Former two-time welterweight title challenger, Stephen Thompson has revealed he was lately approached by a BKFC (Naked Knuckle Combating Championship) to find out his curiosity in a possible transition to the ring as soon as his UFC deal lapses — a lot to his disinterest, actually.
Thompson, a former two-time welterweight title challenger and perennial contender at 170lbs, most lately returned at UFC 307 again in October in Utah.
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And taking over the streaking knockout ace, Joaquin Buckley, Simpsonville striker, Thompson was stopped with a rallying third spherical end by the previous, handing him his second consecutive stoppage loss following a previous submission defeat to the unbeaten, Shavkat Rakhmonov.
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With out a victory since a late nook stoppage TKO win over the always-active, Kevin Holland in a primary occasion setting again in 2022, Thompson, the present quantity eleven ranked challenger at welterweight, supplied the soon-to-return, Donald Cerrone an attention-grabbing proposal this week within the type of an Octagon conflict.
“So maybe I’m thinking April-May time [for a return to the UFC], I think would be cool just because I’m a huge fan of (Donald) Cerrone and he comes from that old school era that I kind of came from almost 13-14 years ago, so it’s cool that he wants to jump back out there,” Stephen Thompson stated on the Overdogs Podcast.
“I thought it would be awesome if he doesn’t want to cut the weight to 155, maybe to make that fight at 170, I thought it would be really cool to have two veterans like that step back out there and face off against each other,” Stephen Thompson defined. “But nothing booked yet, but that’s what I’m kind of shooting for, that April-May time.”
Stephen Thompson reveals provide for future BKFC transfer
Moreover, throughout the identical podcast interview with present BKFC star, Mike Perry — Thompson revealed he has already put the agency brakes on a current provide to make a transfer to the David Feldman-led promotion sooner or later.
Naked-knuckle (BKFC) got here to Greenville, South Carolina, and I went to it,” Stephen Thompson stated. “I went to it and I think the owner was like, ‘Yo, Wonderboy, when is your contract up with the UFC.’ I’m like, ‘Dude, don’t even. I’m not Mike Perry, bro,’ and he got it, dude. I don’t think I can do the bare-knuckle, bro. You guys, y’all are different animals.” If there was kicking, nonetheless I don’t even assume I might do it if there was kicking, man.”
