BKFC Knucklemania VI: Andrey Valerievich Arlovski vs. Benjamin Rothwell RBR

I am telling you, it cant change due to what it is. Well, it could change if they stopped bringing in rejects from other sports, but they cant afford to do so.
And even then it could still not work due to the injury rate. Any young talent they bring in will get burnt out relatively fast in comparison to other sports.

BKB has been running since 2015, and what do they have to show for it? The most fights any of their current champions has had is 15, and only 2 of them have 10 or more wins to their names. In fact, a handful of their roster has more than 10 fights to their name.
https://www.bkbbareknuckle.com/brawlers

So yes, while BKFC can be entertaining, I do not think we should accept its existence. Its proof that our societies are decaying and moving backwards. Boxing adopted the usage of gloves, weight classes, Queensberry rules in order to protect the athletes, to make the fights more fair.
And while I am all for freedom of choice, I will not stand for a sport preying on the weak and the downtrodden. Ffs, 3 of BKFC´s current champions are over the age of 40.

 

I mean bro...... boxing still has problems with guys fighting way past their prime too and there's always a backwater commission that will let them fight on anyways. At least BKFC is a level playing field more or less. I've been critical of it as well, the retirement home aspect and fighters lowering themselves. It's definitely gotten a bit better. I've enjoyed a lot of the UFC crossovers namely Perry/Mendes/Alvarez fights. It's more legit that a lot of the other nonsense going on in the combat sports world as well. It's definitely here to stay so we should support it and encourages its promoters to do better.

 

Sure, boxing has en elder issue too, but the sport is not built off of their backs. And frankly, bare knuckle is much more brutal. You yourself have seen how many knockdowns there are in every event, how few fights sometimes make it to the cards, all of the deep cuts the fighters sustain, and how many hand injuries happen.

If the sport was not so brutal, I would not have an issue with it. Whats next, headbutts? Meanwhile in boxing if you wrap your hands a little wrong its treated the same as padding the gloves with heavy material, but at the same time we allow bare knuckle boxing... Its ridiculous.

But BKFC is here to stay, at least for a while, so maybe they can prove me wrong. But I bet even 10 years from now we wont see anyone with a 20 fight record, because no one makes it that far, no matter the age they start.

 

I mean.... sorry bro.

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I like Lethwei too lol.

I'm more worried about a non fighter getting killed in some bs like Street Beefs or some influencer crap.

 

Perry was a popular MMA guy beforehand tho, and even then he only has had 6 bareknuckle fights.

I touched this in an earlier post. My problem with the sport is that its predatory and has built itself off of combatants who were at the end of their careers in other sports.
And I am not buying that bareknuckle is a safer sport when there are so many knockdowns all of the time. Also, its a sport where barely anyone has over 10 fights on their record, let alone 20.

If bare knuckle had actual prospects, or just whomever that they built up themselves, I would be more fine with the sport. Heck, I would probably be fine with the short careers if the sport was filled with its own talent pool instead of building itself off of combatants that were rejected by other sports.