Jeremy Kennedy expects to have a strength advantage over Bellator featherweight champion Patricio Freire . Kennedy (19-3) challenges Freire (34-7) in Friday’s Bellator Champions Series: Belfast co-headliner at SSE Arena in Northern Ireland. Freire finds himself on a two-fight losing skid for the first time in his career. But with both losses not coming at featherweight, Kennedy admits it’s tough to gauge which version of Freire he’ll get. “I’m training like I’m fighting the best ‘Pitbull,’” Kennedy told MMA Junkie Radio . “I have to.
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