Former two-division UFC champion, has claimed he will make good on a long-rumored move to the BKFC (Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship) in the coming future — and plans to fight a “random” bout on the card, without any promotion of his return to boot.
McGregor, a former undisputed lightweight titleholder and featherweight gold holder during his tenure with the UFC, appeared at a press conference overnight in Philadelphia, promoting this weekend’s BKFC Knucklemania V headliner between former-foe, Eddie Alvarez and Octagon veteran, Jeremy Stephens.
Yet to book his return to the Octagon amid links to a fall comeback by UFC CEO, Dana White, McGregor was forced out of a June return fight last summer, after fracturing a toe just weeks out from a headliner with rival, Michael Chandler during International Fight Week.