At this point, it’s no secret that Dillon Danis isn’t exactly on a friend-making mission.

For someone with a 1-0 MMA record to his name, Danis sure managed to make himself the target of lot of high-profile names. Some of them, though, didn’t really involve a cage (the inside of one, anyway) – which has a lot to do with the fact that those challenges aren’t coming from fighters currently signed to the same promotion as the grappling ace.

And that’s where Patricky Freire’s offer differs (via Instagram):

Not only is Freire is already part of Bellator’s stable, he also happens to be one of the promotion’s biggest names. Currently riding a four-fight winning streak, “Pitbull” has his sights – justifiably – set on a 155-pound title shot.

Danis, in turn, had what served as both his Bellator and MMA debut in April, at Bellator 198, when he took a first-round submission over Kyle Walker in a 175-pound catchweight bout.

In fact, when you look at where the two stand in both their Bellator and MMA careers, it seems almost unrealistic for this matchup to happen. But Freire, who’d be open to making it a catchweight bout, doesn’t see Danis’ cage inexperience as a deterrent.

“Danis is inexperienced in MMA, but his jiu-jitsu is of very high caliber,” Freire told MMAjunkie. “He’s demonstrated this – and he trains with a very strong team, Conor McGregor’s team. I’m confident he’s no striking novice. He’s been training with McGregor for a long time. In his Bellator debut, he showed good movement.

“He didn’t stand up too much, maybe due to lack of confidence, but I’m sure he’s evolved a lot since then. He’s highly dangerous. And if he’s in MMA, he should be ready to face anyone. I’m sure he won’t take a challenge quietly.”

It has been said that you attract more flies with honey than you do with vinegar, and that seems to be what Freire is doing here. And while we’ve yet to see whether it will work on its target, who remains unbooked after his victorious Bellator debut, it’s a strategy that we know contrasts with Danis’ own M.O.

Freire is well aware of Danis’ outspoken ways. “He likes to provoke people,” Freire said, pointing out that Danis has been causing “controversy” since before his move to MMA – hence, the time Marcelo Garcia suspended Danis indefinitely from his gym.

That, Freire believes, means Danis may have found himself a suitable home at SBG Ireland, where he trained alongside fellow agitator and former UFC champion McGregor for his pro MMA debut.

“SBG’s fighters enjoy talking trash and provoking people,” Freire said. “They talk about things like religion – things that other fighters can’t just swallow. Other fighter don’t see that as just generating business and selling fights. I think Russians are very much like Brazilians in that regard – if you say something, we’ll have to address it or we’ll come to blows. I also felt this type of disrespect. Some of the provocations make me ill.”

We’ve had proof of that quite recently, when a long-running feud between McGregor, UFC champ Khabib Nurmagomedov and their respective teams came to blows after UFC 229. The result was a generalized melee that started when Nurmagomedov hopped off the cage and charged toward Danis, specifically.

Freire and his brother, on their end, had already suggested a “Pitbull Brothers” vs. “SBG” challenge.

Maybe this will be the fight to kick it off?

“He’s in my organization,” Freire said. “When he joined Bellator, he said he’d be the welterweight champion, as well as the lightweight champion. I’m not far from the lightweight belt. If he’s true to his words, he should be ready to bang it out with anyone.”

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