Focused on his upcoming featherweight title defense against Daniel Straus at Bellator 145, Patricio Freire wants to make a dream come true in 2015.
With former PRIDE head Nobuyuki Sakakibara returning to the MMA world as president of Rizin Fighting Federation in December, "Pitbull" is open to fighting in Japan by the end of the year.
"I’d love to fight in Japan. I always dreamed about this when I was a kid and started watching PRIDE, so I would love to fight there," Freire told MMAFighting.com. "I already asked for an opportunity to fight at Glory, but I’d like to fight at Rizin more.