When Conor McGregor He became co-owner of BKFC last April, his future landing as a fighter in the bare-knuckle boxing company could be seen coming. After a forced break due to injury in the UFC, and with only two more fights in his contract with Dana White’s companythe Irishman has shown a love for bare-knuckle fights that we will see in Marbella next October 12.
That being the case, it is not surprising that he had already informed the president and founder of BKFC, David Feldman, his partner, that He has already made the decision to fight in his company. “Unless he wanted to sell me smoke, in the conversations we have had He let me know that he was going to fight here“Feldman told ‘MMA Fighting’. “When I told him the possibility he said, ‘Yeah, sure. I’m going to fight here.'”
Unless he wanted to sell me smoke, in the conversations we have had he let me know that he was going to fight here.
McGregor lifts the BKFC belt against Tenaglia and Soto.
McGregor himself confessed the option to MARCA, along with other Spanish media, last July, in Marbella: “I’ll also be a Bare Knuckle fighter if I want. I only get involved in things that have meaning for me, that motivate me, that I enjoy. I always make real and deep decisions. “I will not endorse something or profit from something I do not believe in.”
I’ll also be a Bare Knuckle fighter if I want. I only get involved in things that have meaning for me, that motivate me, that I enjoy.
A great asset
With Feldman aware of McGregor’s value in any type of market, he knows that His name alone would send BKFC shares skyrocketing and with that motivation he tries to awaken Conor McGregor’s feelings and desire to fight in his own company: “I asked him: ‘why don’t you fight here? You have shares in the company and, if you fight here, you will probably You’ll make more money than anywhere else in the world.'”
Conor McGregor, during the BKFC presentation in Marbella.
It must be remembered that in the interview backstage at Wembley that Ariel Helwani conducted in the event between Dubois and Joshua, Conor assured that after the two fights that he still has left in the UFC by contract, he would become a free agent, leaving the door open to any type of collaboration that he did not want to confirm or deny. Of course, on the part of BKFC they know that the White-Feldman association is not possible.
“The UFC doesn’t need us“Feldman said.”We do need your help and your convening power. and promotion with them, but not them with us. It would be phenomenal, but they are not going to do it.” Likewise, the president ofBare Knuckle He does not believe that McGregor came to his company just for the pleasure of investingbut believes that its commitment to the brand goes further:
“It’s been amazing having him so far. Exceeded all my expectations. Doing interviews, he was at the post-fight press conference, he met with the guys. He approached, hugged the fighters and I told them: ‘Come on, let’s do it!’ I was sitting in the front row cheering them on. Post about it all the time.. “He’s completely committed.”
He would come up, hug the fighters and say, ‘Come on, let’s do it!’ I was sitting in the front row cheering them on. Post about it all the time. He is fully committed
“We had a great conversation this weekend, it was just me and him, and I said, ‘I don’t know if you really believe me, but This is going to be the biggest thing in the world in a few years.there will be nothing bigger than this, believe me.’ AND He replied: ‘It will be in two years’“Feldman confessed.
Feldman admits that the exponential growth of BKFC in recent years has exceeded even his greatest expectations, and he hopes that McGregor will help them grow even more in the future: “Conor has a vision, Will we ever be the biggest combat sport in the world? probably notbut definitely we will be one of the greatest. Absolutely. “The numbers keep going up.”
