Former UFC veteran, and current HDNet color commentator, Frank “Twinkle Toes” Trigg (20-8) has agreed to meet Welsh striker John “The White Mike Tyson” Phillips (13-3) at an upcoming BAMMA 6 event.
MMAFighting.com confirmed the signing with Trigg’s manager Sam Spira on Friday.
BAMMA 6 is scheduled to take place on May 21 at the Wembley Arena in London, England. The event also includes other notable names such as Phil Baroni, and Murilo “Ninja” Rua who meets BAMMA 185 lb champ Tom Watson in the main event for that promotions title.
Trigg is 1-2 in his last three fights, winning his last bout in November at a Israel FC” Genesis event, winning a first round TKO. Both of the two losses were under the UFC banner and both were by first round knockout. “Twinkle Toes” was KO’d by Matt Serra at UFC 109 and by Josh Koscheck at UFC 103.
Phillips has fought exclusively in Europe and is riding a five fight win streak at this time. “The White Mike Tyson” has earned twelve of his thirteen wins by (T)KO over his six year career. He has only fought into the third round once, and ended up losing a unanimous decision to Watson, the current BAMMA middleweight champ. His last fight took place in the fall on the BAMMA 4 card, earning a first round knockout win over fellow Brit James Zikic.