Skeptics of UFC veteran and New Jersey MMA staple Kurt Pellegrino’s most recent retirement would seem to have been proven right. Over the weekend, Polish website tychy.pl confirmed that Marcin Held would be fighting on the Bellator 68 card May 13 at an as yet unnamed venue. On Saturday, Joe Rizzo of MMADieHards wrote that Held’s opponent would indeed be Pellegrino and that the location would be somewhere in Atlantic City, New Jersey, citing “a source close to the event.”
While as yet unconfirmed, the manner in which Pellegrino is alleged to end his shortest retirement to date is eminently plausible. At the post-fight press conference of Bellator 59, Pellegrino waffled less than half way through his own retirement announcement and was greeted by a media that called him the “Brett Farve of MMA.”
It is also known that Bellator staff have been actively courting Pellegrino to make a return to their cage since that night. Further, coming off of a recent win against another UFC veteran, Phillipe Nover, Held is the most sensible opponent for Pellegrino on the current Bellator lightweight roster.
Also, given his local hero status in his native New Jersey, it would be highly unlikely for Bellator to deploy Pellegrino anywhere other than Atlantic City.
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