For the past couple years Artem Lobov has been a peripheral figure in the feud between Paulie Malignaggi and Conor McGregor. The former world champion boxer was a brief part of McGregor’s training camp for Floyd Mayweather back in 2017, ending up as the punch-line in some now-infamous sparring footage released by McGregor, showing him apparently knocking the boxer down. It didn’t help McGregor win his fight against ‘Money,’ but Malignaggi has been taking shots at the ‘Notorious’ UFC superstar ever since.
Now he’s taking shots at Artem Lobov as well.
Lobov and Malignaggi are both recent high-profile signees to the recent upstart Bare Knuckle FC boxing promotion.