During an appearance ”IT'S TIME!!! with Bruce Buffer," longtime promoter and manager Monte Cox revealed that he is working on putting together a kickboxing bout between Miletich and professional boxer Michael Nunn. The matchup had been in the works for April, but the coronavirus pandemic put those talks on hold.
“[There’s] one big show I’m working on,” Cox said. “You’ve probably heard rumors of this, but Pat Miletich is going to fight again. He’s fighting Michael Nunn, a great boxer. It’s an incredible [fight]. This thing will draw. We could draw 7,000-plus in the Quad Cities. They are the two greatest professional athletes or fighters out of that area.”
A former UFC welterweight champion, Miletich went 8-2 in the Las Vegas-based promotion. The Miletich Martial Arts founder compiled a 29-7-2 record in MMA over the course of a career that began in 1995. He last competed in 2008, when he knocked out Thomas Denny at Adrenaline MMA 2 in Moline, Illinois. Miletich has since transitioned to a career as analyst, calling fights on AXS TV and UFC Fight Pass.
Nunn, meanwhile, was released from prison in February 2019 after serving more than 16 years of a drug trafficking sentence. Prior to his arrest in 2002, Nunn went 58-4 as a professional boxer, capturing the IBF middleweight title and the WBA super middleweight crown along the way.
“This is a spectacle,’’ Miletich said in a promotional video distributed to the Quad City Times in January. “It’s not a normal sporting event. It’s more of a spectacle.’’