Joe Rogan has called for UFC legend Conor McGregor to take on Mike Perry in a bare knuckle fight - insisting it "would be wild".
McGregor and Perry faced off after the latter defeated former UFC middleweight champ Luke Rockhold at BKFC 41 in April (Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship). McGregor jumped into the ring with the BKFC belt around his shoulder after Perry called him out.
The spicy encounter went viral on social media and fighting commentator Rogan revealed his desire for Perry to fight McGregor after the BKFC star appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. He thinks the fight would get at least one million pay-per-views.
Rogan said: "If he [McGregor] decided to do that, if somehow or another they [UFC] gave him the green light to do that, I can’t imagine how that could ever happen, but if it did, if that happened in a bare knuckle fight, that would be f****** bananas.
"He’s a very good kicker, he can do everything, but if somehow or another he agreed to fight bare-knuckle... how big that would be? My Lord... that would be wild. If they did that in bare-knuckle, it would get a million pay-per-view buys at least, probably more."
Perry, 31, is a former UFC star and boasts a 3-0 record in BKFC. McGregor, 34, hasn't fought in UFC since his most recent loss to Dustin Poirier in July 2021. Furthermore, the Irishman has had just four UFC bouts since beating Eddie Alvarez in November 2016.
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Yet McGregor insists he's not retired. In his relatively friendly face-off with Perry, the former UFC champ told him "I'll fight you no problem" and "I'm never retiring". McGregor also paid tribute to BKFC while speaking to the audience from the ring.
He said: "It's an incredible set up here, incredible matchmaking, incredible storytelling - I had to come here! I flew straight away, I was not going to miss this. It did not disappoint. All these fighters who step in here are warriors and have my respect. I'm into this game."
Perry recalled his face-off with McGregor while talking to Rogan. He said: "He [McGregor] was moving all over the place, and I stood my ground. I stood so still, and I couldn’t be wavered or moved.
"He was moving all over the place. I mean, that says that he was free in that moment to do so, obviously. But it was me respectfully calling him out, which shows the professional in martial arts that I have been for so many years.
"How do you call a man out in a sport that he has a family and you guys want to hurt each other and they can honour it in a fair way and promote it to be entertaining? I mean everything he does, people watch that s***.
"So it was great to have him there, it really boosted the moment for me... with Conor, it [a fight] would probably get two [million], three [million]."
