Conor McGregor would like to see Justin Gaethje commerce in his four-ounce gloves for a pair of hand wraps.
In April, the Irish megastar shocked everybody when he revealed that he was now a component proprietor of Naked Knuckle Combating Championship, one of many fastest-growing manufacturers in all of fight sports activities. Bringing his identify to the bustling world of naked knuckle boxing, there’s no telling what may occur or who may present up contained in the squared circle.
Throughout a latest interview with TheMACLife forward of his extremely anticipated return to the Octagon at UFC 303 on June 29, the previous two-division champion advised that the BKFC may give new life to MMA fighters in search of a change of tempo.
Conor McGregor would quite see fighters go to BKFC than one other MMA promotion
Throughout the dialog, ‘Mystic Mac’ advised {that a} transfer from the cage to the ring for former BMF titleholder Justin Gaethje can be a really thrilling sight to see.
“We’ve seen former UFC champions or UFC veterans transfer to different combined martial arts promotions,” McGregor mentioned. “We’ve seen them struggle MMA all their profession and now they nonetheless struggle MMA. It doesn’t pop for me. Now let’s take Justin Gaethje, who’s a UFC veteran, former BMF holder, interim belt holder — take him, let’s put him in naked knuckle. That’s thrilling. That’s actually, actually thrilling.
“Now let’s take him and put him in one other MMA group, not so [exciting].”
From the beginning, the BKFC has bolstered its identify on the again of present and former MMA stars together with Luke Rockhold, Chad Mendes, Eddie Alvarez, Thiago Alves, Michael ‘Venom’ Web page, and, in fact, its largest identify of all, ‘Platinum’ Mike Perry.
It seems as if one other former UFC champion could possibly be toeing the road earlier than lengthy.
Corridor of Famer ‘Ruthless’ Robbie Lawler was just lately noticed alongside BKFC founder and president David Feldman, resulting in fast hypothesis that the ex-welterweight champion could possibly be knuckling up in opposition to the likes of Mike Perry earlier than lengthy.
