Patricio “Pitbull” Freire earned a shot at the Bellator featherweight title by defeating Justin Wilcox by technical knockout in the Bellator Season 9 Featherweight Tournament Final on Nov. 15, but he’s not getting the next title shot. Instead, Bellator recently announced that champion Daniel Straus would face Pat Curran for the third time on March 14, and Freire would face the winner. “I had to weigh and balance the power of the trilogy,” explained Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney during a media conference call on Monday. “I had to look at in their first fight, Pat knocked out Daniel, and in the second fight Daniel ground out the W. As I look at those two guys and I look at Pitbull, I see, in my mind, and we can debate this stuff until we’re blue in the face, but I see, in Straus and Curran, two of the top five or six featherweights on the face of the Earth.
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