Jason Knight has joined the Legitimate Opponents League (PFL) roster.
On Thursday night time, Eric Kowal of MyMMANews.com reported that the damaged-down UFC, BKFC fighter signed with the promotion and is anticipated to assemble his promotional debut on a card scheduled for Aug. 27. Knight finally confirmed the memoir on his social media accounts.
Knight became signed to the UFC in 2015 after collecting a convincing memoir of 16-1 as a educated fighter. He made his debut at The Final Fighter: Crew McGregor vs. Crew Faber Finale in opposition to Tatsuya Kawajiri, nonetheless came up rapid and misplaced by methodology of unanimous choice. Knight would rebound from that loss and earned four straight wins — and three post-battle bonuses — over the likes of Jim Alers, Dan Hooker, Alex Caceres and Chas Skelly between 2016 and 2017.
Knight became unable to retain his newfound momentum going and sadly went on a four-battle shedding sail that incorporated losses to Ricardo Lamas, Gabriel Benitez, Makwan Amirkhani and Jordan Rinaldi. Various weeks after his fourth loss, ‘Mississippi Mean’ became launched from his UFC contract and became attempting a new promotion to compete for. He swiftly found one in Bare Knuckle Battling Championships (BKFC) and signed a one-battle deal to battle fellow damaged-down UFC fighter Artem Lobov.
Knight and Lobov headlined BKFC 5 and fix on rather a memorable efficiency over the direction of 5 rounds. Lobov won the battle by methodology of unanimous choice, nonetheless it and not utilizing a doubt wouldn’t be the very most attention-grabbing time the pair fought each numerous. About seven months later, Knight and Lobov competed in a rematch at BKFC 9. This time, Knight stopped Lobov with a fifth-spherical technical knockout.
Knight returned to blended martial arts competition earlier this 365 days and returned to the snatch column with a second-spherical submission of Cliff Wright at iKon Battling Federation 5. He fought all all over again at the first ever Gamebred Battling Championships — a bare-knuckle MMA occasion attach on by UFC identical old Jorge Masvidal — and defeated Charles ‘Felony’ Bennett by first-spherical rear-bare choke.
At the time of this writing, there isn’t this sort of thing as a phrase on who Knight will seemingly be combating in August when he debuts for PFL. Confidently extra records will seemingly be announced in the arrival weeks.
