HONOLULU – Danny Sabatello is ready to turn the page.
After submitting Marcos Breno in his return to the Bellator cage, “The Italian Gangster” wasted no time calling for his next fight.
“I want Magomed Magomedov in Chicago, June 16,” Sabatello said in his in-cage post-fight interview with John McCarthy. “That’s one and a half months. I’m already done with this motherf*cker I just beat, and I want Magomed Magomedov, June 16 in Chicago in my homeland.”
Sabatello (14-2 MMA, 4-1 BMMA) submitted Breno (15-3 MMA, 1-1 BMMA) with a rear-naked choke in the second round of their bantamweight contest on the main card of Friday’s Bellator 294, which took place at Neal S. Blaisdell Arena.
The American Top Team product really hopes Magomedov is next, but more importantly, he wants a chance to fight in his hometown no matter who he has to face.
“I need to fight June 16th in Chicago,” Sabatello told reporters at the Bellator 294 post-fight news conference. “That is my homeland. That is my f*cking people. My friends and fans, some of my teammates are out there. Everybody that I know is out there in Chicago. I need to bring the house down, so we can sell that sh*t out and the crowd will be chanting Sabatello. It’s going to be a sick ass venue for me.
“… I’m hoping it’s Magomedov because he’s been running his mouth at me. I think that’s a massive fight and I think it puts me on track to a title fight after that. But give me f*kcing anybody, I just hope Magomedov is man enough to fight me in my hometown.”
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Danny Sabatello calls out Magomed Magomedov for ‘massive’ Bellator 297 home fight in Chicago