Francisco Trinaldo won twice under the Dirty Boxing Championship banner and now wants to chase a big fight with the co-owner of the promotion Mike Perry.<\/p>\n
A 47-year-old veteran with 26 appearances under the UFC banner over more than a decade, \u201cMassaranduba\u201d won three straight since leaving the UFC in 2022, scoring a bareknuckle MMA win over Sasha Palatnikov in 2024 before back-to-back DBX victories earlier this year.<\/p>\n
With past wins over the likes of of Paul Felder, Jim Miller, King Green and John Makdessi in the UFC, Trinaldo has made it clear that his desire is to face \u201cPlatinum\u201d for his \u201cKing of Violence\u201d title in BKFC.<\/p>\n
\u201cBareknuckle boxing is also interesting because it\u2019s a promotion for MMA fighters,\u201d Trinaldo told MMA Fighting. \u201cMy goal is to fight Mike Perry down the line. He\u2019s saying there\u2019s no one to beat him? I think there is. He\u2019s fought some good guys, right? He\u2019s done well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perry is unbeaten in six matches under the BKFC banner against Luke Rockhold, Jeremy Stephens, Eddie Alvarez, Michael Page, Thiago Alves and Julian Lane. Trinaldo said he really enjoyed competing under DBX rules and wants to capture the welterweight title.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll win the belt [at DBX] and then go to [BKFC] and challenge him,\u201d Trinaldo said. \u201cHe knows that. I told him in person, that I want to fight him. He owns [DBX], him and Jon Jones, and I\u2019ve told him, \u2018We\u2019ll meet one day.\u2019 And he just smiled, said I\u2019m a good fighter. He was all dressed up nice so I won\u2019t cause a scene at his event, but I\u2019ve already told him that in person.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trinaldo revealed he\u2019s currently a free agent after his recent bout and isn\u2019t interested in signing an exclusive deal with any promotion at age 47. Instead, he wants to chase good competition to prove his worth \u2014 and hopefully set up the BKFC clash with Perry.<\/p>\n
\u201cMassaranduba\u201d said he\u2019s not done competing in MMA either but it\u2019s been \u201cquite hard\u201d getting fights. Trinaldo won five of his past seven in the UFC between 2019 and 2022 and hasn\u2019t fought in the sport since, and said he was approached with offers to face Damir Ismagulov in Russia but \u201cthey cancelled it when they heard I\u2019m still doing great in the gym.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy fuel to fire, to tell you the truth, is my boy,\u201d Trinaldo said. \u201cI want him to watch me fight [MMA]. He was too young when I was in the UFC, and now he\u2019s 8. I\u2019m fighting for him, so he sees what\u2019s like. He gets excited and asks me a bunch of questions. I\u2019m like, \u2018You have to train hard to be better than daddy.\u2019 [laughs]. But he says he\u2019ll be better than me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francisco Trinaldo won twice under the Dirty Boxing Championship banner and now wants to chase a big fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":["post-311010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}