Vince McMahon Tried To Buy Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (WWE News)
Vince McMahon looked to purchase majority control of BKFC.
With people wondering what's next for disgraced former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, it looks as if the 79-year-old is still keen to be in the promoting game.
Per Justin Barrasso of Undisputed, McMahon actually tried to purchase a majority stake in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship.
BKFC President David Feldman confirmed to Barrasso that he did in fact have a meeting with McMahon, where it simply came down to Feldman not wishing to give up full control of the market-leading bare-knuckle company.
As Feldman explained:
"[Vince McMahon] is a great guy, his whole team is great, but the timing wasn't right for us. He's Vince McMahon. If I were him, I'd want creative control, too. He was awesome, very complimentary, and he was very serious to do business."
This report also notes how, from Barrasso's interactions with executives from both the pro wrestling and combat sports worlds, "the belief is that McMahon will ultimately find himself involved again in professional wrestling".
Now, this comes on the heels of Vince McMahon's new sports, entertainment, and media investment company being formally titled 14th & I recently, with that news surfacing thanks to Connecticut filings from last September being looked into.
This also follows McMahon selling over 1.5 million shares of TKO stock, which, at $158 per share, netted him approximately $250,000,000. Reports from Wrestlenomics' Brandon Thurston at that time said that McMahon still owns 6,442,325 shares in TKO, which represents roughly 3% of the entire company.
Away from Vince McMahon, for those not familiar with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, that's a, well, bare-knuckle fighting organisation that began life in 2018. With over 120 events to its name, the company is also nowadays partly owned by Conor McGregor, who regularly appears at BKFC events and with whom there's constant speculation that Notorious might eventually fight for BKFC depending on his commitments to the UFC.
That said, McGregor hasn't fought for the UFC, or in any capacity, for that matter, since a 2021 loss to Dustin Poirier. That was the Irishman's third loss in four fights, following another defeat to Poirier, being tapped out by Khabib Nurmagomedov, and, between those two fights, a win over 'Cowboy' Donald Cerrone. It's worth noting, the 31st season of the Ultimate Fighter reality series was supposed to lead to a 2023 fight between Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler - the two opposing coaches for that season - that ultimately has still yet to happen, despite Chandler spending the best part of 18 months hoping for that fight to come to fruition.
McMahon is currently facing allegations of sexual misconduct, trafficking, and emotional and physical abuse by former WWE employee Janel Grant. That lawsuit was filed in January 2024, which in turn quickly led to Vince McMahon resigning in disgrace from WWE for a second time. McMahon had previously returned to the company in order to facilitate the sale of WWE to Endeavor and form TKO with the UFC.