{"id":112298,"date":"2025-09-02T03:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112298\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T03:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:55:07","slug":"patricio-pitbull-hasnt-really-hit-his-stride-in-the-ufc-says-ex-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112298\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricio Pitbull “hasn’t really hit his stride in the UFC”, says ex-foe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patricio Pitbull aims to advance beyond a .500 record in the UFC this weekend, and a former foe of Pitbull has weighed in on that looming contest.<\/p>\n

\"Patricio<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the former two-division Bellator MMA champion will clash with a former two-division Oktagon MMA<\/a> titleholder in Losene Keita at UFC Paris on September 6th. Jeremy Kennedy is the former Pitbull opponent in question, and \u2018JBC\u2019 battles Jeremy Henry for the Battlefield Fight League interim lightweight title at BFL 84 on September 4th.<\/p>\n

Kennedy appeared on MMA Canada, and his prior history with Patricio Pitbull fighting for the Bellator MMA featherweight belt came up during the chat. When referencing that in the context of the Canadian combatant\u2019s thoughts on Freire\u2019s upcoming fight with Losene Keita<\/a> at this weekend\u2019s UFC Fight Night offering, Kennedy said,<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I would say, I think; I mean every time Pitbull now since my fight I\u2019m like ah, he\u2019s getting to that point, you know. He\u2019s still getting it done obviously against Dan [Ige] the last one, but I just think that youth is slowly starting to catch up, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[Losene] Keita, I think will just be too much for him, too powerful for him, and I mean Pitbull hasn\u2019t really hit his stride in the UFC. At his age and at this stage in his career, I don\u2019t really see him rejuvenating himself too much. I think we\u2019re going to see the same kind of Pitbull we\u2019ve been seeing and I just don\u2019t know if that\u2019s enough to get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patricio Pitbull aims to advance beyond a .500 record in the UFC this weekend, and a former foe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,61937,786,73505,785,80214,85,787,59037],"class_list":{"0":"post-112298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bellator-mma","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-losene-keita","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-patricio-pitbull","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-ufc-paris"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}