The Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship is openly courting UFC alumni Nate Diaz and Eddie Alvarez now that they have entered free agency. The BKFC president, Dave Feldman, told MMAFighting that he believes his organization could offer the likes of Diaz and Alvarez more money than any other option.
“The money’s on the table for him. It’s just a matter now of does he want to fight bare knuckle? That’s all it really is. I’m confident he can make more money with us than he can anywhere else, even fighting Jake Paul. Because if you know what he’s been paying those guys, they’ve been making decent money, don’t get me wrong.
BKFC Pursues Nate Diaz, Eddie Alvarez
The pay-per-views have been doing decent and he can get some upside but I think if he fought a guy like Mike Perry with bare knuckles, I think that’s probably his most popular option out there that he’s going to get the most eyeballs on that.
He could get more on Jake Paul but I think people are getting tired of… not Jake Paul but Jake Paul fighting someone he’s supposed to beat. Not that he was supposed to beat Anderson Silva. I’ll tell you he looked very good in that fight and ended up dropping Anderson Silva, which really, really impressed me, but we’re talking about Nate now.
Nate is someone I’d love to get. It’s someone that I think if he could crossover to this he would bring a lot of MMA fans into this organization and I think it would be great acquisition.” Feldman is also pursuing Eddie Alvarez, a one-time UFC champion who is now also a free agent.
“We’re talking to [Eddie Alvarez]. He has a couple other options on the table. It’s a hard choice for him. He’s a guy who’s a legend in MMA and going over to bare knuckle, like a lot of these guys, he’s not really at the end of his career — I’m not going to say he’s in the prime of his career but he’s not at the end where he has no other options.
He has options with all the other MMA organizations in the world but it is something that we’re talking about and we hope to have an answer early next week. We did our job to try to get him over to BKFC and if that works, that’s great. I like him. He’s a fellow Philly guy so that would be amazing to have someone like that on our roster but we’ll know within the next week.”
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