There’s multitasking after which there’s what Bryce Henry pulled off Saturday evening.

An undefeated rising expertise within the bare-knuckle middleweight ranks, Henry scored three knockdowns on Roderick Stewart to win this weekend’s BKFC fundamental occasion with a second-round knockout in Hammond, Indiana. Nevertheless it was what Henry did previous to the stoppage that maybe might have been most spectacular.

Reasonably than sit on the stool throughout the one-minute break between Rounds 1 and a pair of to gather his breath and obtain some mid-fight recommendation from his nook, Henry obtained his Garry Kasparov on and was as a substitute caught by BKFC cameras taking a knee whereas taking part in a literal sport of chess together with his workforce.

Sure, you learn that proper.

Chess on a miniature chessboard. In the midst of a bare-knuckle boxing struggle.

The video is precisely as ridiculous as you’d suppose it’d be.

By tempting the struggle gods in such an creative and brazen means, Henry (6-0, 6 KOs) risked being perpetually caught with a front-and-center statue within the Struggle Recreation Corridor of Disgrace had issues gone poorly in Spherical 2 in opposition to Stewart. However the 24-year-old Floridian swiftly put these worries to mattress, downing Stewart with a proper hand to the physique within the closing seconds of the spherical to earn his sixth straight stoppage beneath the BKFC banner.

Afterward, Henry issued an open problem to BKFC middleweight champion Julian Lane, he of “Let me bang” fame from the notorious drunken meltdown on 2012’s “The Final Fighter 16.”

Stewart dropped to 2-3 in bare-knuckle boxing within the dropping effort.

Full BKFC Struggle Night time Hammond outcomes could be seen beneath.