TAMPA, Fla. – You’ve heard the question a million times, or a version of it, if you’ve watched combat sports press conferences: What does your opponent bring to the table?
There were some unique answers at Thursday’s Bare Knuckle FC 6 news conference, but perhaps none more poignant than ex-boxing champion Paulie Malignaggi, who called out the absurdity of saying something nice about avowed rival Artem Lobov.
“What is this, a (expletive) compliment fest? Get the (expletive) outta here,” Malignaggi said to laughs. “He doesn’t do (expletive).”
Lobov wasn’t in the mood to talk up his opponent, either.
“I actually liked the last guy, and you saw what happened to him,” Lobov said of fellow former UFC fighter Jason Knight, whom he outpointed in a bloody BKFC 5 brawl to set up Saturday’s headliner. “So you can only imagine what I’m going to do to this mother(expletive).”
On Saturday at the Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Hall, the world gets to find out.
Check out all the answers to the question in the video above.
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