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Former two division UFC champion Conor McGregor made a surprise appearance at BKFC 41, confronting former UFC fighter Mike Perry after the latter’s main event victory.
McGregor, who is a coach on the forthcoming season of TUF, says that he received no gruff from the UFC after appearing at BKFC 41.
“I don’t know [if the UFC was mad],” McGregor said to Ariel Helwani (transcript via MMA Fighting). “No one said anything. The UFC is where it’s at, no matter what. There isn’t nothing above the UFC, and there isn’t nothing that ever will be, and that’s the truth. So I’m sure they had no problem.”
The former two division champion is expected to fight Michael Chandler after TUF 31 concludes, but nothing has been made official at this time.
Despite being a member of the UFC roster, McGregor would be open to a bare knuckle fight in the future.
“I would do it,” McGregor said. “Yes I would do it, and I’d be happy to do it. It’s hard to get a boring fight in it, and it’s actually almost impossible for a boring fight to happen in it, and I’ll tell you why – no other discipline or sport can say that there’s a zero percent chance of having a boring fight.
“Boxing can be a snoozefest, MMA can be a snoozefest — there’s no chance of a boring fight in bare-knuckle because even if it is just a back-and-forth jab match, even a jab splits the skin. So from the split skin causes panic in the ring, and the crowd rises, and there’s zero chance of a boring fight. So it’s interesting. I’d be up for it, for sure. Why not?”
