Friday night’s Bellator 255 card is headlined by a marquee bout pitting Patricio “Pitbull” Freire against Emmanuel Sanchez.
Freire is a double champion, holding both Bellator’s lightweight championship and the featherweight championship, and the winner of his fight against Sanchez will meet A.J. McKee in the finals of the Bellator Featherweight World Grand Prix Tournament. In addition to the high-stakes fight, the card also marks Bellator’s debut on Showtime—and has the honor of being called by the premier play-by-play man in the business, Mauro Ranallo.
“If you’re just coming to Bellator now, you picked the right time,” Ranallo says.