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BYB 16 Official Weights & Photos
On Saturday, March 18, BYB makes history in Dubai when it will host the first-ever bare knuckle boxing event in the Gulf Region with its Desert Brawl card featuring athletes from 12 nations.
The lineup will feature a cruiserweight matchup between BYB’s Jarome “The Hatchet” Hatch (USA) and Bare Knuckle Alliance parter BKB’s “Marvelous” Marko Martinjak (Croatia) for the Police Gazette Cruiserweight World Diamond Belt, a pair of women’s brawls, the BYB debut of Rashad “Daywalker” Coulter, and more.
Weigh-ins were held today and fighters faced-off with one another in front of a celebratory St. Patrick's Day crowd in Dubai's Irish Village. Below are photos and official weights. Additional images are available here. If you require any additional or in a different format, please feel free to reach out.
Cruiserweight for the Police Gazette World Diamond Belt
Jarome “The Hatchet” Hatch (USA) 194.7
vs.
“Marvelous” Marko Martinjak (Croatia) 194.9
Cruiserweight
Will Chope (USA) 199.4
vs.
Szymon Szynkiewicz (Poland, BKB) 205.6
Heavyweight
Rashad “Daywalker” Coulter (USA) 251.5
vs.
Quentin “Ruskov” Domingos (Portugal, BKB) 263.2
Super Flyweight
Agnesa Kriakosian (Armenia) 113.5
vs.
Mariana Kamara (Lebanon) 117.1
Ivan Wycliff Ggunga (Uganda) 177.58
vs.
Mohamad Ghorabi (Lebanon) 194
Heavyweight
Eric “Bloodaxe” Olsen (USA) 240.9
vs.
Richie “The Viking” Leak (England, BKB) 227
Middleweight
Ivica Jakopic (Croatia) 171.9
vs.
Aaron “Sinky” Sinclair (Ireland) 161.3
Welterweight
Jessika Smith (USA) 144.7
vs.
Sonya Dreiling (USA) 148.1
Middleweight
Hamza Hamry (Tunisia) 148
vs.
Mark Tiffin (England, BKB) 160
Heavyweight
Tony “Kryptonite” Lopez (USA) 258.3
vs.
Sean “Big Sexy” Turner (Ireland, BKB) 265.9
ABOUT BYB
Originating in South Florida with backyard legend Dada 5000, whose backyard fights gained worldwide popularity online, BYB was founded to harness the excitement of bare knuckle boxing into a more structured product for a wider, more mainstream audience. Since 2015, BYB has worked diligently to grow the reach of bare knuckle boxing on both a domestic and international level, hosting events in Wyoming, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina and London, and is continuing to work with athletic commissions throughout the United States globally to expand the fanbase growing sport of bare knuckle boxing. For more information on BYB, visit bybextreme.com and follow @bybextreme on social.
