Bare Knuckle FC 5 was a night of bloody fists and faces as fighters mangled each other with endless lacerations. Here’s a look at the post-fight toll it took.
Okay, so sometimes bare knuckle boxing is a joke, like when prelim fighter Sheena Starr came out wearing a “Hillary Clinton is a c**t” shirt or when the promoter declared he’d cut a fighter’s purse in half because he didn’t like the fight. But the main event between UFC vets Artem Lobov and Jason Knight was a brutal and violent display of what happens when two skilled fighters duke it out with no gloves.
Specifically: you get a lot of horrific face and hand trauma.
Pure carnage in the main event @ #BKFC5
Phil Lambert/@bareknucklefc pic.twitter.com/HV9ZLDaoog
— Sascha Alexander (@Sascha_pm) April 7, 2019
Artem Lobov, who won the fight with Knight on points after five rounds, posted a picture from the hospital looking pretty mangled:
But that was nothing compared to the damage he inflicted upon Jason Knight’s face. Look who’s giving Frankenstein’s monster a run for their money.
I still look good! Respect to @RusHammerMMA He went to ICU after a war on PPV @bareknucklefc!! pic.twitter.com/8t4v6rqrzW
— Jason TheKid Knight (@Jasonthekid23) April 7, 2019
We’re still not sure whether Knight spent part of the bout spitting up multiple teeth or if this was mostly gobs from the half bottle of Vaseline “Stitch” Duran was forced to apply to his face to keep it from splitting completely in two. Either way, it was rough. And there was definitely at least one tooth lost:
And here’s the moment Jason Knight lost a tooth. Or teeth.
Credit: Evan Zentar/Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship pic.twitter.com/8FcQ6nJYNs
— TheMacLife (@Maclifeofficial) April 7, 2019
You can watch highlights from their back and forth brawl here or check out the round by round play-by-play here.