BKB CEO David Tetreault is making waves since onboarding with the promotion but additionally has wishes to foster cross promotional agreements with boxing organizations. Mentioning a need to co-promote with leagues like Zuffa Boxing and Matchroom Boxing while explaining why that might make sense contemplating the roster that BKB Naked Knuckle Boxing has, Tetreault stated [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“Yeah, An enormous cost that I carried out inside the corporate was I actually wished to go after some very expert boxers. Once I joined BKB and I used to be capable of go to the UK as a lot as I did as a result of they had been staging fights there, I noticed a ability degree in these fighters that was just a little bit completely different. As a result of all the heritage within the UK actually comes from the boxing custom. Within the US, we had been recruiting numerous MMA fighters from PFL, UFC, Bellator, and so forth. Very, superb fighters.”
“However I actually upped the sport with our matchmaker Mel Valenzuela. Defined to him, I actually need to go after pure strikers from the MMA class, and I need to go after some very, very expert boxers within the boxing class. With that being stated, we’ve been lucky sufficient to signal Lee Selby, Victor Ortiz, the Vargas brothers, Yuriorkis Gamboa. That’s sort of the beginning.”
“Then only recently, Aspen Ladd, after which most lately, Sharif Rahman. So, that’s our ethos. That’s our cost. It actually differentiates us in our class. We’re one of the best bare-knuckle group on the planet with the way in which that we’re transferring and the way in which that we’re operating.”
Referencing the Ortiz camp and a clip that was going round of Tetreault explaining the significance of the clinch whereas competing within the BKB Mighty Trigon, Tetreault acknowledged [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“Yeah, effectively, I imply while you spent as a lot time as I did at Golden Boy. Been out and in of gyms and actually Oscar [De La Hoya] and I might discuss his fights and all of that, you actually get an excellent understanding. I used to be at all times earlier than I transitioned into boxing from leisure, I used to be an enormous boxing fan from a really younger age. Sugar Ray Leonard was my hero. So then I moved into [Mike] Tyson after which Oscar after which right here we’re, you recognize. It’s sort of unbelievable.”
Contemplating his Golden Boy, is Tetreault all in favour of working with Oscar De La Hoya too?
With Tetrault’s documented historical past working with Golden Boy, when requested if there was an curiosity in additionally co-promoting with Oscar De La Hoya, Tetreault quipped [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“Oh, I imply, apparently sufficient, that door would at all times be open to co-promote with Oscar [De La Hoya]. Oscar and I again in 2020 had conversations with Mike Vazquez and BKB. We had been it. We had been including it to our Fb Watch distribution, which we had a license price for. At the moment, him and I agreed that possibly it was just a little untimely, however our eye was on that.”
“He’s received nice fighters. We now have nice fighters. There’s numerous alternative to probably do this. Oscar is among the best promoters on the market, and he is aware of what he’s doing. Was one of many best fighters ever within the historical past of the game.”
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