It took almost a year for Patricky Freire to return to action, and he doesn’t intend to spend much time inside the Bellator cage on Friday night.
The lightweight veteran, who hasn’t fought since a decision loss to 155-pound contender Marcin Held last September, faces Saad Awad in the co-main event of Bellator 141 in Temecula, but that wasn’t the fight he got in mind for his return.
"They offered me a fight against David Rickels and I turned it down because that’s nothing for me to gain with this fight, it wouldn’t get me closer to the title," Freire told MMAFighting.