Bare Knuckle Boxing Thread

[famicommander]

Instead of making new threads for every event I thought I'd just make one thread and keep bumping it.

There are three or four notable bare knuckle promotions going right now. The biggest is BKFC but they're not the only one. They have some differences, so let's look at them now.

Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship
Round Lengths: 2 minutes
Rounds fought: 5
Hand wraps: Must be at least one inch from knuckles
Knock out count: 10 count
Clinch fighting allowed: Yes
Fighting surface: Round boxing ring
Based in: USA

BKB
Round Lengths: 2 minutes
Rounds Fought: 3, 5 for title fights
Hand wraps: Must be at least one inch from knuckles
Knock out count: 20 count
Clinch fighting allowed: No
Fighting surface: standard boxing ring
Based in: UK

Toe the Line Fight Series
Round lengths: 2 minutes
Rounds fought: 5
Hand wraps: must be at least one inch from knuckles
Knock out count: 10 count
Clinch fighting allowed: Yes
Fighting surface: standard boxing ring
Based in: USA

Ken Shamrock's Valor Bare Knuckle
Rounds lengths: 3 minutes
Rounds fought: 3
Hand wraps: wrists only
Knock out count: 10 count
Clinch fighting allowed: No
Fighting surface: pit
Based in: USA

BKFC is the "major league" of bare knuckle. They have their own app which has all their shows for 4 bucks per month. They have the most notable fighters and the highest production values. As of this moment they have run 15 shows.

Toe the Line Fight Series is BKFC's feeder league. They have run two events in the US and are running one in the UK next month. They have the same rule set as BKFC. Their shows are available on the Bare Knuckle TV app, just like BKFC.

BKB is the top promotion outside the US. They have run over 20 events and their shows air on PPV via Fite TV. They have no affiliation with BKFC but the bigger promotion has signed some of their top talent lately like Tyler Goodjohn. Overall they're pretty low rent. Not allowing clinch fighting and letting downed fighters have a 20 count are pretty lame rules.

Ken Shamrock's Valor BK has only run one event. They canceled their second over a year ago. Shamrock claims they are not out of business but they have no events planned and BKFC signed a bunch of their guys from the first event, so it could be one and done.

[famicommander]

BKFC 16 card so far for February 5

Debut of Paige VanZant (opponent TBA)

BKFC World Lightweight Championship: Johnny Bedford (c) vs Dat Nguyen

Bedford:
23-14-1-1 in MMA, 10 KO
5-0-0-0 in bare knuckle, 3 KO

Links to Bedford's other BKFC fights:
Bedford vs Matt Murphy
Bedford vs Abdiel Velazquez
Bedford vs Reggie Barnett Jr
Bedford vs Charles Bennett

Nguyen:
20-3-0-0 boxing, 7 KO
2-0-0-0 in bare knuckle, 1 KO

Dat Nguyen's other fights in BKFC:
Nguyen vs Travis Thompson
Nguyen vs Abdiel Velazquez (crazy bloody KO)

Also on the card is the return of Uly Diaz, who last month scored the fastest recorded KO in the history of combat sports (including boxing, bare knuckle, MMA, and kickboxing going all the way back to the 1700s) with a 3 second KO.

Diaz:
12-1-0-0 in boxing, 11 KOs
1-0-0-0 in MMA, 1 KO
2-0-0-0 in bare knuckle, 2 KOs

Diaz's BKFC fights:
Diaz vs Brian Maxwell
Diaz vs Donelei Benedetto (fastest KO in history)

[famicommander]

Coming up in January:

Toe the Line Fight Series in the UK, card TBA

And BKFC is promoting Bare Knuckle Kingdom from Thailand. The event will be Lethwei, a Burmese combat sport which allows:
-headbutts
-punches
-kicks
-elbows
-knees
-sweeps
-throws
-takedowns

It's a bare knuckle sport with hand wraps. No groundfighting or submissions. Think Muay Thai + bare knuckle boxing + head butts + Judo throws, sweeps, and takedowns

[aboutfkntime]

BKB is the best by far

[famicommander]

BKB is the best by far

I paid 15 bucks for their last PPV and it was hot garbage. Low level guys, mostly scared to be in the ring, not engaging.

It's the only show of theirs I've seen all the way through but if their other shows were like that, there's no way it stacks up to BKFC or Toe the Line.

[aboutfkntime]

I paid 15 bucks for their last PPV and it was hot garbage. Low level guys, mostly scared to be in the ring, not engaging.

It's the only show of theirs I've seen all the way through but if their other shows were like that, there's no way it stacks up to BKFC or Toe the Line.

Ive watched all

I think they have better shows and better fights

[famicommander]

Ive watched all

I think they have better shows and better fights

No way. Some of the guys on the last card looked like they'd never been in a fight in their lives.

And no clinch fighting with the larger ring means the fighters just run away from each other or hold. In BKFC there's nowhere to run and if you grab the other guy he can pull your head down right into an uppercut.

[Bandman]

All this crap should be canceled. this is a cavemen sport. Boxing is art

[TMLT87]

All this crap should be canceled. this is a cavemen sport. Boxing is art

No, its punching people in the face hundreds of times purely for entertainment purposes. Leaving people punch drunk later in life and occasionally resulting in serious injuries and death.

I dont understand how anyone can get high and mighty when it comes to combat sports. They're all pretty ****ed up if we are being honest. Boxing fans used to do it towards MMA and now ironically ive seen MMA fans try to do it with BKB, using the exact same criticisms that used to be levelled at MMA.

[daggum]

All this crap should be canceled. this is a cavemen sport. Boxing is art

have you ever seen this guy named andre ward? he was considered the best in this sport