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Press Release: April 11, 2026 By BKB Bareknuckle Boxing - MIAMI, FL – BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing today announced a new partnership with Adrenaline Plus TV (ADR+), a next-generation sports and combat entertainment streaming network, to stream live preliminary bouts for BKB events and feature a curated selection of archived fights across its global distribution platforms.   ADR+ will carry BKB live prelims as a top-of-funnel viewing experience for both of BKB’s series, providing fight fans with a free and accessible entry point to discover the intensity of bare knuckle boxing. This collaboration significantly expands BKB’s reach across the FAST and OTT ecosystem , builds brand awareness through increased discovery, and serves as a powerful funnel to drive tune-in to main card broadcasts while promoting ticket sales for live events.    Adrenaline Plus TV (ADR+) delivers premium live events, original programming, and on-demand content to a global audience, with distribution ac...

Press Release: April 7, 2026 By BKB Bareknuckle Boxing - Angulo scheduled to make his Bare Knuckle Boxing Debut July 18 at BKB 56 in Los Angeles. Credit: BKB Bareknuckle Boxing    MIAMI, FL – BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing is proud to announce the signing of former world champion and fan-favorite warrior Alfredo “El Perro” Angulo (26-8, 21 KOs) to a multi-fight deal, adding another proven elite striker to its rapidly growing roster.   A relentless pressure fighter known for his toughness and all-action style, Angulo brings decades of high-level experience to BKB. The Mexicali, Baja California native built a decorated professional boxing career that included capturing the WBO Interim Light Middleweight Championship (2009–2010), along with regional titles such as the WBC Continental Americas Super Welterweight and WBO Inter-Continental Super Welterweight belts.   Before turning professional in 2005, Angulo compiled nearly 100 amateur bouts, highlighted by a vic...

Credit: Nick Ledger / BKB Bareknuckle Boxing Press Release: December 8, 2025 By BKB: Bareknuckle Boxing - BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing finished out its historic 2025 Friday night December 5 in front of a sold-out crowd at the Vale Arena in Cardiff, Wales with BKB 49: Dance of the Dragons . In the main event, Rolando Dy defeated Liam Rees in front of Rees’ home crowd to become BKB Super Welterweight champion .  In doing so, Dy, son of former WBC Super Featherweight Champion Rolando Navarrett , made history, becoming the first bare knuckle boxing world champion from the Philippines. The duo becomes the first father-son pair to hold world championships in boxing and bare knuckle. In the evening’s fight of the night, two of BKB’s best young Super Middleweights brought the crowd to its feet as Wales’ Keiron Harding out-slugged Scotland’s David Winiarski , winning by third round TKO by doctor’s stoppage. Simey Doherty defeated Kallum Skhane by split decision in a closely-f...

  Credit: BKB Press Release: December 6, 2025 By BKB: Bareknuckle Boxing - BKB 51 will be headlined by “The Emperor of Bare Knuckle” Marko Martinjak defending his BKB Bridgerweight Championship against former BKB Heavyweight Champion “Hurricane” Ike Villanueva . LONDON, ENGLAND – BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing announced today its return to the indigo at the O2 for BKB 51, on Saturday, February 21, 2026. Said BKB CEO David Tetreault : “BKB is proud to announce its return home to the iconic indigo at the O2. This past year, with our partnership with talkSPORT and our expansion to all corners of the UK, BKB has solidified itself as the top promotion in the country. It's only fitting that we kick off our 2026 European calendar year in London with a return to the indigo where our company has sold out dozens of shows over the past decade.”   Headlining the card will be the first Bridgerweight title defense of Zagreb, Croatia ’s 12-2 Marko Martinjak. This past October in Leeds,...

Credit: BKB Bareknuckle Boxing  Press Release: November 20, 2025 By BKB Bareknuckle Boxing - Miami, FL, 19th November 2025 – Bally’s Corporation and BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing today (November 18th) unveiled Bally’s Fightnight by BKB, a fully integrated 360 partnership that unites Bally’s proprietary sensor technology, Bally’s owned casino venues, and exclusive broadcast distribution into a single, seamless combat entertainment ecosystem. The franchise debuts Friday, January 9, 2026, at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi, where advanced sensors embedded in fighter wrist wraps will capture punch volume, punch type, and force of impact in real time, delivering a gamified experience to fans both inside the arena and across Bally’s digital platforms, including the Bally Sports Live apps and Stadium free ad-supported TV (FAST) channel. The concept originated in 2021 through a pilot led by BKB CEO David Tetreault and Bally’s Chairman Soo Kim under Oscar De La Hoya’s KO Enter...

Credit: BKB  Press Release: October 5, 2025 By BKB - MIAMI, FL – As BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing continues to grow and revolutionize combat sports, CEO David Tetreault announced today the hiring of George Gallegos as Chief Business Officer and Head of Legal and Tony Rodriguez as Creative Director, and the elevation of Adrian Man from UK Social Media Lead to Director of Social Media.   The hirings coincide with the launch of BKB’s full-scale media and entertainment division under CMO Don Povia, to produce premium fight documentaries, behind-the-scenes reality series, and an entirely new Social First strategy that floods every screen with original content. In partnership with broadcast and streaming partners VICE, Telemundo and talkSPORT, BKB will deliver must-watch programming that takes fans inside the fight game like never before — from the brutality of fight night to the untold stories that define the fighters. Said Tetreault, “Our primary goal is to become the u...

Credit: BKB Press Release: September 10, 2025 By BKB Bareknuckle Boxing - MIAMI, FL, USA – BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing - the world’s largest and oldest bare knuckle fighting promotion - announced today that it returns to South Florida on November 22 at the Charles F. Dodge Center in Pembroke Pines for BKB 48 Brawl in the Pines V, a card stacked with the best pound-for-pound bare knuckle fighters from around the world. In the main event, undefeated Heavyweight champion Gustavo “The Cuban Assassin” Trujillo will face Bellator MMA and ONE Fighting Championship veteran and former King of the Cage champion Tony “Hulk” Johnson Jr. The 32-year-old Trujillo (Miami, Florida by way of Moron Ciego de Ávila, Cuba) has been unstoppable in the sport, boasting a 7-0 record with seven first-round knockouts, including stoppages over bare knuckle world champions Lorenzo Hunt, Ike Villanueva, and Richie Leak.  In the night’s co-main event, BoxRec’s #1 pound-for-pound bare knuckle fighter in t...

Press Release: August 26, 2025 By BKB Bareknuckle Boxing -MIAMI, FLORIDA – BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing CEO David Tetreault announced today that the Miami-based and Hispanic-owned company has signed a multi-fight partnership with Telemundo, a division of NBCUniversal, to air the company’s live Spanish-language broadcast on the recently-launched Telemundo Deportes Ahora. The partnership kicked off this live from Denver at August 16’s BKB 44 Denver Brawl V, headlined by Mexico’s Paty Juarez successfully defending her BKB Lightweight championship in a rematch with Khortni Kamyron. The partnership announcement comes on the heels of BKB’s recent exclusive deal to broadcast live in the UK and Ireland on News UK’s talkSPORT, and months after announcing a deal with VICE to carry the [English language] shows in the US and Canada.  Said BKB Chairman Mike Vazquez, “For years, BKB has grown and sustained a loyal audience of Spanishspeaking fight fans throughout the US and in Latin and South America...

Credit: BKB Bareknuckle Boxing  Press Release: June 17, 2025 By BKB Bareknuckle Boxing - Miami, Florida - Former IBF junior welterweight and WBA welterweight champion Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi announced today his return to fighting, signing a three-fight deal with BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing in hopes of becoming a 2-sport world champion and adding the historic Police Gazette Diamond Belt to his collection.   Malignaggi, who has served as BKB’s color commentator and lead analyst since 2021, will fight in the BKB Super Welterweight division and is slated to return to action and make his Trigon debut at BKB 45 on September 6 in Bristol, England.   Malignaggi, born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Sicily, holds a professional boxing record of 36-8 and has fought some of the biggest names in the sport including Miguel Cotto, Shawn Porter, Adrian Broner, Ricky Hatton and Zab Judah.   He notes that while it would be easy to leverage his name for an immediate ...

Press Release: May 8, 2024 By BYB Extreme Bareknuckle Fighting Series - - The groundbreaking US bare knuckle organization based out of Miami, Florida has acquired the  oldest, active bare knuckle company in the world, making BYB the largest company in terms of  roster, library and global reach in the bare knuckle space.  Miami, Florida – BYB Extreme Bare Knuckle Fighting Series Owner and President Mike Vazquez announced today that the company has acquired London-based BKB, the world’s first professional bare  knuckle boxing promotion, who has successfully promoted forty bare knuckle events which are broadcast  in over thirty-five different countries with millions of fans and viewers worldwide. As bare knuckle continues to grow in popularity, and sponsorship of live programming in sports remain at  a premium, John Bryan, a pioneering leader with expertise in media distribution and with more than 20  years working at MGM, Disney and Warner Brothers and w...