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\nPatricio Freire came up short against Aaron Pico at UFC 327. |
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Three days after suffering a unanimous decision defeat against “Congratulations to my opponent, he was well-trained and very Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Freire then addressed a common observation that his overall \u201cI saw many analysts saying that I started the first round well and Freire acknowledged that the blow was legal, and credited his \u201cAll I could do was try to protect myself from the blows that were The former Bellator \u201cI thank everyone who cheered wholeheartedly, and who are concerned <\/center> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Patricio Freire came up short against Aaron Pico at UFC 327. | Getty\/UFC Three days after suffering a unanimous decision defeat against Aaron Pico at UFC 327, Patricio Freire posted a video on Instagram thanking fans for their support and providing more details about the fight held last Saturday. “Congratulations to my opponent, he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAaron
\nPico<\/a> at UFC 327<\/a>,
\nPatricio
\nFreire<\/a> posted a video on Instagram thanking fans for their
\nsupport and providing more details about the fight held last
\nSaturday.<\/p>\n
\nfast,” the Brazilian acknowledged at the beginning of the
\nvideo.<\/p>\n
\nperformance dropped after a strong opening stanza. As it turns out,
\nthere was a good reason for that.<\/p>\n
\nhad a very strong drop in performance from the first to the
\nsecond,\u201d he said. \u201cIn reality, right at the beginning of the second
\nround, I took a clean punch to the eye, with my eye open, a jab and
\nstraight punch sequence, and it ended up fracturing the orbital
\nbone along with the side of my nose. This compromised my vision
\nright at the beginning of the second round.\u201d<\/p>\nStill Durable<\/h2>\n
\ndurable chin for allowing him to make it to the final horn against
\nPico.<\/p>\n
\ncoming,\u201d Freire said. \u201cOf course, I tried to attack too, but with
\nvery little success, being hit with a series of blows throughout
\nthe second round. And those who saw it realized that the \u2018old man\u2019
\nhas a chin that can still take punches.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMMA<\/a> champion, who has lost two of his first three
\nUFC<\/a> appearances, is taking a realistic view regarding the next
\nsteps in his MMA career.<\/p>\n
\nabout me,\u201d he said. \u201cI am aware of what I can still do in this
\ncategory but also aware that, after taking a few steps back, I need
\nto walk a longer path, not talking about the title for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n