{"id":367470,"date":"2020-11-12T08:02:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=367470"},"modified":"2020-11-12T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:02:48","slug":"patricio-freire-rates-michael-chandlers-chances-in-the-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/patricio-freire-rates-michael-chandlers-chances-in-the-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricio Freire rates Michael Chandler&#8217;s chances in the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-division Bellator champ Patricio Freire has shared his thoughts on how Michael Chandler will perform in the UFC&#8217;s Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>Freire currently holds the Bellator featherweight and lightweight titles, and is slated to defend the former against Pedro Carvalho in the main event of Bellator 252 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian fought Chandler, the former Bellator lightweight champion, in 2019, winning by <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/bellator-221-results-patricio-freire-kos-michael-chandler-video\/\">first-round KO<\/a>. Despite the outcome of their fight\u2014and their lingering rivalry\u2014Freire believes Chandler has the skills to defeat anybody he&#8217;s matched up in the UFC lightweight division.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fight Secrets | Patricio Pitbull - Episode 5 | Bellator 252\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YwYrl-oWflY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great for Chandler,\u201d Freire told the media ahead of Bellator 252 (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/11\/ufc-news-patricio-freire-reacts-michael-chandler-signing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cHe can beat all those guys. He\u2019s a great fighter, and he has the right tools to beat all those guys over there (in the UFC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd to tell you the truth, that\u2019s the only way to see who\u2019s the best in the world in each weight class is to have cross-promotion fights, because then there\u2019s no guessing who\u2019s better or that you have to be in a certain organization to see who\u2019s the best,&#8221; Freire added. &#8220;I\u2019m ready to show that I\u2019m the best in MMA, not only in one promotion, and I\u2019m willing to prove that at any moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chandler has yet to make his debut with the UFC, but is expected to get a top-5 foe in his first fight with the promotion. Freire sees that as proof that Bellator fighters are among the best in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat proves that the Bellator fighters are badass,\u201d Patricio said. \u201cWe just had a guy leave, and he\u2019s already ready to fight for the title, so that shows what we\u2019ve known all along, that Bellator fighters are just as good if not better. It\u2019s not about promotion; it\u2019s about the fighters. That\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Patricio Freire on this? Is Michael Chandler going to make waves in the UFC?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-division Bellator champ Patricio Freire has shared his thoughts on how Michael Chandler will perform in the UFC&#8217;s Octagon. Freire currently holds the Bellator featherweight and lightweight titles, and is slated to defend the former against Pedro Carvalho in the main event of Bellator 252 on Thursday night. The Brazilian fought Chandler, the former Bellator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":301752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,10485,10479],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Patricio Freire rates Michael Chandler&#039;s chances in the UFC | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two-division Bellator champ Patricio Freire has shared his thoughts on how Michael Chandler will perform in the UFC&#039;s Octagon.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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