The Bellator featherweight title is back in the possession of Patrício “Pitbull” Freire.
Freire defeated A.J. McKee on Friday in the main event of Bellator 277, which was especially satisfying after dropping the belt to him in under two minutes last summer.
Revenge tasted sweet for Freire (33-5), who won by unanimous decision and reclaimed the featherweight belt for a third time. He also broke an undefeated record, making McKee (18-1) suffer his first-ever defeat in the cage.
“I took something precious from him,” said Freire, speaking partially through a translator from his in-laws’ house in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.