Sturgis, South Dakota (August 8, 2026) For the third straight year, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC), The World’s Fastest Growing Combat Sports Promotion, drew a massive crowd on Saturday at The 86th Annual Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, featuring a sensational night of action highlighted by devastating knockouts.
Demonstrating heavyweight power in the BKFC Fight Night Sturgis main event, ‘Defiant’ Bryant Acheson, (6-0), of Billings, MT scored a blistering first round knockout of Salt Lake City, UT native Mike Jones, (3-2). Utilizing a perfectly timed right hand, Acheson drilled Jones hard to the canvas as the fight was stopped at 1:58 of the stanza.
Said the victorious Acheson, “Nobody can take my power, give me my title shot!”
Co-headlining in the heavyweight division, Bear ‘The Last Barbarian’ Hill, (3-1), of Ardmore, AL dominated in his fight with Brady Meister, (2-3), of Great Falls, MT. With battering knockdowns occurring twice in the second and twice in the third round, Hill was awarded the victory over the game Meister at :52 of the third stanza.
Alonzo ‘AAA’ Martinez, (5-1), of Omaha, NE stunningly knocked out Zeb ‘CWB’ Vincent, (3-5), of Kansas City, KS in the second round. Switching from southpaw to orthodox, Martinez sent Vincent to the canvas with a one punch, overhand right to end the fight at the :53 mark of the stanza.
Female bantamweight Shyanna ‘The Blue-Collar Brawler’ Bintliff, (2-1), of Rapid City, SD stopped Crystal ‘The Rugged Beauty’ Pittman, (3-4), of Sarasota, FL in the third round (1:12). Using a sharp shooting strategy and excellent bare-knuckle fighting technique throughout, Bintliff dropped Pittman three times in round two and twice in the third stanza to earn the hard-fought victory.
Middleweight Lucas Wright, (1-0), of Haydenville, OH impressed in his BKFC debut, defeating Bryan ‘The Iceman’ McDowell, (1-2), of Coure D’Alene, ID in an all-action five round clash.
The muscular Wright, displaying excellent forward action throughout the fight, dropped the tall and rangy McDowell in the first round. After a dynamic second round featuring excellent two-action, both fighters would hit the canvas in round three, Wright first and then McDowell.
Wright would go down again in the fifth and final round, however the judge’s awarded him a unanimous decision by scores of 47-46 twice and 48-45.
Welterweight newcomer ‘Cassius’ Clay Collard, (1-0) of Twin Falls, ID was victorious over Daniel Keepers, (0-2), of North Las Vegas, NV. Collard roughed up Keepers with hard body shots throughout prior to garnering a stoppage at 1:42 of round three.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota featherweight Traevon ‘Kid Cobra’ Kroger, (3-0), badly hurt the game Edmonton, Alberta, Canada native, KB Dubeau-Staby, (0-1), in the first round capped by one battering knockdown. The fight was stopped by the physician at the end of the initial stanza.
Middleweight Justin Walters, (1-2), of Pow County, KY looking very much improved, dropped Art Driscoll, (0-4), of Santiago D.R. four times, twice in each of the first two rounds, with the hard-hitting southpaw awarded the victory at 1:22 of round two.
Opening the show, welterweight Jason Simon, (1-0), of Sisseton, SD, quickly impressed, dropping BKFC debuting Jason Sanderson, (0-1), of Huntsville, MI with his first punch, a massive left from the southpaw. Sending Sanderson twice more to the canvas in the opening stanza, Simon would earn the stoppage at 1:18 of the first round.
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