Headlining the card will be Biloxi’s own former BKB Women’s Lightweight Champion Monica Medina taking on Waianae, Hawaii’s Monica Franco.
In her last bare knuckle fight in front of her hometown crowd, Medina defeated champion Paty Juarez in the second of three fights in their epic Police Gazette Diamond Belt championship trilogy. No stranger from the spotlight, she is a veteran of six bare knuckle fights, four of which were title matches. Franco will be making her BKB and Trigon debut with a bare knuckle record of 1-1, including a victory over current BKB Super Lightweight champion Khortni Kamyron.
The card will feature some of BKB’s international bare knuckle stars including Honduras’ Marlon Moncada who earned Fight of the Night honors in his victory at BKB 39 and is trained by the legendary Joel Diaz, and Gulf Coast favorites such as undefeated Jeff Denton, and bare knuckle MMA veteran Douglas Freeman.
Originating in South Florida with backyard legend Dada 5000, whose backyard fights gained worldwide popularity online, BKB was founded to harness the excitement of bare knuckle fighting into a more structured product for a wider, more mainstream audience. Since 2015, BYB has worked diligently to grow the reach of bare knuckle on both a domestic and international level, hosting events in Wyoming, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, England, Wales and Dubai, and is continuing to work with athletic commissions throughout the United States and globally to expand the fanbase growing sport of bare knuckle fighting.
In the past two years, BKB (originally BYB) has purchased the UK-based BKB, the world’s oldest professional bare knuckle boxing company, and in doing so merged the organizations to create the largest bare knuckle boxing company in the world in terms of roster, library and distribution; ushered in ethical and legalized gambling to the sport; acquired the rights to the historic and prestigious Police Gazette Diamond Belt which now serves as the Bare Knuckle Boxing World Championship; and brought bare knuckle boxing to lineal television on both sides of the Atlantic, including the recent deal with VICE TV and in the UK with TalkSport.
