Determined Peter Queally back in his best and worst of venues

Bellator becomes the envy of every mixed-martial-arts promotion each time Peter Queally emerges in front of the partisan Irish crowd at 3 Arena.

In full voice, the Irish fans bellow every world of 'Zombie' by The Cranberries as the Waterford man makes his final walk to the cage. Footage of his emphatic entrance is all but sure to go viral each time it happens, harking back to the infamous night in 2014 when Conor McGregor put the fighting world on notice with a quick dispatch of Diego Brandao.

"This arena, it's my whole career," said Queally, sitting in a plush room in the Gibson Hotel, walking distance from Friday’s night’s battleground, which will host his meeting with former UFC and WEC champion Benson Henderson.

"This is what made me in the fight game. In my early days, I was gaining a lot of acclaim from people in the know for my tours of Russia and South Africa, but the general public didn’t know anything about it. Without the fights here, I don’t know if I would have been able to breakthrough in the way that I have."

The Star of the Show

Although he was one of the most established pros signed during Bellator’s heavy European recruitment campaign in 2018, nobody would have expected the battle-hardened SBG fighter to become the star of Bellator’s Dublin soirées.

Keep going back to this today. Can't think of a better, more emotionally-charged walkout in 2021. Love the way it was shot, too. pic.twitter.com/x6K9wuR0br

Having cut his teeth among the golden generation of Irish MMA fighters, Queally always had an old-school mindset, letting his fighting do the talking for him.

He values attrition and grit over showmanship and social media savvy, some of the most valuable currency in today’s fight game. Based on Bellator’s capture