BYB Naked Knuckle Boxing has scored a multi-year broadcast deal to air occasions on Vice TV with the primary card debuting on the community on Feb. 22.
The bare-knuckle combating outfit turns into the primary main sports activities acquisition for Vice TV as the corporate shifts to a extra sports-first focus transferring ahead.
“We stay up for including reside BYB Naked Knuckle Boxing, our first reside occasion collection, as a mainstay of the Vice TV schedule as Vice Sports activities continues to fill its programming slate with compelling sports-themed docuseries, packages, reside occasions, and podcasts,” Vice TV President Pete Gaffney mentioned in a press launch. “BYB is a fight sport surging in reputation, and having it on Vice TV helps us fulfill our mission of that includes provocative sports activities programming that our viewers now expects.”
The deal between BYB and Vice TV requires 13 reside occasions to air in prime time in 2025 with the expectation that the majority playing cards happen on Saturday night time.
The primary struggle card airing on Vice TV takes place on Feb. 22 with BYB 34 from Denver the place tremendous light-weight champion Harry Gigliotti defending his title in opposition to Jon Barnard. The co-main occasion options featherweight champion Helen Peralta taking over Lailane Mota for a vacant tremendous featherweight title
BYB Naked Knuckle Boxing has continued to increase its footprint lately with fights happening within the firm’s three-sided trigon ring, which is touted as “the smallest combating floor in fight sports activities,” leading to a 90 p.c knockout price throughout fights.
Naked-knuckle combating has exploded in reputation lately with BKFC turning into an business chief whereas selling marquee occasions with fighters like as Mike Perry, Eddie Alvarez and Jeremy Stephens main the best way. BKFC inked a broadcast deal of its personal with DAZN in 2024 and now BYB seems to affix the fray after signing a take care of Vice TV.
