MMAFighting.com<\/a> ahead of Saturday\u2019s pay-per-view. \u201cPitbull\u201d expressed his belief that he allowed outside distractions to hinder him prior to his UFC debut.<\/p>\n\u201cI was very distracted,\u201d Pitbull said. \u201cI think the camp had some interferences from personal situations so I decided to isolate myself and leave it all for later. Kind of a pause from social life and problems, mainly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Freire made the decision to isolate himself from family members in an effort to get back on track and prove that he\u2019s still a viable competitor.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t lose. That\u2019s the reason,\u201d Pitbull said. \u201cAnything that took my focus away, even for a few minutes, I decided to leave behind. My oldest son comes here and visits me, and that\u2019s because he already trains and behaves himself. The younger one, I meet him a few times during the week with his mother, but only for a few moments. When it\u2019s time to train, rest, lunch, I\u2019m isolated. I don\u2019t have access to part of my family. The great motivation is not to lose the next fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI debuted in the UFC, an organization that we\u2019ve aimed to be part of for many years, and there was a great expectation around that,\u201d he continued. \u201cYair Rodriguez is not a random guy, he\u2019s a top 5, he was an interim champion before and was going to fight [Alexander] Volkanovski again. It won\u2019t be possible because he\u2019s having surgery. But anyway, that\u2019s for myself. I didn\u2019t like to debut with a loss. It sadly happened. What I can do now is look ahead and take my next step. My next step is this fight, and me doing what\u2019s in my hands. To shield myself from information from outside the camp, let\u2019s put it this way. Everything that gets to me is filtered.\u201d<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll see what ultimately plays out on Saturday. If you\u2019re in need of some fight night coverage, BJPenn.com will have what you\u2019re looking. You can count on us for live results, video highlights, and key post-fight tidbits. Visit our homepage this weekend for UFC 318 coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dire Strategy From \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Patricio Freire spoke to MMAFighting.com ahead of Saturday\u2019s pay-per-view. \u201cPitbull\u201d expressed his belief that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}