BKB Naked Knuckle Boxing contracts a few of the prime fighters on the earth of gloveless fight as we speak, however simply who’s on the promotion’s Mount Rushmore? Marko Martinjak is a good particular person to ask this form of query, as he has captured a number of belts throughout a number of divisions and is somebody who is straight away considered on this ‘4 faces, founding fathers’ form of oft-used context.
The Croatian powerhouse has been with BKB for the reason that prior regime’s existence within the UK earlier than the previous BYB Excessive acquired the group and adjusted the title to BKB Naked Knuckle Boxing. Martinjak is actually a day one combatant along with his first combat with the corporate transpiring at their inaugural occasion.
Discussing his ideas on the highest pound-for-pound names within the Vice TV Naked Knuckle Boxing broadcast entity whereas invoking the title of a tenured fight sports activities media member out of the UK, Martinjak stated [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“I simply talked with Gareth A. Davies yesterday. He stated the Mount Rushmore of BKB [is] me, Gustavo Trujillo, LT ‘Smash’ Nelson, and Cub Hawkins. I couldn’t say no as a result of I agree with him on that.”
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These 4 faces in Naked Knuckle Boxing can be kicked off with Gustavo Trujillo, who at present holds gold in each gloved and bare-knuckle boxing with WBC and WBO Latino heavyweight titles in his possession, concurrent along with his Police Gazette diamond {hardware}.
Martinjak talked about throughout the Naked Knuckle Bowker chat above that he was listening to rumblings concerning a doable Kamil Sokolowski combat being subsequent for Trujillo contained in the Trigon later within the Summer season. As for Martinjak himself, he’s on the heels of an enormous KO of former BKB heavyweight champ Ike Villanueva that noticed ‘Marvelous’ Marko defend his bridgerweight belt. LT ‘Smash’ Nelson at present holds the BKB tremendous middleweight in addition to middleweight crowns with a brilliant welterweight bout scheduled for July at BKB 56 in Los Angeles.
Cub Hawkins has held cruiserweight and light-weight heavyweight gold within the Mighty Trigon, driving a five-fight win streak with defenses logged of each belts. Hawkins not too long ago bested ex-UFC vet Jesse Ronson in Q1 of this yr, and a few surprise if a cross-divisional superfight with the aforementioned ‘Smash’ Nelson is within the playing cards for him.
