Patricio Freire aka Patricio Pitbull, the reigning Bellator Featherweight Champion, believes that his accomplishments in the cage has been ignored by the media, but that has no impact on his results.
My results don’t depend on what the media thinks: Patricio Pitbull
Aside from being a three time Bellator 145-pound champion, Pitbull is also a former lightweight champion and is also set to face Sergio Pettis at Bellator 297 for the Bantamweight belt.
If he accomplishes that feat, then Pitbull will become a three division champion in mixed martial arts- a feat rarest that the rare in the sport. However, Pitbull feels there has been a lack of recognition for his achievements.
“I stopped thinking about that a long time ago,” said Pitbull while appearing on MMA Fighting‘s Trocação Franca podcast. “I have a lot of submissions, I have a lot of knockouts, I’ve been fighting overseas since 2010, and I was never the ‘Submission of the Year,’ I was never the ‘Knockout of the Year,’ the ‘Athlete of the Year.’ I think media has been ignoring me a bit, but my results don’t depend on what the media thinks.”
“Maybe global sports media still doesn’t recognize me after I win this title, but it will be hard to explain in the history of the sport how that guy won three belts in different divisions and you didn’t see, you didn’t notice. It will be on them. I’m not worried,” he added.
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