Fighter vs. Writer: BKFC 41 Preview Show With Luke Rockhold, Mike Perry and Chad Mendes

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🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of perhaps the biggest BKFC card in history, The Fighter vs. The Writer will be headlined by three of the fighters competing on Saturday including both main event athletes as Luke Rockhold and Mike Perry join the show. Rockhold will fight for the first time since retiring but then securing his UFC release so he could pursue a career outside the octagon. He will now compete in bare-knuckle for the first time ever while taking on a BKFC veteran in Perry. Rockhold will address his decision to return to action while also discussing his issues with the UFC and hopes that more athletes will stand up for themselves when it comes to money and opportunities. Perry also joins the show to talk about the fight with Rockhold and his expectations clashing with a former UFC champion who has never fought bare-knuckle previously. Perry will also react to the recent news that Nate Diaz will fight Jake Paul in a boxing match as well as Diaz’s wild weekend filled with street fights in New Orleans. Finally, Mendes joins the show to preview his fight with Eddie Alvarez and he’ll address if this will possibly be the final bout of his entire career. Mendes explains why he decided to come back in the first place and the conflicted feelings he’s had about continuing on past the matchup against Alvarez. All this and more on the latest episode of The Fighter vs. The Writer! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify Read More: MMA Fighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:21.2	Welcome back to the fighter versus the rider, I am Damon Martin and a little special show
0:26.6	this week because my normal co-host, Mr. Matt Brown, of course, is gearing up for his
0:31.2	fight in a couple of weeks against Court McGee at UFC Fight Night from Charlotte. So with
0:36.5	Matt kind of tied up and busy, we are going to try to record something beforehand, but
0:40.9	training schedules are what they are guys get busy and I don't ever fault anyone for
0:44.4	trying to focus on fighting when they actually have a big fight coming up. So the next
0:48.9	couple of weeks will be getting some guests on here, some guests host on here and doing
0:54.1	some fun things while we wait for Matt to return after his fight on May 13th. So with
0:58.8	that being said, coming over last weekend where we had the big boxing match with Javante
1:03.4	Davis getting the win over Ryan Garcia. I want to say I called that one, thankfully that
1:07.7	was on the preview show on MMA fighting if he missed it. It was very happy to call that
1:11.2	one correct. And of course the UFC event where Sergei Pavlovich, my god, what a monster
1:17.2	that guy has got a big one over Curtis Blades. But remember right into next weekend, which
1:21.3	is of course there is a UFC event song you don't take it on Ricky Simone in the main
1:25.4	event. Another UFC apex card kind of boo on that whole thing. I don't really like the
1:30.1	apex cards anymore, but it is what it is. But the biggest card this weekend in my opinion
1:35.3	is BKFC 41 bear knuckle fighting championships as a massive card going on in Denver, Colorado
1:41.0	headline by Mike Perry against Luke Rockle and of course Chad Mendes taking on Eddie Alvarez
1:46.9	Ben Rothwells on the card. Beck Rollings is on the card against Christine for error.
1:52.4	That's an incredible fight. This is the fight card of the weekend. So I thought what better
1:56.0	way to gear up for BKFC 41 than to do a full preview show and feature some of the biggest
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