Bellator’s Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire thinks UFC’s Dana White ‘doesn’t have balls’ to make Volkanovski super fight
- Two-division champ says UFC president ‘is an idiot if he doesn’t know who I am’
- Freire insists he would finish ‘boring’ UFC featherweight champ Alex Volkanovski fast
Patricio “Pitbull” Freire has US$1 million dollars ready for Dana White, if the UFC president wants to put his money where his mouth is.
Fielding questions at the UFC on ESPN 15 post-event press conference last month, White scoffed at the idea of promoting “super fights” with rival US promotion Bellator, whose CEO Scott Coker claims to have the best light heavyweight division in MMA.
One reporter asked White what he thought of Bellator’s two-division champ Freire (30-4), considered one of the best in the world at 155 and 145 pounds. “I don’t know, I honestly couldn’t tell you,” was the answer, which has brought short shrift from the 33-year-old Brazilian.
“If he doesn’t know who I am, he’s an idiot,” Freire told SCMP MMA. “But I’m sure he does. His champions know who I am, the fans know who I am, so that’s what matters most.”
After getting wind of White’s comments, Pitbull fired off a series of tweets putting forth the idea of a cross-promotional show putting Bellator and the UFC’s champions against each other, even going as far as to offer that lofty wager to the American.
“I just don’t think Dana White has the balls to put a cross-promotional fight [together], be it against his featherweight champion or lightweight champion,” Freire said. “Because, if they lose, all the propaganda that he does that the best fighters are under his roof would fall apart. So I don’t think he really has the balls to really bet with me on this.
