According to Micheal Fiedel of The Body Lock Ken Shamrock’s bare knuckle boxing promotion Valor Bare Knuckle has signed former UFC and Bellator heavyweight Lavar Johnson. That report states that the 42-year-old Johnson is slated to fight veteran MMA fighter James McSweeney this Saturday at the promotion’s inaugural show in New Town, ND.
Johnson competed for the UFC between 2012 and 2013 before joining Bellator, who he fought for until 2014. In 2015 Johnson was arrested in Fresno, CA and charged with corporal injury to a spouse/cohabitant, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, and dissuade by force.