Conor McGregor believes Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship is a better place for former Ultimate Fighting Championship athletes than other mixed martial arts promotions.
of BKFC earlier this year. Explaining his interest in the organization, McGregor said he sees the MMA promotions space as kind of saturated with the UFC established as a clear industry leader.
“We’ve got the UFC as the premier mixed martial arts organization and the rest of them aren’t really anything right, let’s be real. The rest of them, their best events are past fighters of the UFC maybe fighting each other or maybe fighting someone in the mid-level. It doesn’t really generate mega buzz for me, or for the fans, judging by the numbers,” McGregor recently toldwho’s a UFC veteran, former BMF holder… interim belt . Take him, let’s put him in bareknuckle, that’s exciting.
“It’s different, it actually blends well with the UFC, which I’m very very happy about,” he said. “And I believe it’s music to the ears of the Ultimate Fighting Championship that I am part of this. It just dissolves the competition. It has popped the UFC’s competition like a balloon, it deflated it like a popped balloon.”
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