When the day comes for Paulie Malignaggi and Artem Lobov to actually throw hands, they’ll already have laid out plenty of promotional groundwork.
Lobov is actually set to fight fellow former UFC featherweight Jason Knight this Saturday in the main event of Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 5 in Biloxi, Mississippi, but you might not know it given that he has his sights set on a future bare-knuckle match with Malignaggi (who signed with the promotion in March), and vise-a-versa.
The two had the chance to meet face-to-face at a media day in New York on Tuesday and sure enough, the sparks immediately flew.