Den 22:a juni, vid BKFC 6 huvudmatch kommer den tidigare UFC-fightern Artem Lobov möta den tidigare proffsboxaren Paulie Malignaggi i en bareknuckle-match. De båda herrarna har en dispyt som sträcker sig tillbaka till 2017 när Malignaggi tränade med Lobovs nära vän Conor McGregor men lämnade dennes träningsläger i bitterhet.
Som resultat av dispyten blev herrarna kontrakterade av Bare Knuckle FC och Malignaggi nu dock inbokad att möta varandra i en hatmatch.
Lobov börjar dock bli över att Malignaggi inte kommer att klara vikten. Detta är dock det enda han är orolig över inför matchen.
I dagarna medverkade han i podcasten The Delve där han beskrev Malignaggi som en fet soffliggare. The Mac Lifes citerade honom som följande:
It’s only nine or eight weeks now until the fight. He needs to learn the trade of the clinch. He needs to learn the different pace. He needs to get in shape because he just came off the couch. Big fat pudding. I’ve seen him. Who is going to coach him now? He needs fucking weight watchers to coach him. That’s who he needs to coach, because he’s just a fat guy off the couch. He asked for the fight to be at 154-pounds when he used to fight at 140. What does that tell you? Lazy and fat. Can’t make the weight. Doesn’t want to make the weight. Doesn’t want to stop eating the pizza. Doesn’t want to put the box of donuts down.
I find it hard to even worry about this fight. What is he going to do? Even in Conor’s spar for example, they did the twelve rounds but the only reason he somehow made it to the twelve round’s end because he did nothing. He was very, very passive. He never let the right hand go, he threw a couple of jabs and covering up the whole time. The head gear and the big gloves, of course, that saved him. So what’s he going to do? Honestly, I’m just thinking back to that spar where I got to witness him live, watched a bunch of his fights now, what’s he going to do to me?
Ni kan se hela intervjun med Lobov i videon nedan:
