BKFC is giving the individuals what they need.
On Monday, Naked Knuckle Preventing Championship introduced its upcoming BKFC 67 card, which takes place on Oct. 12 at Marbella Area in Marbella, Spain, will function a high-profile novice encounter between two sizable MMA personalities: Ben Davis and Oscar Willis.
An rising title in fight sports activities for his work within the commentary sales space for a number of promotions and as on-air expertise for DAZN and Misfits Boxing, “The Bane” has additionally tried his hand throughout a number of preventing disciplines, dropping to Brad Boulton in a grappling match in Could of 2023, after which dropping to Gabriel Silva — Anderson Silva’s son — in a boxing match at Misfits 9 this previous September. Most not too long ago, Davis made his Karate Fight debut, profitable by unanimous resolution.
“That is simply the craziest factor I’ve ever finished,” Davis informed MMA Preventing. “Odds of me getting slept once more are excessive, however f*ck it, we ball. I’ve finished my greatest to do issues completely different, and I really feel I’ve checked practically each huge field. BJJ, boxing, karate, and now bare-knuckle. I imagine this all ends with an MMA debut subsequent.
“My final objectives are associated to my broadcasting profession, however whereas I’m younger and in a position, I really feel it’s necessary to stroll it as a lot as I speak it.”
Davis faces an enormous problem in Willis, who’s greatest often known as the face of The Mac Life, but additionally made his MMA debut in 2022, profitable a unanimous resolution at Tuff-N-Uff: Combat for Our Troops 11. This may also be Willis’s first struggle since then and his bare-knuckle debut, however he felt the timing and opponent made sense.
“BKFC felt like the correct promotion, Bane felt like the correct opponent, and a bull preventing enviornment in Spain felt like the correct venue,” Willis informed MMA Preventing. “There’s no beef right here, I hit it off with him, however all’s truthful in love and battle — and I’ll deliver each for Ben in October.”
BKFC 67 is ready to be headlined by a battle for the vacant light-weight title between Franco Tenaglia and Tony Soto.
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