Bellator’s Corrales wants a rematch after losing teeth to Roufusport’s Sanchez

Henry Corrales has come up short in all three of his Bellator MMA fights, but his competition has been very stiff. He debuted against current featherweight champion Daniel Straus, then fought Emmanuel Sanchez, and most recently got choked out by ex-titleholder Patricio Freire.

Although Corrales’ preference is to be in the winning column, he personally asked to fight the best Bellator MMA has to offer and is “happy with” his career, even “coming off three losses.”

However, Corrales is changing things up ahead of his fight against A.J. McKee at Bellator 160 later this month in hopes to win inside the Bellator MMA cage. He recently began training at The MMA Lab in Glendale, Ariz., with some of the top fighters in the sport.

“I’m from Southern California — L.A. County, Orange County area. I’m out here with Benson Henderson at the [MMA] Lab,” Corrales told BloodyElbow.com. “He’s the main event; he’s fighting my last opponent, the Pitbull. My other buddy, Jake Roberts, he’s also fighting on the card. So we’re out here getting ready, all under one roof, just a bunch of high-quality training partners. And my head coach, he moved down here. And my striking coach, Eddie Cha, he’s down here permanently. So I came out here.

“I’m out here during the week and I’m back in Orange County on the weekends with Juliano Prado at Total MMA for my jiu-jitsu and stuff. But that’s been a huge difference for me and it’s going to pay off for this fight. I was down here training two weeks before the Pitbull fight. I liked it so much I was like, ‘Cool, I’m gonna come back here for my next camp.’”

Henderson also fights at Bellator 160 — in the main event — against the aforementioned Freire later this month. Despite having already fought Freire, Corrales hasn’t been giving “Smooth” much advice on how to fight Freire because he believes the former UFC champ will be OK on his own.

“I do have a couple words of advice for him,” he said. “But at the end of the day, Benson’s the man. That guy has so much experience; he knows what he’s …

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