Conor McGregor Reacts To BFF Artem Lobov’s Bare Knuckle FC 5 Win

While Conor McGregor didn’t show up in Biloxi to cheer on his mate Artem, he did take to Twitter afterwards to congratulate him on his gutsy decision win.

Conor McGregor is no stranger to post-event tweetstorms. With no fight signed and nothing to do but hawk his Proper 12 whiskey, the former double champ has taken to hitting social media after every UFC pay-per-view to congratulate fighters and tease a return.

Now he’s back on Twitter to big up his longtime training partner and good friend Artem Lobov, who earned a hard fought bare knuckle boxing decision win against Jason Knight at Bare Knuckle FC 5 (watch the highlights here).

”What an animal!” McGregor wrote. Proud of you, Artem Lobov! Amazing fight. Paulie’s nice and quiet all of a sudden and that’s not like him haha.”

McGregor is referring to Paulie Malignaggi, his scorned former sparring partner who has parlayed his hatred for McGregor into an upcoming fight with Conor’s pal Artem at the next BKFC event in June. They even got into it leading up to Lobov’s fight with Knight, with Malignaggi slapping Lobov at a fight week event. But if a fight’s gonna happen, Bare Knuckle FC better be prepared to pay.

”We want a new contract for the Russian Hammer for this next bout!” McGregor declared. “It has been earned and now deserved!”

And earned it has. Lobov shared photos from the aftermath of his bout and by God does bare knuckle boxing ever mangle its participants. Lobov’s face was cracked open in multiple places from gloveless punches, making us wonder whether he’ll even be cleared to fight come June 22nd when Bare Knuckle FC wants him to face Paulie.

The only person looking worse than Artem was his opponent Jason Knight, who looked like Chucky from Child’s Play. McGregor threw some props out to him as well, and hey … well deserved props at that.

”What a great showing, Jason Knight,” Conor wrote. “Big respect!”