Video: ‘Knucklemania’ press conference

Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC

Several stars from the upcoming BKFC pay-per-view event took part in a pre-fight press conference on Wednesday afternoon. Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship is back with a pay-per-view eve…


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Several stars from the upcoming BKFC pay-per-view event took part in a pre-fight press conference on Wednesday afternoon.

Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship is back with a pay-per-view event that is the first of its kind for the promotion. ‘Knucklemania’ is set to take place during Super Bowl Weekend and will be headlined by the promotional debut of former UFC star Paige Vanzant opposite Britain Hart.

Other names expected to be on the card are current BKFC lightweight world champion Johnny Bedford, Dat Nguyen, Chris Leben and Quentin Henry. Bedford will be making the first defense of his lightweight championship in the fight against Nguyen that was rescheduled from November.

Before the event goes down, the starts took part in a pre-fight press conference on Wednesday afternoon. They answered questions from the media for nearly half an hour and concluded with the face-offs of Vanzant and Hart, Bedford and Nguyen and Leben and Henry.

You can view the pre-fight press conference in its entirely in the video embedded above.