{"id":283197,"date":"2018-08-19T06:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=283197"},"modified":"2018-08-19T06:40:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:40:28","slug":"ufc-veterans-melvin-guillard-josh-neer-join-growing-wbkff-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/melvin-guillard\/ufc-veterans-melvin-guillard-josh-neer-join-growing-wbkff-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC veterans Melvin Guillard, Josh Neer join growing WBKFF roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Bare Knuckle Fighting Federation (WBKFF) has signed several new MMA veterans to its growing roster. The first is former UFC lightweight and welterweight Josh Neer. The second is former UFC, World Series of Fighting, Bellator, and Rizin veteran Melvin Guillard, who has competed in bareknuckle boxing bouts in the past. The promotion has also signed The Ultimate Fighter 26 veteran\u00a0Christina Marks.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion announced these new signings on social media.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BmpFaJhFoQA\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BmpTeQDlB0z\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BmqVo0hF2pY\/<\/p>\n<p>These are not the only high-profile signings WBKFF has made recently. The promotion also recently signed UFC veterans Phil Baroni and Chris Leben. The pair will fight on the promotion&#8217;s debut show, titled &#8220;Rise of Titans,&#8221; in October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a good fighter,&#8221; Phil Baroni <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-phil-baroni-wants-to-fight-trt-fuelled-vitor-belfort\/\">said<\/a> of his WBKFF fight with Chris Leben on a recent episode of<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-90-ricardo-ramos-phil-baroni\/\"> BJPENN.COM Radio.<\/a> &#8220;Very strong. Very physical and can take it as good as he can give it. I like to watch him. He don\u2019t give a fuck! And I don\u2019t give a fuck either, that\u2019s why we\u2019re doing straight bare fucking knuckle. Behind the the bar style. Take your shirt off and let\u2019s trade bitch. Loser buys. You know the drill. I\u2019m like 86 &amp; 1 and 1 in these type of scraps or some shit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t turn that fight down,\u201d he added. \u201cI can\u2019t turn that fight down, that\u2019s a real fight. And nobody wants to see me fucking take him down in a fight on the ground anyway. So we\u2019re gonna have to go out there and trade, so why not just fucking take the gloves off? You know, fuck it. We\u2019re gonna go out there, we\u2019re gonna trade, we\u2019re gonna meet in the middle of the ring. Fuck it, let\u2019s just take off the fucking gloves then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent press release, &#8220;the WKBFF stable of fighters already exceeds 100 fighters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WKBFF is not be confused with BKFC, the bareknuckle promotion that recently promoted an event in Cheyenne, Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/19\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Bare Knuckle Fighting Federation (WBKFF) has signed several new MMA veterans to its growing roster. The first is former UFC lightweight and welterweight Josh Neer. The second is former UFC, World Series of Fighting, Bellator, and Rizin veteran Melvin Guillard, who has competed in bareknuckle boxing bouts in the past. 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