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The Greatest Show in Combat Sports is Coming Back to Philadelphia: KnuckleMania 6!
By Kyle Pagan
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After selling out the Wells Fargo Center (RIP) back in January, Bare Knuckle FC is coming back to the Xfinity Mobile Arena on February 7th:
January’s event was pound for pound (literally) one of the best live sporting events I’ve ever been to. There might be nothing more entertaining than two guys getting in a ring and throwing haymakers at each other until one declares “No mas.” It’s the closest we’ll ever get to Gladiators in a Coliseum. What a lot of them lack in brand recognition they make up for in entertainment and it all starts at the weigh-ins. What other combat league has fighters smashing cannolis on guy’s heads? Spoiler alert: none –
These guys all have a screw loose. I would know because I was on the wrong side of one of them last time we were there. Why you ask? Probably cause I was talking shit, right? Nope. It’s because I didn’t put him in my parlay:
I know ball though. You can’t say I don’t know ball.
I can’t say this enough: Get in the building any way you can on February 7th. They’re going to load the card full of Philly guys, Conor McGregor and other celebrities will be there, and I promise you it’s worth the price of admission. Look at this heavyweight knockout from the last KnuckleMania. You could feel the ring shake like when Mark Henry suplexed the Big Show off the top rope:
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com