LEE Selby has hinted he could fight again – in bareknuckle boxing’s trigon. The former IBF featherweight champion admitted he had “itchy knuckles” at BKB’s show in Bolton on Saturday.
Selby was there in the corner with Joe Morgan, who won his first seven professional gloved fights before ditching his gloves.
Morgan made a winning bareknuckle debut, winning in the opening round, and Selby said it’s “a possibility” he could also join a roster that recently added former two-weight world gloved boxing champion Paulie Malignaggi.
Malignaggi has been matched with another former gloved boxer, Tyler Goodjohn, in Bristol on September 6.
Selby, who made four successful defences of this world title, had his last competitive fight in March, 2022.
He was beaten in five rounds by Gustavo Daniel Lemos in an IBF eliminator in Argentina.
Now 38, Selby said: “I retired three years ago.
“I boxed in Argentina where everything was against me. But I’m a fighting man so I went there for little money and fell short.
“Three years is the longest I have been out. I feel fresh and rejuvenated.”
Asked if he would fight bareknuckle in the future, Selby said: “It’s a possibility.”
Selby saw Kallum Skhane fall short in his bid to become another world champion bareknuckle boxer from Wales.
The former Welsh amateur international from Blaengwynfi was beaten in four rounds by Harry Gigliotti, who roared after his sixth straight win: “I’m the greatest of all time.”
For two rounds, Gigliotti, also a 9-5 gloved pro from Massachusetts, was thoroughly outboxed.
Skhane was quick with his hands and feet, but after two rounds, he had picked up damage to his left eye and nose and Gigliotti started to land more hard jabs in the third before dropping the Welshman late in the round with a body shot.
Skhane dragged himself up and was winning the fourth until Gigliotti spotted another gap and drove a hard left uppercut into Skhane’s body, sending him to his knees for the full count.
