Aspen Ladd is headed to reveal knuckle boxing once more, this time beneath the BKB banner. The previous UFC title contender will face Brazil’s Bianca Daimoni at BKB 58 on August 29 at Miami’s James L. Knight Heart.
Ladd’s first BKB look provides a recognizable MMA title to the promotion’s “Summer season of BKB” finale in Miami. The California native beforehand competed within the UFC, Bellator, PFL, Invicta FC and BKFC, and as soon as reached No. 2 within the UFC’s ladies’s bantamweight rankings.
Her UFC run included fights with present UFC champion Kayla Harrison, former UFC champions Raquel Pennington and Germaine de Randamie, plus a 2019 Battle of the Night time bonus. Now, Ladd enters BKB’s Trigon, a triangular ring designed for bare-knuckle competitors.
Aspen Ladd Heads to BKB for Miami Debut Towards Bianca Daimoni
“I can’t wait to make my debut within the Trigon and placed on a present for the followers in Miami,” Ladd mentioned. “Bianca’s robust and I do know she’s coming to struggle, however that’s precisely what I signed up for.”
The bout is a part of a card led by unbeaten BKB heavyweight champion Gustavo “The Cuban Assassin” Trujillo, who’s scheduled to defend in opposition to Mark O’Neil. Olympic gold medalist and former boxing world champion Yuriorkis Gamboa can also be booked to make his bare-knuckle debut in opposition to Yesner “Cuajadita” Talavera.
Daimoni enters with a 1-1 BKB document and has already skilled a championship-length struggle within the Trigon. At BKB 50 in Miami on January 31, Jamie Driver retained the ladies’s welterweight title with a unanimous resolution over Daimoni; the judges scored it 58-55, 58-55 and 57-56.
The Brazilian fighter trains at Chute Boxe in Ibiraquera and has competed in Muay Thai and MMA, the place she is listed with an 8-4 skilled document and a previous AFC featherweight title. She made her bare-knuckle debut at BYB 36 earlier than returning for the Driver title problem.
Daimoni’s route again to preventing adopted a significant well being battle in 2020, when COVID-19 left her hospitalized and in a coma, whereas her mom died throughout that interval. The Ladd matchup provides her one other high-profile probability in Miami, this time in opposition to an opponent making her first BKB stroll.
Ladd brings elite-level MMA expertise and prior bare-knuckle publicity, whereas Daimoni has a latest six-round BKB title-fight outing. That distinction makes the competition a key addition to BKB 58: Ladd is seeking to make a right away affect, and Daimoni can disrupt the debut with a second win within the promotion.
