\n The Currock fighter will take on George Thorpe at the Gorilla 2 show in Birmingham on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n
\n Christie, who was a British bare-knuckle champion on the BKFC platform, is now preparing for gloved action against fellow BKFC man Thorpe.\n<\/p>\n
\n The fight, on former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) boxer Darren Till’s Gorilla Promotions, is in Thorpe’s home city of Birmingham.\n<\/p>\n
\n Christie, 41, will aim to show off some of the punching skills against 29-year-old Thorpe that saw him become the BKFC’s British light-heavyweight champion back in 2023.\n<\/p>\n
\n He won five of his BKFC fights and lost three, and was involved in a world middleweight title contest against David Mundell, before announcing his retirement from the platform last year.\n<\/p>\n
\n Christie, speaking on social media, said he is planning to “knock gormless George Thorpe into the middle of next week” at the Gorilla prize-fighter style event.\n<\/p>\n
\n The action is live on DAZN with the show getting under way at 3.30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Currock fighter will take on George Thorpe at the Gorilla 2 show in Birmingham on Sunday. Christie,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487994","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\/487994","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=487994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}