Paige
VanZant will once again be the top name on a marquee, capping
off the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship’s first foray into Great
Britain this July.
First reported by Ariel
Helwani, BKFC head David Feldman announced on the BKFC Show on
Thursday that VanZant (0-2 BK) will be headlining the first BKFC
event held in Europe. The fight card will be held on July 9 at the
Alexandra Palace in London. No additional bouts have been
announced, nor did Feldman state the name of her opponent. Feldman
also stated that the European tour would continue with a show in
Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Aug. 6.
Despite going 0-2 in her first pair of fights under the BKFC
banner, she will be competing in the main event of this fight
night. The flyweight known as “12 Gauge” left the Ultimate Fighting Championship after losing
three of her last four, and she debuted with the bare-knuckle
league in February 2021. VanZant dropped a unanimous decision to
Britain Hart, and then came back several months later to rematch
Rachael
Ostovich in the “squared circle.” VanZant lost that fight as
well on the scorecards.
BKFC has traveled abroad in the past, putting on BKFC Thailand 1 in
December, which was held at the Royal Cliffs Hotels Group in
Pattaya, Thailand. It will be returning to the Kingdom of Thailand
on May 7 for its second card there, and a pair of BKFC Thailand
titles will be on the line that night. The promotion last staged an
event in New York on March 12, and an interim bantamweight strap
went to Jared Grant after a hard-fought decision over Anthony
Retic.