At Bellator 160 this weekend, former UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson is set to fight former Bellator featherweight champion Patricio (Pitbull) Freire in a super-fight with a lightweight title shot on the line. Henderson told SI.com last week that the fight almost didn't get booked, that Freire needed some more coaxing, but Pitbull is telling a different story.
That tweet came after Henderson was quoted in this space last week, describing his talks with Bellator: "I said I want to fight someone, let’s set something up, let’s get something big. I want to get in there again.