bellator MMA’s former featherweight king criticized media rankings that listed “The Notorious” one ahead of him.
“You’ve got Conor McGregor that’s ranked higher than me, and he’s just a s--t talker,” Freire said during a January 2015 interview interview on the Sherdog Radio Network’s “Beatdown” show.
At the time, Freire predicted that should McGregor work his way to a 145-pound title shot against Aldo, that he’d be “embarrassed in front of the world.