This coming Saturday night, 31 January 2026, BKB Bare Knuckle achieves a historic milestone. It’s the 50th numbered event for the Florida-based company formerly known as BYB Extreme. It’s been over 10 years since BYB originator Dada 5000 started promoting bare knuckle fights in his backyard in West Perrine, Florida, as documented in the Netflix documentary Dawg Fight.
The company has come a long way from Dada’s backyard. Mike Vazquez, BKB’s President and Dada’s business associate, has grown the company into an international fight promotion with a large fighter roster and fight library. In 2024, BKB Bare Knuckle was created from a merger between Vazquez’s BYB and the original BKB promotion headed by Joe Brown and Jim Freeman. The company now promotes close to 20 events per year and just launched a new fight series collaboration with Bally’s Casinos.
Saturday night’s BKB 50 event celebrates the company’s history and ascent with a loaded fight card in Miami. Three championship bouts are scheduled, in addition to a cruiserweight title eliminator. Fans tuning in will see both familiar and new faces battling it out in BKB’s Mighty Trigon, the smallest fighting surface in professional combat sports.
Fight Card Highlights include:
-Rene “Whiteboy” Rodriguez’s return. Rodriguez, a bare knuckle veteran and fan favourite who competed in backyard bouts before joining BYB, returns after a two-year absence against Matt Socholotiuk.
-Hard-hitting veteran Aaron McCallum of the UK looks for his third straight KO win
-Middleweight contender Henry “Florida Gremlin” Williams sees action. Williams has won four fights in a row, including a knockout over welterweight champ Javon Wright in a nontitle bout last August
-A main event battle between unbeaten knockout artist Alberto Blas and former champion Harold McQueen. Both men have held titles and will look to add another belt to their collection. Women’s champ Jamie Driver defends her belt in the co-main event
BKB 50 Evolution: How to Watch
BKB 50: Evolution is being broadcast live starting with the prelims at 7pm EST (12 am Sunday in the UK). The prelims stream live on the BKB Bare Knuckle YouTube channel
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Following the prelims, the BKB 50 main card will stream live in the US & Canada on Vice Sports starting at 8pm EST (1am Sunday in the UK). UK and European fans can catch the action live and free on the talkSPORT Boxing YouTube channel.
BKB 50: Evolution-Full Fight Card
Preliminary Bouts
-Light Heavyweight: Marcos Lloreda (debut) v German Ramos (debut)
-Super Middleweight: Austin Spivey (1-0) v Nicholas Abello (debut)
-Super Welterweight: Rudisiel Mora (debut) v Carrese Archer (0-1)
Main Card
-Welterweight: Aaron McCallum (8-6) v Serob Minasyan (2-1)
-Super Middleweight: Rene Rodriguez (5-4) v Matt Socholotiuk (2-2)
-Cruiserweight: Zion Tomlinson (5-4, 1 No Contest) vs Yuniesky Gonzalez (1-0)
-Middleweight: Henry Williams (6-2) vs Jordan Nash (2-2)
-Super Flyweight: Cecilia Ulloa (2-2) v Erisnelsy Torres (1-1)-For the Vacant BKB Women’s Super Flyweight Title
-Welterweight: Jamie Driver (5-1) v Bianca Diamoni (1-0)-For Driver’s BKB Women’s Welterweight Title
-Super Featherweight: Alberto Blas (7-0) vs Harold McQueen (3-2)-For the Vacant BKB Super Featherweight Title
Fighter records courtesy of BoxRec
