BKFC 90: Tierney vs. Franco II is about to transpire on Could thirtieth for the BKFC interim welterweight crown, and a former conqueror of Franco has weighed in on the high-stakes title bout. The combatant in query is LT Nelson, who just lately defended his BKB middleweight crown towards United Kingdom-based slugger Mark Tiffin at BKB 53 by way of emphatic knockout.
Nelson has fairly the historical past of combating standout UK fighters, together with his first bare-knuckle boxing match being towards Rico Franco the place ‘Smash’ secured an enormous scalp over an already established vet in ‘BonBon’. Nelson stopped Franco at BYB 10 within the second stanza of their Mighty Trigon conflict in Could 2022. Franco already had accolades corresponding to being BKB’s Prizefighter light-weight match champion, the place Rico ‘BonBon’ Franco halted Tierney with a fast first spherical KO at BKB 16 in March 2019.
With Franco’s upcoming rematch with Connor Tierney the place they’re working it again in BKFC this time, when requested how he sees that sequel struggle taking part in out between Tierney and Franco, a number of years after their preliminary assembly, Nelson stated [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“I’m not likely certain. I don’t pay large, large consideration to all of that. However I do know Rico Franco’s a gangster. Since that first struggle, if he’s like me, he’s working and getting higher on a regular basis. I’m not likely large on watching that [Connor] Tierney man struggle. So I’m not likely; don’t actually know a lot about him. However I do know he’s a badass. I’ve heard good issues.”
BKFC may have a “technical toe-to-toe conflict” with Tierney vs. Franco 2, per ‘smash’ nelson
As he stored digging into this looming interim BKFC title conflict at 165 kilos in the UK subsequent month, Nelson continued [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“Rico, it’s simply; that’s going to be one other banger. what I’m saying? I do know each of them are going to attempt to stand toe to toe to toe, however they do have good boxing approach and stuff. So, it’ll be a special sort of technical toe-to-toe conflict if you’ll. Huge, large energy to Rico. I believe Rico can take that. He’s a G, man. He’s acquired numerous expertise and the most effective to him.”
