Patricio “Pitbull” Freire has US$1 million dollars ready for Dana White, if the UFC president wants to put his money where his mouth is. Fielding questions at the UFC on ESPN 15 post-event press conference last month, White scoffed at the idea of promoting “super fights” with rival US promotion Bellator, whose CEO Scott Coker claims to have the best light heavyweight division in MMA. One reporter asked White what he thought of Bellator’s two-division champ Freire (30-4), considered one of the best in the world at 155 and 145 pounds. “I don’t know, I honestly couldn’t tell you,” was the answer, which has brought short shrift from the 33-year-old Brazilian. “If he doesn’t know who I am, he’s an idiot,” Freire told SCMP MMA . “But I’m sure he does. His champions know who I am, the fans know who I am, so that’s what matters most.” After getting wind of White’s comments, Pitbull fired off a series of tweets putting forth the idea of a cross-promotional show putting Bellator and the UFC’s champions against each other, even going as far as to offer that lofty wager to the American. Hi @danawhite I'm the one who destroyed steroids machine @MikeChandlerMMA , whom you said deserves a talk, in 61 seconds. If you send some of your top fighters to @BellatorMMA I can do the same to them too. Let's bet like you did with PRIDE. https://t.co/xd52IBplbp — Patricio Freire (@PatricioPitbull) August 23, 2020 “I just don’t think Dana White has the balls to put a cross-promotional fight [together], be it against his featherweight champion or lightweight champion,” Freire said. “Because, if they lose, all the propaganda that he does that the best fighters are under his roof would fall apart. So I don’t think he really has the balls to really bet with me on this. “And from most of the comments that I have seen, people are picking me to beat his featherweight champ, so it’s something nice that would happen. Bellator is coming up and is coming strong. We’re here to stay. There is no thing as the best fighters being in one promotion, there are great fighters everywhere.” UFC featherweight champ Alexander “The Great” Volkanovski (22-1) has expressed interest in taking on Freire, calling it the easiest money White will ever make. Fighting the 31-year-old Australian is no problem in Pitbull’s eyes, but he doesn’t recognise Volkanovski as the true title-holder of the division and deems him an unexciting challenge. “I don’t think he is the real champion right now because I believe Max Holloway beat him so I would have no problem beating Volkanovski and then fighting Max Holloway for the real title,” Freire said. “My hands are faster, I punch harder. He has sort of a boring game like putting guys in the cage and trapping them there like wall and stall. We haven’t seen much of his ground game. Striking wise, I’m much better than him. And my overall game is much better than his. I don’t think he would even touch me. If we fight, I believe I would finish him fast.”