{"id":286338,"date":"2018-09-30T07:14:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T14:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=286338"},"modified":"2018-09-30T07:14:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T14:14:02","slug":"aaron-pico-details-tense-post-fight-exchange-with-featherweight-champ-patricio-freire-his-time-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/aaron-pico\/aaron-pico-details-tense-post-fight-exchange-with-featherweight-champ-patricio-freire-his-time-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Pico details tense post-fight exchange with featherweight champ Patricio Freire: &#8216;His time is coming&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, on the main card of Bellator 206, red-hot featherweight prospect Aaron Pico picked up the biggest win of his impressive career thus far, smashing former Bellator bantamweight title challenger Leandro Higo to a first-round TKO victory.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after this mammoth win, Pico gestured to Bellator featherweight champion Patricio &#8220;Pitbull&#8221; Freire, who was in Higo&#8217;s corner, and told the the champion that his time was coming too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bellator 206: Aaron Pico Details Heated Interaction With Patricio &#039;Pitbull&#039; After Win - MMA Fighting\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4s5Djx2Bucc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just passion,&#8221; Aaron Pico said of his choice to engage Freire in the cage. &#8220;I mean just looking around, watching him come with Higo, they act like they&#8217;re \u2014 I dunno, maybe it&#8217;s just the way that I was taking it. They had their little entourage and stuff like that. I don&#8217;t have a big entourage. I&#8217;m coming in here to fight. I&#8217;m coming to knock your head off, and I knew that&#8217;s what I was going to do. I looked at his team and Patricio&#8217;s no different. His time is coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to have a picture of him on my wall. As long as he&#8217;s the champion, I&#8217;m going to wake up every single day, look at him and look at that belt and think how I&#8217;m gonna get there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plain and simple, he has what I want, and that&#8217;s the world championship belt. For these young guys, if you&#8217;re not training to be a world champion, then what the hell are you doing it for? 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