{"id":833460,"date":"2026-07-30T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/833460\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:07:17","slug":"mcgregor-tipped-to-compete-in-bare-knuckle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/833460\/","title":{"rendered":"McGregor Tipped To Compete In Bare-Knuckle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Sweeney, one of bare-knuckle boxing&#8217;s most accomplished fighters, believes <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor McGregor<\/a> will compete in BKFC once his UFC contract is fulfilled. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think with Conor I think he will fight bare knuckle. I think he will like to try it before he retires from sports altogether. I think he loves the sport so much. Obviously he&#8217;s part owner of the company and he loves the sport so much. So I think it&#8217;s something that he wants to try himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been around that, he&#8217;s seen it. He gets excited over it. So I think we will see him in the near future. Well, after he gets this sort of fight out of the way with the UFC contract, but I do feel like we will see him in the BKFC ring soon,\u201d Sweeney <\/p>\n<p>McGregor tore his ACL in the opening seconds of his UFC 329 rematch against Max Holloway last month and has since targeted a trilogy fight at International Fight Week 2027 as his final contracted UFC bout. After that, BKFC \u2014 a promotion in which he holds an ownership stake \u2014 appears to be the next destination if Sweeney&#8217;s read is correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Sweeney, one of bare-knuckle boxing&#8217;s most accomplished fighters, believes Conor McGregor will compete in BKFC once his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-833460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833460","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=833460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}