Tai Emery clashes with Charisa Sigala in a bare-knuckle boxing bout at Super RIZIN 3 on July 28, over a year and a half on from her viral moment in Thailand.
Emery is training in Dubai out of TK MMA after having spent years training in Thailand and sleeping on cold, hard concrete floors. She was doing everything possible to learn her craft after becoming a combat sports athlete later in the game than many.
Tai Emery is returning to bare-knuckle after a bit over a year and a half. BKFC Thailand 4 was her last bout and she fought eventual BKFC Thailand champion Po Denman and went the distance with someone who has knocked out a man in bare-knuckle.
The COVID years were spent in Thailand and she carved out her name on the BKFC’s circuit out in that country. The promotion is now expanding the sport to Japan and Emery will be making history here in the first-ever women’s bare-knuckle boxing bout to transpire in that country.
Emery had previously targeted spending time in Japan as an exchange student in her younger years. It never came to fruition and she’s now finally visiting the country for the first time years later.
Misfits Boxing has also signed Emery with gloved boxing goals in the future for the former football player as well.
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Through that aforementioned fight vs the BKFC Thailand 115 pound titleholder, Emert discovered a leaking breast implant. Her health is now back in alignment and the vigor for competition as well as the general positivity/ appreciation for life gets to once again be expressed in professional combat sports competition.
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Tai Emery thinks she can utilize the 120 pound limit to become a vehicle to facilitate entertaining fights with both strawweights and flyweights that bookend this catchweight limit. She has called out Paige VanZant in the past and also seems keen on a fight with BKFC strawweight champion Britain Hart. She pointedly stated that she wants a Hart fight for the Baddest Bitch Belt at a later juncture.
Super Rizin 3 also features BKFC flyweight champion John Dodson fighting Takaki Soya under bare-knuckle rules in a non-title affair. Emery is also honoured to be on a massive card with Manny Pacquiao. She appreciates being on big events with legends as Emery made her bare-knuckle boxing debut on the undercard of Buakaw who also made his first fighting foray into gloveless combat.
Ahead of this landmark moment, Emery is embracing her superstar quality as of late. She has heard about this energy her whole life and now finally feels in a place to best utilize it as her bare-knuckle journey coincides with BKFC’s global expansion efforts.
Towards the end of our chat, Emery jokingly called herself an airheaded killer. But then also stated how she just had a brain scan done with the doctor telling her how thick her skull was all around to the scale of two and a half times more than the average person.