Patricky Freire campaigned for a fight with Ryan Couture as soon as he heard Derek Anderson was out of Saturday’s Bellator 148 fight with an injury, and he got it. Coming off a close split decision loss to Anderson at Bellator 147, "Pitbull" returns to the cage 55 days later to go for his eighth win under the Bellator banner.
"I asked Bellator for a fight soon because I’m fighting and training well, I’m feeling well, and I needed a fight," Freire told MMAFighting.com. "I was so upset with that loss to the judges.