Conor McGregor Adding Electric Feel to BKFC

As Mike Perry learned, no BKFC fighter is safe from McGregor

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Conor McGregor is worth every bit of the investment from Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship.

Hey Mike youre released and you can go and compete in your smelly dirty boxing championship thing, the smell of it, good luck. You’re fired. @bareknucklefc

— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) July 21, 2024

A co-owner of BKFC, McGregor added electricity to the calm night air after Jake Paul pummeled Mike Perry in the boxing ring on Saturday night. And instead of celebrating Paul, who has yet to beat an actual professional boxer, McGregor went on the offensive, firing Perry for his pitiful performance.

Perry will be back for BKFC, but make no mistake: he did himself no favors on Saturday night. He lacked fundamental boxing traits, like protecting his chin, and for the majority of six rounds served as a punching bag. How exactly does that benefit BKFC?

Most executives and owners won’t publicly criticize, but McGregor has the cachet to do it. And let’s not forget–in addition to fighting, McGregor competed in the most successful crossover bout when he fought Floyd Mayweather in 2017.

Jake Paul is the biggest pissbag I have ever seen in my life. 40 pound weight difference, juiced out of his head, and still shitting himself in there. Nakisa you should take him to Vegas oh that’s right you could never, the athletic commission testing, real testing, real…

— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) July 21, 2024

McGregor is extremely smart. He witnessed Perry, the face of BKFC, lose his aura on Saturday. It wasn’t like Francis Ngannou was the one putting him laying a beating on him, either. Paul is an outsider to the fight world, still fighting to be accepted, and easily criticized because he handpicks his opponents.

In just a few tweets on Saturday, McGregor did what Perry couldn’t. And that’s making sure the BKFC initials meant more by the end of the night than they did at the beginning.