Philadelphia, PA (February 20, 2025) Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC), The World’s Fastest Growing Combat Sports Promotion, rolls into Spring this year with two monumental, international events broadcast globally and exclusively on DAZN.
Kicking off on Thursday, March 27, BKFC returns to its second home; Hard Rock Live — Hollywood, FL in front of another expected sold-out crowd of fervent supporters. The highly anticipated event is headlined by Former Two-Division World Champion and Pound-for-Pound Great, Luis ‘Baboon’ Palomino, (9-1), facing Top Rated Lightweight Contender, Howard ‘HD’ Davis, (7-2-1).
Promoting for the first time in Italy on Saturday, April 26 at the famed Palozzo Wanny, BKFC will present the highly anticipated rematch between arch-rivals; BKFC Cruiserweight World Champion, Chris Camozzi, (3-1), and Former Two-Division World Champion and Pound-for-Pound Legend, Lorenzo ‘The Juggernaut’ Hunt, (11-2).
Co-featured at BKFC ITALY in the welterweight division, Rico ‘Bon Bon’ Franco, (3-1) will battle European bare-knuckle fighting legend and BKFC debuting Jimmy ‘The King’ Sweeney for the BKFC European Title.
Winning his first nine fights dating back to BKFC-10 five years ago, Luis Palomino is among the promotion’s most popular fighters drawing his legion of supporters to his previous six fights at Hard Rock Live – Hollywood, FL. Memorable victories for Palomino have included James Lilley (BKFC-45), Tom Shoaff (BKFC-34), Elvin Brito (BKFC-26, BKFC-10), Martin Trey Brown (KnuckleMania II), Dat Nguyen (BKFC-22), Tyler Goodjohn (BKFC-18), Jim Alers (BKFC-14) and Isaac Vallie-Flagg (BKFC-11). Most recently Palomino lost a hotly contested welterweight world title fight to Austin Trout at BKFC-57.
Howard Davis has won five of his last six fights against James Brown (BKFC-66), Sean Wilson (BKFC Fight Night Miami), Jeff Chiffens (BKFC-49), Eduardo Peralta (BKFC-45) and Trevor Morris (BKFC-38). His only loss during the last two years has come in a memorable title challenge against world champion Kai Stewart at BKFC-56.
Fighting out of Denver, CO, Chris Camozzi won the vacant BKFC Cruiserweight World Title with a hometown, show-stopping first round knockout of Sawyer DePee on October 25, 2024. Prior to winning the world title, Camozzi and Lorenzo Hunt engaged in a hotly contested battle won by the Florida native in defense of the title at BKFC-50 in Denver. Camozzi also holds first round knockouts over Daniel Spohn (BKFC-41) and Bubba McDaniel (BKFC-31).
In a stellar career full of viral moments inside the square circle and riding an eight-fight victory streak, Lorenzo Hunt moved up to the heavyweight division to challenge for his third world title against then BKFC Heavyweight World Champion Mick Terrill at KnuckleMania IV on April 27, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. Sustaining a bad shoulder injury in the first round, Hunt was forced to retire.
Hunt’s winning ledger in BKFC also includes exciting victories over current BKFC Light Heavyweight World Champion Mike Richman (KnuckleMania III), a one-punch international viral sensation, Quentin Henry (BKFC-30), Joe Riggs, (BKFC-24), Hector Lombard (BKFC-22), Josh Dyer (BKFC-17), Robert Morrow (KnuckleMania I), Davian Green (BKFC-14), Erick Lozano, (BKFC-12) and Reggie Pena (BKFC-8).
Fighting out of Lincolnshire, England, Rico Franco was victorious in his first three BKFC fights, all exciting knockouts against Kaleb Harris (BKFC-48), Axel Birbes (BKFC-40) and Darren Godfrey (BKFC-37). Most recently Franco challenged BKFC Welterweight World Champion Austin Trout on October 12 in Marbella, Spain, losing a hotly contested decision.
Ireland’s Jimmy Sweeney is thought by many to be one of the top bare-knuckle fighters in Europe. Sporting a regional record of 19-4 prior to making his BKFC debut in Italy, Sweeney has fought twice against Franco, splitting the fights on September 21, 2021 (Win) and November 16, 2019 (Loss). He also has fought twice against BKFC hard-core veteran Julian Lane, splitting the two fights. Currently, Sweeney is riding a four-fight winning streak.
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