Conor McGregor’s MMA return was deflating for many, with a former BKFC champion who never lost his hold on the gold weighing in on the main event of UFC 329. The combatant in question is Alberto Blas, who will defend his BKB Police Gazette diamond super featherweight crown against former BKB featherweight champ Brandon Birr at BKB 58 in Miami on August 29th.
The man McGregor dubbed ‘The Cuban Flash’ captured and then defended the BKFC bantamweight belt before Blas signed with BKB and then shortly thereafter, captured their super featherweight crown against Harold McQueen in his last outing to become a multi-promotion champion. Also, interestingly enough, when Blas defected to BKB and vacated the BKFC crown without losing it in the ring, the former two-division UFC champion liked a social media post that seemed to support Blas’ crossover to BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing whilst a reigning BKFC titleholder.
One of the more widely circulated images of Blas is himself holding BKFC gold next to ‘The Notorious’, and when assessing McGregor’s competitive return in July, Blas said [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“You know, I see the fight and I feel sad. I feel sad because I don’t want the fight to finish like that. But normally when you fight and you stay so long not fighting for five year, something going to happen. Maybe or you win in one or two round. Or you can lose in one or two round. Hopefully happen like that and it’s sad.”
Conor McGregor’s injury was not surprising after a half-decade hiatus, per multi-promotion bare-knuckle champ
Further expounding upon the likelihood of a dramatic injury returning five years after sustaining one of the most dramatic in competition injuries in mixed martial arts history, Blas stated [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“Yeah, normal and normal this kind of thing happen. When you stay almost half a decade [with] no fight or not do nothing, something [was] going to happen, for sure.”
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