Jeremy Kennedy expects to have a power benefit over Bellator featherweight champion Patricio Freire.
Kennedy (19-3) challenges Freire (34-7) in Friday’s Bellator Champions Sequence: Belfast co-headliner at SSE Area in Northern Eire.
Freire finds himself on a two-fight dropping skid for the primary time in his profession. However with each losses not coming at featherweight, Kennedy admits it’s powerful to gauge which model of Freire he’ll get.
“I’m coaching like I’m combating the most effective ‘Pitbull,’” Kennedy informed MMA Junkie Radio. “I’ve to. That’s the way in which I strategy each battle. It’s laborious as a result of there may be a variety of little hypothesis round these losses. He hasn’t misplaced at 145. So he’s nonetheless, in my eyes, that undisputed, that multitime champion. (At) 145, who’s beat him at 145?”
Considered one of Freire’s losses got here in a bantamweight title battle in opposition to Sergio Pettis this previous June – his divisional debut. He was then knocked out lower than a month later by Chihiro Suzuki in a 154-pound catchweight bout that he accepted on very quick discover.
Whereas Kennedy doesn’t put an excessive amount of inventory into Freire’s skid, he can’t assist however suppose his latest reduce to 135 kilos will play an element.
“The most important factor that stands proud to me was that reduce to ’35,” Kennedy mentioned. “Not the age, not the damage and tear, simply the body, the dimensions. The truth that he may even make that weight, I simply know I’m a much bigger human than him. I simply know I’m much more bodily at featherweight than he’s as a result of I couldn’t even dream about making 140.
“So, the truth that he may, and did, and never even that way back, like inside a 12 months, I don’t suppose he’s going to have the ability to placed on the muscle correctly to even examine with me bodily. That’s the largest one I’m taking away, is I simply suppose he’s going to be too small. However once more, he has fought his entire life as a reasonably undersized featherweight. He’s a little bit undersized, and I plan on exhibiting that simply by being too bodily and too dominant in all places.”
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