Filed under: Bellator , Featured , Featured Videos , News , Videos KANSAS CITY — MMA coach and ersatz Portugese translator Eric Albarracin smiled sheepishly at a Bellator PR rep as his charge, featherweight champ Patricio Freire , let loose a verbal grenade after an open workout in support of Friday’s Bellator 138. “Don’t talk to him while he’s cutting weight,” Albarracin offered, leaving unsaid the real point – or this happens. Freire was in a mood, and it probably wasn’t a great idea to put him in front of tape recorders. What PR professional, after all, would want to hear the champ’s assessment of the event’s headliner, the guilty pleasure featuring Kevin “ Kimbo Slice ” Ferguson and Ken Shamrock ? “I feel sorry for them – they’re old,” Freire (23-2 MMA, 11-2 BMMA) told MMAjunkie, repeating feelings he’s expressed multiple times recently . “I don’t want to see an old guy get hurt in the ring.
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‘Pitbull’ Freire won’t watch Shamrock vs. Slice: ‘I feel sorry for them – they’re old’ – MMA Junkie