Former two-weight UFC titleholder, Conor McGregor has as soon as extra confirmed he’ll make a transfer to the BKFC (Naked Knuckle Preventing Championship) within the close to future, because the Dubliner grows more and more stressed amid his absence from the Octagon.
McGregor, a former undisputed light-weight and featherweight champion beneath the banner of the UFC, has been out of motion for greater than three years, most just lately fracturing his tibia and fibula in a primary spherical physician’s stoppage TKO loss to Dustin Poirier.
Withdrawing from a scheduled return in the primary occasion of UFC 303 again in June on the welterweight restrict, ex-champion, McGregor fractured a toe forward of an Worldwide Struggle Week headliner with Michael Chandler, scuppering the pairing.
And while concentrating on a new-year return in opposition to Chandler, McGregor’s would-be opponent has himself already booked a UFC 309 return in a 5 spherical rematch struggle in opposition to former champion, Charles Oliveira at Madison Sq. Backyard.
Conor McGregor planning BKF transfer, in keeping with David Feldman
Weighing up a future transfer to the BKFC, McGregor, who pressured how he solely retains two fights on his present UFC contract, has welcomed the prospect to compete within the ring in keeping with promotional chief, David Feldman.
“Until he’s the most effective salesman on this planet, the talks that we’ve had it’s like, ‘I’m combating right here [in the BKFC],’” David Feldman informed MMA Preventing of Conor McGregor. “I’m like, yeah, OK. He [said] ‘I’m combating right here.’”
“I am going, ‘Why wouldn’t you struggle right here?’ As a result of you will have fairness within the firm and if you happen to struggle right here, you’ll most likely earn more money than wherever else on this planet due to what it’s going to do for the corporate,” Feldman defined. “So, I actually imagine what you mentioned — I feel one hundred pc he fights right here.”