Justin Barrasso is reporting that Vince McMahon made a play to purchase Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship and while meetings were done, BKFS founder and president David Feldman said that he was not ready to relinquish full control of the company he started.

“He’s a great guy, his whole team is great, but the timing wasn’t right for us,” Feldman told Barrasso. “He’s Vince McMahon – if I were him, I’d want creative control, too. He was awesome, very complimentary, and he was very serious to do business.”

McMahon recently launched his 14TH & I sports and entertainment investment company, with his former WWE lieutenant Brad Blum as the company’s president.

Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, based in Philadelphia, is the first promotion allowed to hold a legal, sanctioned, and regulated bare knuckle event in the United States since 1889.