Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship is expanding its reach to the Far East.
boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara announced that the organizations have agreed to a talent-sharing partnership with plans for co-promoted events in the near future.
“Today we get to announce the official partnership with BKFC and Rizin to produce Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship shows in Japan and all over the southeast Asia region, as well as assist Rizin with whatever else they need from around the world,” Feldman said. “We’re really super excited about this partnership and to partner with such a legend like Sakakibara.”
The arrangement will begin with Rizin fighters competing under the BKFC banner at an upcoming event on July 12 at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, California. There, Rizin’s Tatsuki Shinotsuka will face Cary Caprio in a bare-knuckle boxing match.will face an as yet to be named opponent on the same card in another bare-knuckle contest. Dodson has previously competed for the Japanese promotion in MMA fights on three separate occasions.
“We do believe that BKFC has everything it takes to deliver that new excitement over here. The Japanese fans, they like it, and more so we do believe that David and his team are extremely professional and we believe they know what they’re doing. It just only made sense for us to partner with them.” The talent sharing arrangement will continue for the foreseeable future, but Feldman confirmed that the goal is to eventually take an entire BKFC show to Japan while co-promoting with Rizin.
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