Russian veteran Vagab Vagabov just handed Yoel Romero the first bare knuckle loss of his career.<\/p>\n
The two threw down just moments ago as the main event of IBA Bare Knuckle 4, which is the same promotion that Jon Jones now represents as an ambassador<\/a>. The Vagabov vs. Romero fight lasted the full five two-minute rounds and was quite competitive. Though it was marked by periods of inactivity, Vagabov landed some heavy shots and bruised up the 48-year-0ld Romero\u2019s face, resulting in the decision victory.<\/p>\n Vagabov may not be a household name, but he\u2019s been in the game for a very long time. At age 40, Vagabov holds a professional MMA record of 30-1-1, competing for promotions like M-1 Global and Fight Nights Global, as well as a brief stint in the World Series of Fighting (WSOF). More recently, he\u2019s been competing in various forms of striking, with and without gloves.<\/p>\n Former UFC champion Jon Jones was in attendance for the bout and entered the cage afterward to offer his thoughts on the main event. Vagabov took the opportunity to shoot his shot, calling out Jones for a bare knuckle boxing match while standing opposite the semi-retired great.<\/p>\n Jones respectfully declined the invitation. \u201cI would love to fight bare knuckle,\u201d Jones said with a laugh. \u201cBut not these two animals. No, no, no, I\u2019m good.\u201d<\/p>\n Unfortunately for Jones, he\u2019s in the midst of some contract drama<\/a> with the UFC and definitely isn\u2019t allowed to fight anywhere else. \u201cBones\u201d desperately wanted to compete at the UFC White House card, but the promotion refused to agree to his financial terms and didn\u2019t seem particularly opening to negotiating. Worse still, UFC CEO Dana White declared Jones was never in consideration<\/a> and essentially sent him back to retirement<\/a> in his public statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian veteran Vagab Vagabov just handed Yoel Romero the first bare knuckle loss of his career. The two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,34465,802,40762,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-571452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bare-knuckle-boxing","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571452","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=571452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}