Photos show Bellator MMA produced one of 2021's bloodiest bouts as fighters looked like they wore butcher's aprons
- Photos show Bellator MMA may have produced one of the bloodiest bouts of the year.
- Peter Queally and Patricky Freire ended their fight looking like they were wearing butcher's aprons.
- Queally said he left a hole in Freire's face because of an elbow strike. WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS.
Photos show Bellator MMA produced one of 2021's bloodiest bouts as two of its fighters looked like they were wearing butcher's aprons at the end of a busy shift, after throwing slugs at a Friday event.
Irish bruiser Peter Queally beat Brazilian fighter Patricky Freire by doctor's stoppage after two rounds of a lightweight bout at the behind-closed-doors Bellator 258 event inside the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
The reason a cageside doctor stopped the fight was because of a hairline cut Queally inflicted onto Freire with repeated elbow strikes, causing blood to waterfall from the wound.
Photos of the carnage the cut caused are shocking.
WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS.
Freire lamented the stoppage, seemingly implying that the blow that did the damage was an illegal strike.
Queally, meanwhile, is looking to move on to Freire's brother, the Bellator lightweight champion Patricio Freire.
"You need to kill me to get me out of here," Queally said after his recent win, in a statement sent to Insider.
"If you think you're going to stop me with leg kicks, you need another plan. It's not going to happen."
He continued: "This is what I love. You know me. I want to fight. A real fight. And that's why I wanted to fight Patricky, and that's why I want to fight his brother next."
Patricio, considered the greatest Bellator fighter of all time, has navigated his way into the company's featherweight Grand Prix final and faces a high-flying, potential superstar-in-the-making, A.J. McKee.
Queally predicts Freire will defeat McKee, and he wants to position himself to be the next in line to take on the champ as it will continue the ongoing feud between the Freire brothers, and John Kavanagh's Straight Blast Gym in Dublin - where Queally trains.
"Let's me and Patricio settle this SBG-Pitbull feud now," he said. "That's the only way to do it. I think he's going to win the tournament against AJ. Good luck to him. And then he should defend his belt against me.
"Let's settle this once and for all. He has to have respect for what I did to his brother there. And if he doesn't want to fight me after that, then I'm going to lose respect for him."
Queally, like Patricky, looked like a bloody mess after their fight
It was not long before Patricio criticized Queally after the fight. "I would be ashamed to call that a win," he tweeted.
"Get beaten for two rounds and then saved by the doctor. A rematch with Patricky is what he's having next."
Queally said: "I put a hole in your brother's head so big that it wasn't medically safe for him to continue. And the judges actually had me up going into round three.
"If you are afraid to fight me, that's fine. But you should just admit your situation, there would be more dignity in that."
With the victory, Queally advanced his pro MMA record to 13 wins (three knockouts and 10 decisions) against five losses.
His was not the only fight on the Bellator 258 card, though, as Sergio Pettis won the Bellator bantamweight title after beating Juan Archuleta by decision.
Anthony Johnson knocked out Jose Barros in a light heavyweight tournament fight, Lorenz Larkin edged Rafael Carvalho, and Michael 'Venom' Page added another highlight to his reel with a first-round finish over Derek Anderson.