WWE celebrity Bobby Lashley has reportedly been supplied a bareknuckle boxing match with Mike Tyson.
The previous WWE champion isn’t any stranger to fight sports activities having competed in combined martial arts for eight years and racking up a 15-2 document.
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And the 46-year-old lately claimed a consultant from a distinguished bare-knuckle boxing promotion approached him about dealing with Iron Mike at Madison Sq. Backyard later this yr.
Lashley informed Fightful Choose the talks weren’t formal and had been extra of a “feeling-out course of.”
Based on DAZN reporter Steven Muehlhausen, the promotion in query was Naked Knuckle Combating Championship.
He tweeted: “Confirmed: The corporate that has approached Lashley is Naked Knuckle Combating Championship (BKFC).
“Lashley has talked with them up to now as has Tyson, however cash was a stumbling block then and isn’t the case now.
“Tyson is again coaching within the gymnasium with Rafael Cordeiro.”
Neither Tyson – who returned to the ring in November 2020 – nor BKFC have commented on the report.
The prospect of sharing the ring with former undisputed heavyweight champion Tyson intrigues former Bellator star Lashley.
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However he is beneath no illusions of the struggle being a straightforward one, saying: “I’m a fighter.
“Am I out right here saying, ‘Yeah, I might go whoop Mike Tyson?’
“That’d be silly for me to say, and that might be disrespectful for me to say, so I’m not saying that.
“I’m simply saying that if I had a chance to struggle Mike Tyson, I’d take it 100 per cent,” he informed Inside The Ropes.
“It will be an enormous honour to struggle Mike Tyson. Take a look at the upside; if I had been to catch ‘Iron Mike’ with a punch to place him down, I’m the best individual on the planet.
“I’m in motion pictures, I’m all over the place, I’m the largest sports activities star in all the world if that ever occurred.”
Tyson, 56, made a spectacular return to the ring in November 2020 for an exhibition bout with fellow nice Roy Jones Jr.
Lashley, in the meantime, final competed in combined martial arts six years in the past – defeating Josh Appelt by way of second-round submission at Bellator 162.
