England’s personal Mick Terrill takes on Kamil Sokolowski as BKB makes its first look at Utilita Area Newcastle
BKB Tremendous Welterweight World Champion Rolando Dy defends his title in opposition to three-time world champion Scott McHugh
Worldwide stars return to motion, as Olympic veteran and former IBF world champion Joseph “JoJo” Diaz Jr. and undefeated Adele Altamimi step again into the Trigon
BKB 60 in Newcastle
BKB Naked Knuckle Boxing, the world’s largest skilled naked knuckle boxing group, at the moment introduced it can head to the Tyne for the very first time on Saturday, October 10, with BKB 60 stay from the Utilita Area Newcastle.
Planting the flag within the North East is an explosive heavyweight important occasion between former multi-promotion champion and hometown favorite Mick Terrill and high contender Kamil Sokolowski. Within the co-main occasion, two of BKB’s most embellished fighters collide for the BKB Tremendous Welterweight World Championship, as reigning champion Rolando “Dy Unimaginable” Dy defends his title in opposition to Scott “The Mute” McHugh.
David Tetreault, CEO of BKB Naked Knuckle Boxing, stated: “Newcastle has at all times been one of the vital passionate battle cities within the nation, and BKB 60 is precisely the form of card this crowd deserves. Mick Terrill headlining at dwelling in opposition to a stay risk like Kamil Sokolowski, and Rolando Dy defending his title in opposition to Scott McHugh, provides followers two must-see fights on the identical night time. It is a big night time for BKB and for naked knuckle boxing within the North East.”
North Shields native Terrill (11-2, 10 KOs) returns dwelling a bona fide heavyweight legend. A multi-promotion World Heavyweight Champion. Now he brings that huge battle environment again to his personal yard, sporting BKB colours, in an all motion battle followers within the North East will love.
Mick Terrill stated: “There’s nothing like combating in entrance of my very own folks. Newcastle has seen me develop into a world champion as soon as, on this very enviornment, and now I get to push nearer to my world title shot as soon as once more sporting BKB colors. Kamil’s powerful and sturdy, however I’m going to present this crowd a knockout they’ll be speaking about for years. As soon as I knock him out, I would like my shot at Gustavo for the title.”
Standing in his manner is Sokolowski (3-1 BKB), a Poland-born, Devon-based heavyweight who has already examined himself in opposition to elite BKB competitors, together with a hard-fought conflict with former title challenger Mark O’Neil. Lengthy earlier than he ever stepped into the trigon, Sokolowski constructed a popularity as certainly one of gloved boxing’s most sturdy opponents, sharing the ring as an expert with the likes of Dillian Whyte, Martin Bakole, David Value, world champion Lucas Browne, David Adeleye, Otto Wallin, Olympic gold medalist Bakhodir Jalolov, and Olympic medalist Frazer Clarke.
A come-forward, high-volume brawler with nothing to lose, Sokolowski has made a behavior of testing fighters with larger reputations, and he arrives in Newcastle trying to do precisely that to the hometown hero within the largest battle of his profession.
Kamil Sokolowski stated: “Mick’s the hometown favorite, however that is my probability to silence the group and show I belong on the high of this division. I’ve already been in with the very best heavyweights BKB has, and I’m not in Newcastle to make up the numbers, I’m coming to win.”
BKB 60
Within the co-main occasion, Filipino star Dy defends the BKB Tremendous Welterweight World Championship for the second time since turning into the primary fighter from the Philippines to win a BKB world title. The son of former WBC world champion Rolando Navarrete, Dy (6-1, 5 KOs) defeated champion Liam Rees to seize the title, and adopted up with a brutal second-round stoppage of two-division boxing world champion Paulie Malignaggi on the AO Area in Manchester in his inaugural title protection.
Rolando Dy stated: “Defending my title is at all times the aim, regardless of the place or who’s in entrance of me. Scott’s an actual champion in his personal proper with a résumé to show it, however I’ve labored too arduous for this belt to let it go wherever.”
Dy’s hardest check but comes within the type of Leeds native McHugh, a three-time world champion and Naked Knuckle Corridor of Fame inductee, broadly considered one of the vital skilled fighters within the sport. A veteran of greater than 20 skilled naked knuckle bouts, McHugh now will get the chance so as to add the distinguished Police Gazette Diamond Belt to his already embellished resume.
Scott McHugh stated: “I’ve fought everywhere in the world and gained titles in every single place I’ve been, and I’m right here so as to add one other one to my assortment. Rolando’s an awesome champion, however each champion loses finally, and I plan on making that occur in Newcastle.”
Additionally featured on the cardboard are two of the game’s largest worldwide names. Undefeated welterweight Adel Altamimi, who fights out of Los Angeles by means of Baghdad, Iraq, returns to the UK following a Battle of the Night time efficiency at BKB 57 in LA, which got here after a highlight-reel knockout in his BKB debut in London in February. UK bare-knuckle followers can even get their first alternative to see Olympic veteran and former IBF World Champion Joseph “JoJo” Diaz Jr. stay in motion.
BKB 60 marks the promotion’s first-ever occasion in Newcastle, additional increasing its footprint throughout the UK and giving followers within the North East their first style of world-class bare-knuckle boxing stay and in particular person.
