{"id":46011,"date":"2025-08-05T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/46011\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:20:10","slug":"snoop-dogg-shares-footage-of-egremont-bare-knuckle-boxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/46011\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg shares footage of Egremont bare-knuckle boxer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Egremont fighter&#8217;s brutal contest with Dawid Oskar last November earned Faulkner the BKFC European heavyweight title.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And when footage of the ferocious contest reappeared on social media last week, legendary rapper Snoop Dogg was among those to share it &#8211; to his 88.6 million followers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DMzzq50xsaU\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The footage showed Faulkner and Oskar trading powerful blows from the off in their title fight at Newcastle last November.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Snoop Dogg shares footage of Agi Faulkner's title fight\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Snoop Dogg shares footage of Agi Faulkner&#8217;s title fight (Image: Instagram)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Faulkner floored Oskar early on before his opponent fought back with some formidable punches of his own.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Cumbrian responded in a relentless contest which saw Oskar blood-streaked by the end of the first round, with Faulkner then sealing victory by knockout early in the second round.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Snoop Dogg&#8217;s sharing of the footage on Instagram attracted 201,000 likes and 3,219 comments as the rapper&#8217;s followers were introduced to Faulkner&#8217;s punching power.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Faulkner won the BKFC European heavyweight title with a ferocious victory over Dawid Oskar last year\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Faulkner won the BKFC European heavyweight title with a ferocious victory over Dawid Oskar last year (Image: BKFC)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 36-year-old from Egremont, who is unbeaten in his three BKFC fights, is now a major figure on the top bare-knuckle platform.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He is preparing for his latest fight, which is expected to be in Italy, with details yet to be confirmed. Faulkner is expected to move to cruiserweight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Faulkner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsandstar.co.uk\/news\/25309848.bkfc-agi-faulkner-eyes-25m-conor-mcgregor-tournament\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also recently flew to Hollywood<\/a> to take part in a major press conference which saw the announcement, by BKFC bosses David Feldman and Conor McGregor, of a new $25m &#8220;World&#8217;s Baddest Man&#8221; tournament which is due to begin in the USA next year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Faulkner spoke of his eagerness to be involved in the lucrative open-weight tournament. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re in the game for, isn\u2019t it?\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m here for now. Find out who the baddest man in the world is.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cLet\u2019s get me in this tournament. We\u2019ll soon find out.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Egremont fighter&#8217;s brutal contest with Dawid Oskar last November earned Faulkner the BKFC European heavyweight title. And&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-46011","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\/46011","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=46011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}