{"id":22282,"date":"2025-07-25T23:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/22282\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T23:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:44:09","slug":"patricky-pitbull-eyes-stomp-knockout-victory-in-rizin-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/22282\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricky Pitbull eyes stomp knockout victory in RIZIN return"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one has scored more knockouts inside the Bellator cage than Patricky Pitbull<\/a>, and he wants to continue to build that reputation in Japan. Pitbull signed an exclusive deal with the organization after leaving PFL and will face Shunta Nomura at Super RIZIN 4<\/a> on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

He has already competed four times in Japan, facing top-competition inside the RIZIN ring, and won three of four via knockout \u2014 including a finish over current lightweight champion Roberto Satoshi<\/a>. Pitbull landed soccer kicks to stop Luiz Gustavo, attacks he wasn\u2019t allowed to throw in Bellator and PFL, and hopes to secure other old-school finishes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope not to take this fight to the third round,\u201d Pitbull told MMA Fighting. \u201cJapan is a place that gives me more freedom to be more aggressive, I can\u2019t explain exactly why. Maybe it\u2019s because the rules are a bit different, there are stomps involved. We\u2019ll be allowed to throw elbows [on the ground], too. I think that helps me be aggressive on the feet and end with the stomps on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pitbull won twice via stomps in MMA, a pair of knockouts in the Brazilian circuit two decades ago. More experienced as a former Bellator lightweight champion and a gym leader alongside his brother Patricio Pitbull<\/a>, the 39-year-old believes he could be a win away from a shot at Satoshi with a win over a \u201ctricky\u201d Nomura.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s quite possible if I put on a good performance,\u201d Pitbull said. \u201cI\u2019m not counting on it. I don\u2019t know if they will decide to give me one more fight and hold this rematch a bit longer, but a good fight, a good performance, there\u2019s a good chance they book this one for the biggest event of the year [on New Years\u2019 Eve].\u201d<\/p>\n

Pitbull and Satoshi met on the second Bellator vs. RIZIN show in July 2023, and Satoshi\u2019s title was not on the line. Representing the North American promotion in a cage instead of Japan\u2019s traditional ring, Pitbull chopped down Satoshi\u2019s legs before the eventual stoppage in the third round.<\/p>\n

Satoshi is currently riding a four-fight winning streak dating back, finishing every single opponent in the opening round since March 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the undisputed champion, no one can take the belt from him, but I\u2019ve beaten him in a different time,\u201d Pitbull said. \u201cHe took the fight on two weeks\u2019 notice and we were fighting in a cage, and I don\u2019t know if that hurt him. That\u2019s not an excuse, but maybe he didn\u2019t have the ideal time to prepare for me. I was training to fight A.J. McKee<\/a> and I was training for a while, and had already fought a month before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No one has scored more knockouts inside the Bellator cage than Patricky Pitbull, and he wants to continue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,16488,786,585,4717,2990,1347,785,22499,22500,9664,15804,85,22501,10593],"class_list":{"0":"post-22282","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-eyes","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-front-page","13":"tag-in","14":"tag-knockout","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-mma","17":"tag-patricky","18":"tag-pitbull","19":"tag-return","20":"tag-rizin","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-stomp","23":"tag-victory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22282","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=22282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}