BKB Naked Knuckle Boxing is heading again to Mississippi on October 23, with Bally’s Fightnight by BKB set for the Arduous Rock Lodge & On line casino Biloxi.
The cardboard is led by former BKB light-weight champion Jarod “Child Gatti” Grant in opposition to Bekhzod “The Lion” Usmonov. Grant enters seeking to rejoin the title race after Jon Barnard stopped him to take the light-weight belt at BKB 53 in April. Usmonov, a Tajikistan-born fighter who has competed in MMA and bare-knuckle boxing, will get a significant probability to make his case within the BKB light-weight division.
Grant’s listed BKB report for the matchup is 8-3 with one no contest, whereas Usmonov is 3-1 within the promotion. There’s a little historical past behind Grant’s spot close to the highest of the division: he turned BKB light-weight champion at BKB 41 and has beforehand been described by BKB as the primary fighter to carry titles throughout BKB and BKFC. Biloxi provides him an opportunity to restart the climb, whereas Usmonov can flip a win over a former champion into the largest results of his bare-knuckle run.
BKB Bally’s Fightnight Returns to Biloxi
The co-feature brings former BKB heavyweight champion Ike “Hurricane” Villanueva again into the Trigon in opposition to Cody “Freight Prepare” East in a bridgerweight bout. Villanueva is listed at 5-3 in BKB competitors, and East brings a 2-1 mark with two knockouts. It’s a easy pairing: two massive males, restricted room to work, and a reputation like “Freight Prepare” that doesn’t depart a lot room for a tactical chess match.
BKB’s Biloxi return follows the launch of the Bally’s Fightnight sequence on the identical venue in January. That first occasion featured former ladies’s light-weight champion Monica Medina beating Monica Franco by unanimous choice, whereas Martin Brown stopped Bobby Taylor within the fifth spherical of the co-main occasion. The October present marks one other chapter for the partnership between BKB and Bally’s, which mixes a on line casino venue, occasion broadcast and in-fight monitoring expertise.
Sensors within the fighters’ wrist wraps are designed to trace punch quantity, punch sort and power of impression in actual time. The info is meant to seem throughout the stay enviornment expertise and Bally’s digital platforms, including stats to a sport that has by no means had a problem supplying seen proof of impression.
Bally’s Fightnight by BKB Biloxi will stream on the Bally Sports activities Stay app and Stadium’s free ad-supported tv channel. The January debut was additionally carried by these shops. Tickets can be found by Ticketmaster, with additional fights anticipated to be introduced earlier than October 23.
