Jessica Eye is ready to formally return from retirement when she makes her bare-knuckle debut towards fellow octagon veteran Mariya Agapova on the upcoming BKFC 76 card on June 21 from Fort Price, Texas.
BKFC officers confirmed the information to MMA Preventing on Wednesday.
Eye, a 27-fight MMA veteran, retired from competitors again in 2022 after she suffered a fourth consecutive defeat within the UFC. The previous UFC title contender stayed out of the game till saying her plans to return to motion again in April after inking a deal to affix the roster at BKFC.
At her peak, Eye was one of many high girls’s fighters on this planet with rankings at each bantamweight and flyweight all through her profession. She reached the head in 2019 when she fought for the UFC flyweight title, however she suffered a head-kick knockout loss to Valentina Shevchenko.
As for Agapova, the 28-year-old fighter got here storming into the UFC with a formidable debut again in 2020, however the honeymoon was over one battle later when she suffered a loss to Sabina Mazo. Following that loss, Agapova went simply 1-3 in her last 4 fights with the UFC earlier than being faraway from the roster in July 2024.
Now Agapova makes the transfer to bare-knuckle combating with a showdown booked towards Eye as a part of the primary BKFC card in Texas.
The upcoming BKFC 76 card is headlined by a title battle rematch between Franco Tenaglia and Tony Soto after they went to battle in one of many craziest bouts in bare-knuckle historical past with Conor McGregor rewarding each fighters with double their purse cash as a reward.
