Leandro Higo requires subsequent title shot or ‘easy fight’ towards James Gallagher

By Farah Hannoun and Nolan King |

Would possibly well 25, 2021 4: 50 pm

UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Despite missing weight yet again, Leandro Higo thinks he’s earned a bantamweight title shot.

Higo (21-5 MMA, 4-3 BMMA) avenged his loss to venerable champion Darrion Caldwell when he edged him out at Bellator 259 this previous Friday. The Brazilian made it three in a row, but did now not hit the bantamweight designate on the scale for the 2d straight fight.

An apologetic Higo may possibly also honest agree with had one other weight mishap, but he thinks his resume speaks for itself and desires a crack at newly topped champion Sergio Pettis.

“I’m very sorry for that to happen yet again,” Higo acknowledged on the put up-fight news conference. “Please forgive me. I in actual fact went to mattress perfect one kilo over, which is two pounds. I felt gargantuan after I went to mattress after which after I awoke, I went your total map to the final 2d. My physique perfect wouldn’t rupture a sweat. I know I could possibly also very successfully be the most efficient within the arena, and here’s my weight class. Here is my class.

“I mediate that I deserve a title shot. I perfect beat three of the best names within the game. I perfect beat a venerable world champion, and no-one has beat the fashion of three guys that I perfect beat – the excessive, world-class caliber of guys that I perfect beat … three consecutive wins.”

Nonetheless if Higo doesn’t obtain his wish, he has one other fighter in mind he’d be willing to face. He’d admire to obtain his fingers on James Gallagher, reigniting his crew’s contention with the famed SBG Eire crew.

“If I don’t obtain this fight for the title towards Sergio Pettis, give me someone easy,” Higo acknowledged. “I’ve been battling your total hardest opponents here in Bellator. Give me SBG’s James Gallagher. I prefer a straightforward fight. A pair of weeks ago, his teammate Peter Queally from SBG modified into smiling loads and so modified into James Gallagher after they beat Patricky ‘Pitbull’ (Freire) on legend of of a decrease on the side of the pinnacle, and I are desirous to show that frown upside down of James Gallagher – one other contention with SBG.”