Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship’s fifth event took place over the weekend, with former UFC fighters Artem Lobov and Jason Knight throwing down in a blood-soaked brawl that had the combat sports world buzzing. It was a thrilling affair for five rounds that ended with Lobov earning a hard-fought unanimous decision . Not that trying to predict pay-per-view numbers based on social media is necessarily accurate, but if you happened to be on Twitter on Saturday night, you’d have noticed there was a huge buzz around BKFC 5 . This web site’s traffic numbers certainly seemed to indicate major interest in the event. So what is it about bare-knuckle fighting that people seem to be so drawn to it? MMA Junkie’s Ben Fowlkes, Mike Bohn and Dave Doyle sound off in this edition of “Triple Take.” Ben Fowlkes: An audience that grew up on cage fighting is ready for something more extreme It feels like forever ago that MMA fans and fighters and promoters were constantly playing defense. We had to argue that our sport wasn’t too brutal or barbaric.
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Triple Take: Why do people seem to be so drawn to bare-knuckle boxing? – MMA Junkie