A BKFC champion has known as out Gennady Golovkin for a naked knuckle boxing bout and theorizes that it will be a fast affair. Connor Tierney is the Naked Knuckle Combating Championship titleholder in query who known as out GGG just lately. This callout was additionally made within the context of BKFC 81 freshly being within the books with acclaimed newbie and professional gloved boxer James DeGale profitable in the primary occasion but it surely seemingly being a one and finished expertise for him.
The BKFC UK welterweight champion used the medium of his Instagram story to convey this message as Tierney stated,
Connor Tierney captured the BKFC UK welterweight crown in August 2024 towards Jonny Graham. Of their BKFC 64 headlining bout, Tierney authored a unanimous resolution victory over Graham to cement himself because the champion of the promotion’s United Kingdom department.
‘Brum City Bomber’ additionally defended the BKFC UK strap in late-June of this yr towards Danny Christie. Tierney would cease Christie fourteen seconds into the fourth body of their naked knuckle boxing bout once they examined talent at BKFC 77 in the primary occasion.
Gennady Golovkin closes in on potential IBHOF recognition
Gennady Golovkin was within the headlines just lately for issues associated to his large legacy within the candy science presumably being immortalized. The Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame poll in 2026 has been distributed a couple of days in the past with the Kazakhstan native being a frontrunner in these latest inductions conversations. Golovkin is a multi-time middleweight champion on a world scale and has been unified titleholder on a pair of events with one of many strongest runs at 160 kilos in latest reminiscence.
The 43-year-old is within the operating with Vernon Forrest in addition to Steve Collins with all of those pugilists being checked out for the primary time throughout the males’s fashionable class. The outcomes of the voting will likely be made public come early December.
