01-05-2025
Carlisle bare-knuckle boxer to make BKFC comeback with title fight
Carlisle bare-knuckle boxer Danny Christie will fight for a British title on his BKFC return this summer.
The Currock fighter's comeback bout, seven months after announcing his retirement, will come against Connor Tierney in Birmingham in June.
And on the line will be the UK welterweight championship, a title Birmingham-born Tierney has held for the last year.
Christie is the former British light-heavyweight champion, who has also fought in the middleweight division.
Now the 40-year-old moves down another weight class to take on 30-year-old Tierney.
The fight features on the card for BKFC 77 which is held at BP Pulse on Saturday, June 28.
It sees Cumbrian Christie back onto the high-profile BKFC scene from which he stepped away last November.
Then, he said he was "fulfilled" by his achievements in the sport and said it was the "perfect time" to walk away.
But in March the powerful puncher returned to the ring to defeat Shaun Rafferty at the Streetbeefz event in Harrow.
He will now attempt to claim the second British title of his bare-knuckle career.
Christie first fought in the BKFC in 2022 and, after victories over Terry Brazier and Darren Godfrey, the Carlisle boxer defeated Anthony Holmes to become UK light-heavyweight champion in 2023.
After a defeat to the American fighter, Christie successfully defended his British title against David Round.
He then moved to the middleweight division, where his first victory against Jimmy Millar earned him a world title shot against the American, David Mundell, who inflicted a second-round defeat on the Cumbrian in Marbella last October.
Tierney has eight wins and two defeats to his name in the BKFC, with his unanimous victory against Jonny Graham last August as he won the UK welterweight title.
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