Nobody has scored extra knockouts contained in the Bellator cage than Patricky Pitbull, and he desires to proceed to construct that popularity in Japan. Pitbull signed an unique take care of the group after leaving PFL and can face Shunta Nomura at Tremendous RIZIN 4 on Sunday morning.
He has already competed 4 occasions in Japan, dealing with top-competition contained in the RIZIN ring, and gained three of 4 through knockout — together with a end over present light-weight champion Roberto Satoshi. Pitbull landed soccer kicks to cease Luiz Gustavo, assaults he wasn’t allowed to throw in Bellator and PFL, and hopes to safe different old-school finishes.
“I hope to not take this struggle to the third spherical,” Pitbull informed MMA Preventing. “Japan is a spot that provides me extra freedom to be extra aggressive, I can’t clarify precisely why. Perhaps it’s as a result of the principles are a bit totally different, there are stomps concerned. We’ll be allowed to throw elbows [on the ground], too. I believe that helps me be aggressive on the ft and finish with the stomps on the bottom.”
Pitbull gained twice through stomps in MMA, a pair of knockouts within the Brazilian circuit twenty years in the past. Extra skilled as a former Bellator light-weight champion and a gymnasium chief alongside his brother Patricio Pitbull, the 39-year-old believes he might be a win away from a shot at Satoshi with a win over a “difficult” Nomura.
“I do know it’s fairly attainable if I placed on efficiency,” Pitbull stated. “I’m not relying on it. I don’t know if they are going to resolve to present me yet one more struggle and maintain this rematch a bit longer, however struggle, efficiency, there’s likelihood they guide this one for the largest occasion of the yr [on New Years’ Eve].”
Pitbull and Satoshi met on the second Bellator vs. RIZIN present in July 2023, and Satoshi’s title was not on the road. Representing the North American promotion in a cage as a substitute of Japan’s conventional ring, Pitbull chopped down Satoshi’s legs earlier than the eventual stoppage within the third spherical.
Satoshi is presently driving a four-fight successful streak courting again, ending each single opponent within the opening spherical since March 2024.
“He’s the undisputed champion, nobody can take the belt from him, however I’ve overwhelmed him in a special time,” Pitbull stated. “He took the struggle on two weeks’ discover and we have been combating in a cage, and I don’t know if that harm him. That’s not an excuse, however possibly he didn’t have the perfect time to organize for me. I used to be coaching to struggle A.J. McKee and I used to be coaching for some time, and had already fought a month earlier than.”
