AJ McKee, the Bellator featherweight champion, will run it back against ex-champ Patricio “Pitbull” Freire in Bellator 277’s main event on Friday.
AJ McKee , the Bellator featherweight champion, will run it back against ex-champ Patricio “Pitbull” Freire in Bellator 277’s main event on Friday night from SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. The unbeaten second-generation fighter connected for some Q&A over Zoom with Scott Fontana for the Post Fight Interview.A: I got to eat a fruit cake, a big ol’ fruitcake. … Edible arrangement. I apologize.A: Honestly, not much. Gameplan’s still the same. Life’s still the same.
A: Nah. I ain’t making that much bread yet. That’s a half-million dollar car. Hopefully, within the near future, I can continue to showcase my skills, keep that ‘O’ , and keep those O’s on the check.Q: Why did you want an immediate rematch against Pitbull, who’s very accomplished but whom you beat quickly in July?
Q: Does it mean anything to you to be headlining the event above the light heavyweight grand prix final between Vadim Nemkov and Corey Anderson? A: I feel, with my skill set, my record, accolades, becoming a champ, and then obviously securing a million dollars while becoming a champ, there’s no ‘O’ on my record, so there should be no O’s dropping from my check. That’s just how I feel. It’s an opinion. But, at the end of the day, the proof is in the pudding. We were trying to come up with numbers; couldn’t come to an understanding, so forth. So at the moment, it’s [a] championship clause [I’m fighting under].