“Mark my words, I will beat anyone who puts them in front of me,” Freire said Ariel Helwani. “I think our styles match up and we’re going to have a great fight. It could be a war or it could be easy for me or him. He’s in a great position right now and I think he’s going to avoid me. I had a great performance last Saturday and now I’m saying his name, let’s see. He was frozen for three minutes (against Jose Delgado) and he was out of the UFC. Done, I believe I can beat him, that’s why I challenged him.
“I was a little disappointed in my life,” added Freire. “I don’t know why, just something with my mind. I’ve been working on it. I brought back my old trainer who worked with me when I knocked it all out at Bellator. Now he’s working with me again. I don’t know, I feel like we made a couple of little changes, a couple of little moves in my training camp and we were successful. All my life, all I do is train and watch how I don’t know how. I wasn’t satisfied with anything. The only time I was happy was that I was 50-50.