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AJ McKee: Bellator has ‘nothing left for me at featherweight,’ need to ‘make it worth my while to stay’

A.J. McKee just became the Bellator featherweight champion, but his days fighting at 145 pounds are already numbered.

After starting his career with a perfect 17-0 record, McKee needed less than two minutes to vanquish arguably the greatest Bellator fighter of all time in Patricio Pitbull. A head kick followed by a guillotine choke overwhelmed Pitbull before he was ever able to mount any kind of offense, and McKee followed up on a promise to dispatch the Brazilian in record time.

“I knew it was going to be a left kick,” McKee said when speaking to MMA Fighting following his win.