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Announcing BKB 41: Brawl in Duval - Jacksonville, FL - May 31, 2025
Heavyweight and Super Cruiserweight Title matches headline Bare Knuckle Boxing's return to Jacksonville's Prime F. Osborn Convention Center.
JACKSONVILLE, FL – BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing, the biggest and baddest bare knuckle organization in the world, returns to Jacksonville, Florida May 31 for BKB 41 Brawl in Duval II and an action-packed night of fights. Headlining the card will be two massive title matchups featuring four of the sport’s most accomplished superstars from around the world.
Undefeated BKB Heavyweight champion Gustavo “The Cuban Assassin” Trujillo looks to make it 8-0 with 8 first round knockouts when he faces his toughest competition yet in Poland’s undefeated Kamil Sokolowski (3–0, 3 first-round KOs). One of the world’s best pound-for pound fighters, “The Emperor of Bare Knuckle” Croatia’s Marko Martinjak (10-2), returns stateside to defend his BKB Super Cruiserweight title against #1 contender, “The Cuban Crocodile” Yordan Fuentes (4-0).
Tickets on sale now at bkbtickets.com/bkb41. Card subject to change and more fights to be announced shortly. BKB 41 will be broadcast live exclusively in the US and Canada on Vice at 8 PM ET and outside of North America on bkbworld.tv. Visit bkbbareknuckle.com/watch for viewing options. For media credentialing, click here.
BYB’s next show is this Saturday, March 22 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK for BKB featuring the long-awaited rematch between two-division BKB world champion LT Smash Nelson and Birmingham, England’s James “The Truth” Connelly. For more information visit bkbbareknuckle.com.
ABOUT BYB
Originating in South Florida as BYB Extreme with backyard legend Dada 5000, whose backyard fights gained worldwide popularity online, BKB was founded to harness the excitement of bare knuckle boxing into a more structured product for a wider, more mainstream audience. Since 2015, BKB has worked diligently to grow the reach of bare knuckle on both a domestic and international level, hosting events in Wyoming, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, South Carolina, 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 boxing. In May 2024, the US-based BKB acquired London-based BKB, the world’s first professional bare knuckle boxing promotion, who has successfully promoted forty bare knuckle events which were broadcast in over thirty-five different countries with millions of fans and viewers worldwide. For more information on BYB, visit bkbbareknuckle.com.
