Chris Lytle remembers the first time he heard of bareknuckle fighting. “I thought it was crazy,” Lytle recently told MMA Junkie. “I said, ‘What’s wrong with those guys? Who would do bareknuckle fighting?” Lytle first saw bareknuckle boxing in 2017 when he came across a clip of friend and fellow UFC alumnus Joe Riggs chucking knuckles with opponent Christian Evans in Coventry, England, under the BKB banner. At the time, bareknuckle boxing was not sanctioned by any state commissioning body in the United States. “I like Joe (Riggs) and was like, ‘What the hell is wrong with him?’ I watched his fight and halfway through it, I said, ‘I need to do a fight.’ My mind totally changed,” Lytle said. “As soon as I watched it, I was like, ‘This is not what I thought. This is not what it sounds like.’” Lytle made an international ph… Click below to read the full story from MMAJunkie
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