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Patricio Freire Says Patricky Will Display “New Game” at Bellator 141

August 27, 2015 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas

Patricio Freire spoke with MMAjunkie about his brother Patricky’s fight with Saad Awad at Bellator 141. Check out the highlights:

On Patricky’s readiness for the fight: “Patricky has kept training, trying to gain more skills and create a new game. He’s been fighting for a long time, and sometimes we have to reinvent ourselves. Other times, we have to try to revive that what made us good in the first place, and he’s been going through a combination of both – adjusting things, changing things.”

On Patricky’s improvement: “He was defending takedowns in a wrong way. His footwork needed improvement. He punches too hard and he believes in that, so he’d go in there wanting to kill; that killer instinct hasn’t been so present in his fights lately even though he got two TKOs at the tournament. We’re trying to give him more volume and more speed. His ground game used to be phenomenal, yet he didn’t let it go during the Marcin Held fight. He saw all that, and although the time off was not his idea, he used this time to try to put everything together.”

On his prediction: “I believe he’ll be coming there confident and improved and come out with the win.”