This was the type of fight Bellator MMA envisioned when it signed Benson Henderson.
The former Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Extreme Cagefighting lightweight titleholder will meet Patricio Freire in the Bellator 160 main event on Friday at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Whichever man emerges with his hand raised will become the No. 1 contender to reigning Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler’s throne.
A taekwondo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt who was an NAIA All-American wrestler at Dana College in Blair, Nebraska, Henderson made his promotional debut at Bellator 153 on April 22.