Jeremy Kennedy expects to have a power benefit over Bellator featherweight champion Patricio Freire.
Kennedy (19-3) challenges Freire (34-7) in Friday’s Bellator Champions Sequence: Belfast co-headliner at SSE Enviornment in Northern Eire.
Freire finds himself on a two-fight shedding skid for the primary time in his profession. However with each losses not coming at featherweight, Kennedy admits it’s powerful to gauge which model of Freire he’ll get.
“I’m coaching like I’m preventing the most effective ‘Pitbull,’” Kennedy informed MMA Junkie Radio. “I’ve to. That’s the best way I strategy each struggle. It’s exhausting as a result of there’s plenty of little hypothesis round these losses. He hasn’t misplaced at 145. So he’s nonetheless, in my eyes, that undisputed, that multitime champion. (At) 145, who’s beat him at 145?”
One in all Freire’s losses got here in a bantamweight title struggle in opposition to Sergio Pettis this previous June – his divisional debut. He was then knocked out lower than a month later by Chihiro Suzuki in a 154-pound catchweight bout that he accepted on very quick discover.
Whereas Kennedy doesn’t put an excessive amount of inventory into Freire’s skid, he can’t assist however suppose his latest lower to 135 kilos will play an element.
“The largest factor that stands proud to me was that lower to ’35,” Kennedy stated. “Not the age, not the damage and tear, simply the body, the scale. The truth that he may even make that weight, I simply know I’m an even bigger human than him. I simply know I’m much more bodily at featherweight than he’s as a result of I couldn’t even dream about making 140.
“So, the truth that he may, and did, and never even that way back, like inside a yr, I don’t suppose he’s going to have the ability to placed on the muscle correctly to even evaluate with me bodily. That’s the largest one I’m taking away, is I simply suppose he’s going to be too small. However once more, he has fought his complete life as a reasonably undersized featherweight. He’s a bit of undersized, and I plan on exhibiting that simply by being too bodily and too dominant in every single place.”
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