Patrício in photo by Carlos Ozório
Patricio Pitbull gave it his all and achieved what he set out to. As reported by our collaborator Junior Samurai, the hard-hitter laid it on Daniel Straus yesterday, dominating all three rounds of the Bellator featherweight GP final. Now the Jiu-Jitsu black belt will get a shot at the divisional belt and a chance for revenge for revenge to boot, as he will face Joe Warren, the man responsible for the lone blemish on the Brazilian’s record.
Bellator 45 was held in Louisiana, USA, and further crowned Christian M’Pumbo, who used his boxing skills to drop Richard Hale to the canvas, where he followed up with another four bombs take his post as light heavyweight GP champion.
Check out the complete results:
Bellator 45
Louisiana, USA
May 21, 2011
Light heavyweight GP final:
Christian M’Pumbu defeated Richard Hale via technical knockout in R1
Featherweight GP final
Patrício “Pitbull” Freire defeated Daniel Straus via unanimous decision
Sam Alvey defeated Karl Amoussou via unanimous decision
Rene Nazaré submitted Kelvin Hackney via rear-naked choke in R1
Luiz “Sapo” Santos defeated Nicolae Cury via unanimous decision
Joseph Abercrombie submitted Ben Parpart via rear-naked choke in R1
Shawn Jordan defeated John Hill via technical knockout in R1
Tim Ruberg defeated Mike Fleniken via unanimous decision