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Exclusive! Maurice Greene goes bare-knuckle: “It’s a dog’s game!”
Maurice Greene. Photo via UFC and PFL
With fights in UFC and PFL, seasoned heavyweight veteran Maurice Greene is no stranger to tough challenges.
His next fight, on November 15, might be the hardest test to date as he will take off the gloves to face fellow UFC vet Chase Sherman in a bare-knuckle fight at Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA.
“The biggest difference is not having the gloves to be honest with you. Everything else is pretty much the same,” Greene tells Frontkick in an exclusive interview. “There’s also a little bit of a difference in grappling, because the glove is not getting in your way. Getting hit in the eye with a glove, it covers a big surface, and when you get hit in the eye in bare-knuckle you’re getting hit in the eye with a knuckle. Some of that stuff is a part of the game. I think these are the biggest differences.”
Without going into specifics, the vetera heavyweight admits that he will have a slightly different approach to the bare-knuckle MMA game.
“If you look at the things that you gain by having bare knuckles and you look at the things that work against you having bare knuckles. We take all that information, evaluate it and come up with a strategy that makes sense.”
“He’s another dog in the yard”
With two UFC tenures behind him, Chase Sherman is one tough nut to crack. After parting ways with the UFC, he went straight to Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA where he’s currently undefeated with two straight wins. The heavyweight bout is definitely one of the most interesting on a card that features no fewer than 14 former UFC fighters.
“Man, I’ll put it like this, Chase Sherman has been around for a long time,” Greene says about his opponent. “I watched him in the UFC, he’s just a bit of a dog. He’s another dog in the yard, man. Bare-knuckle anything, is a dog’s game, so – woof, woof!”
Maurice Greene is excited to start a new chapter
After more than a decade in professional MMA, Maurice Greene fought some 20 fights and competed in the biggest promotions around. He went from The Ultimate Fighter to the UFC, where he faced the likes of Sergei Pavlovich and Gian Villante, before moving on to compete in PFL during 2022 and 2023.
“Nothing compares to the UFC, nothing. Nothing will ever compare to the UFC. They do it at the highest level. PFL is a great promotion but a lot of flash and lights in the front, not enough for the fighters in the back. We didn’t even have enough fucking room to warm up before a fight. We were in shoe boxes, which is kinda fucked up.”
At 38, the heavyweight veteran still has a lot left to give and seems stoked to start a new chapter of his career.
“Gamebred is a whole different layer, it’s very close, but it’s a little bit out of the atmosphere. I’m excited to be a part of it.”
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