Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship’s Knuckle Mania 3 is going down on February 17th in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In a somewhat surprising turn, the promotion just announced that the official co-main event of the evening will include longtime UFC veteran, Diego Sanchez, in a bare knuckle boxing bout against former WBA light middleweight champion, Austin Trout.
This past December, BKFC received approval from the New Mexico Athletic Commission to host their event at Tingley Coliseum. What did not get approved at the time, however, was the matchup between the now 41-year-old Sanchez and the 37-year-old Trout. That was voted against by NMAC members based off of the state of Sanchez’s fitness level after a high-milage MMA career.