We’ve been to the Talksport studios, announced a huge fight – and the best is yet to come.
BKB 43 goes ahead in Bolton on Saturday night!
That is a show that has everything. There’s a world-title fight between quality operators Harry Gigliotti and Kallum Skhane, the return of Hall-of-Famer Scott McHugh and a grudge fight.
Dorian Darch and Tyrone Elliffe are both huge characters – and huge men too!
Tyrone has been doing plenty of talking in the build up to their bridgerweight fight and believes he has got under Dorian’s skin.
We will see how the big Welshman answers when he gets in the trigon on Saturday night.
Talksport will be screening all the action live and that is where you can also watch the weigh in on Friday.
That is also where we will reveal Paulie Malignaggi’s opponent in his first fight for us.
Paulie will be in action in Bristol on September 6 and fair to say people are lining up to fight him!
It’s not that Paulie is a bad guy – he’s actually one of the good guys – but as a former two-weight world gloved champion he has a huge profile.
Paulie says his target is to become a two-sport, three-weight division world champion.
He won world gloved titles at super-lightweight and welterweight and will be fighting for us at super-welterweight.
Fair to say every fighter on our roster who can make super-welterweight has been on the phone to me over the last few days!
Paulie knows he’s a target for everyone and relishes the challenge.
He has said in interviews he doesn’t want to use his reputation and position to jump the queue. He wants to fight his way into title contention and tune in to Talksport’s YouTube channel on Friday to discover who he fights in Bristol.
BKB 45 – our first show in Bristol – is topped by a superfight between Jack Marshman and Dan Lerwell.
Jack is a former UFC fighter coming off a world-title loss and everyone who follows combat sports knows Dan and what happens when his fist meets a chin!
Enjoy Saturday night
Until next week
Jim Freeman