BKFC boss David Feldman isn’t holding out hope that the UFC will loan Conor McGregor to his bare-knuckle fight promotion, but he figures there’s no harm in asking.
The former two-division UFC champ McGregor, who still has two fights left on his contract with the MMA promotion, recently became a part-owner of BKFC, and has been a recurring presence at its recent events.
He was front and centre at last weekend’s KnuckleMania 5 card in Philadelphia, and at the end of the night, got face-to-face with main event winner Jeremy Stephens, planting the seeds for a future clash in the BKFC ring.
The only problem is McGregor’s UFC contract. He remains the biggest star in MMA history, so the promotion surely isn’t going to give him up to a rival combat sports outfit. Not even if Feldman and UFC boss Dana White are on good terms.
Feldman knows that’s the reality of the situation, but is considering broaching the idea anyway, just in case. He opened up on the possibility on a recent episode of the Helwani Show.
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“Any time you get those kinds of moments it’s awesome, but I can’t do [a McGregor vs. Stephens fight] unless the UFC wanted to do something with us,” Feldman said. “They don’t need us for anything, but maybe they would, right? Other than that it doesn’t happen.
“We’re growing at a really great pace right now — not that they’re concerned about us,” Feldman added. “They’re not. If something like [a McGregor fight] happens, it just moves us up five or 10 more pegs. I don’t think that they want to help us grow, and I think that helps us grow tremendously, but who knows? It is worth a shot. Maybe we’ll take that shot in the next week or two.”
