{"id":593799,"date":"2026-04-10T02:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593799\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:11:08","slug":"aaron-picos-ko-loss-going-to-play-with-his-head-in-patricio-pitbull-ufc-327-bout-per-ex-bellator-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593799\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Pico’s KO loss “going to play with his head” in Patricio Pitbull UFC 327 bout, per ex-Bellator champ"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC 327 goes down this weekend, and Patricio Pitbull takes on Aaron Pico, with a prior adversary of Pitbull\u2019s weighing in on the bout. The combatant in question is Sergio Pettis, who also does battle this Saturday. The former Bellator MMA champion takes on PFL<\/a> debutant Mitch McKee in the headliner of PFL Chicago on April 11th.<\/p>\n

During Pettis\u2019 Bellator MMA championship reign at 135 pounds, he got a win over Patricio Pitbull in the latter\u2019s attempt to become a three-division champ within the promotion. When asked for his thoughts on Pitbull\u2019s fight on Saturday with Aaron Pico at UFC 327, another prominent Bellator MMA alum as well, Pettis said [via Bowks Talking Bouts<\/a>],<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it\u2019s going to be an interesting fight. [Aaron] Pico\u2019s a beast. I know Pico is coming off of a devastating loss, so I don\u2019t know how that\u2019s going to play with his head a little bit. Patricio [Pitbull\u2019s] got some momentum built up behind him now with a couple good performances in the UFC. So, yeah, we\u2019ll see how things play out. I\u2019m excited just to watch those guys go at it. They\u2019ve never gone at it before. So, both explosive, both killers. So, should be hell of a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Aaron Pico was \u201creally embarrassed\u201d after Lerone Murphy KO defeat in UFC debut<\/p>\n

Aaron Pico enters the octagon for his sophomore outing with the Ultimate Fighting Championship on April 11th and seems eager to put his debut performance in the promotion behind him. The spinning back elbow knockout loss to Lerone Murphy at UFC 319 last August went viral, and when reflecting upon that setback while speaking at the UFC 327 media day, Pico stated [via MMA Fighting<\/a>],<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to lie, after the last loss, I took it a little bit hard. I was really embarrassed and had some down days. It\u2019s just part of the game, especially when you put a lot of work into it. That\u2019s what fans sometimes don\u2019t understand. I\u2019m very thankful for the fans, don\u2019t get me wrong, but then you also get the fans that criticize and say certain things, but they don\u2019t see the behind the scenes, how much work, the hunger pangs before bed because you\u2019re cutting weight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe toll it takes on families and things like that and you put your life and soul into it and to come up short, especially on a big stage like that, I took it really, really hard. It was OK, though, after a few weeks with my son and traveling and spending a lot of time in Morocco, one thing I always know is that the sun rises the next morning. My son loves me and my family\u2019s got me and yeah, just got to get back on the horse. It was very difficult, but I\u2019m back now, so all good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 327 goes down this weekend, and Patricio Pitbull takes on Aaron Pico, with a prior adversary of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[35891,49,48,641,638,64041,1863,225694,90789,82,640,171700],"class_list":{"0":"post-593799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-aaron-pico","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-patricio-pitbull","14":"tag-pfl","15":"tag-pfl-chicago","16":"tag-sergio-pettis","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-ufc","19":"tag-ufc-327"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593799","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=593799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}