\n The Currock fighter has joined the bill at the Gorilla 2 show in Birmingham in March.\n<\/p>\n
\n Christie will fight fellow BKFC man George Thorpe.\n<\/p>\n
\n They will go head to head at Birmingham’s Bingley Hall on Sunday, March 22.\n<\/p>\n
\n Christie, who retired from the high-profile BKFC last year, continues to box on other platforms.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 41-year-old will take on the 29-year-old Thorpe in a fight that promoters Gorilla have described as “an absolute banger”.\n<\/p>\n
\n Gorilla, founded by former UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) boxer Darren Till last autumn, held its first show in Liverpool last week.\n<\/p>\n
\n Christie will now aim to star at the second show with the skills that earned him high billing during his BKFC career.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Cumbrian became UK light-heavyweight champion in 2023 before earning a world title shot at middleweight in 2024.\n<\/p>\n
\n After his defeat to Birmingham’s Connor Tierney last summed, Christie announced he was stepping down from the BKFC for the second time with a record of five wins and three defeats.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fellow Cumbrians continuing to fight on the BKFC platform include Egremont’s European heavyweight champion Agi Faulkner and Carlisle bantamweight Kieron Sewell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Currock fighter has joined the bill at the Gorilla 2 show in Birmingham in March. Christie will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-391509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}