00:00and the president of bkfc bkfc is back tonight at the seminal hard rock hotel and casino few
00:05tickets remain bkfc.com but they're expecting their 16th straight sellout right down here in
00:10south florida david feldman joining us here on the program what's going on david how are you man
00:15i'm doing well man brendan how are you i'm good man welcome back to south florida it's great to
00:19have you back here you got uh you got your your your bare knuckle mike tyson back into it tonight
00:24uh leonardo padomo looking to go to 12 and 0 uh does everyone's even out of the first round one
00:31time like do you feel like with him do you have to load up the card because similarly to mike
00:37tyson
00:37the pay-per-views were very short like do you have to load up the card because you know main
00:41event
00:42might be a short night you know i mean i do and i don't because i think people don't mind
00:47knowing
00:47that they're going in there and they're going to see a one-round destruction if that's what happens
00:52and that's that that's usually what happens with leonardo padomo he's been out of the first round
00:57one time and i don't expect him to get out of the first round tonight so you think uh bears
01:02in
01:02trouble tonight yeah i do i honestly do what like do you see in these weigh-ins do you see
01:08like the
01:08intimidation factor with him like does he have any of that that mind control of having his opponents
01:14beat before he gets in there he does that confidence level the stare that he has it reminds me of
01:19a
01:19young mike tyson stare it's just he's staring through him into his soul this is this style
01:25of boxing and bkfc right you're you're you're in there bare knuckles that in itself when you look
01:31across at another person that carries a little bit of you know kind of gravitas where how are you
01:38going to intimidate a guy who's fighting you with his bare knuckles too you know and like it just seems
01:43like the style of fighting like a lot of that there's nothing to hide you there's nothing to
01:49like you can't like go in there talking a whole bunch of trash i mean you shouldn't be but you
01:56do
01:56a lot of guys do a lot of guys good guys go in there and talk to trash and they
02:01get shut up very
02:01very fast but i mean it's a it's a different sport i mean it's probably the realest kind of combat
02:07sport
02:07that there is in the world there's nothing more real than two men banging it out with bare knuckles
02:12you know mano y mano and the guys actually stepping up i mean i take my hat off to bare
02:19hill he took this fight on two week notice we had another opponent he tore his rotator cuff so
02:23we had to um step up bare hill he's very very confident tonight i just saw the kind of confidence
02:29that i see in a lot of fighters that are at the weigh-in and they're confident and then they
02:33see that
02:34stare down across the ring and they lose all their confidence and i'm not saying that's going to happen
02:38then i but i see the way that leonardo perdoma actually stares through these guys 12 and 0 11
02:44first round knockouts i mean that's that's mike tyson it's crazy he's been he's he's he's so scary
02:50uh you also got el guy o'brien durand in uh in action tonight a south florida fair that guy's
02:54got
02:55personality dude i mean leroy he is he is so much fun uh like he's he's just he's completely like
03:01built
03:01himself up down here and the kind of following that he has he's like one of these guys you just
03:05get
03:06into south florida david and like he just draws his people down here he does um he's he's going
03:12to be fantastic he's been fantastic for us he's fighting a very very very tenured veteran tonight
03:17charles um formerly crazy horse now felony bennett so he's he's fighting the guy that's been in there
03:23for a long long long time and a guy that actually is coming off of he's coming off a split
03:29decision
03:29loss when everybody thought he won and a win right before that in philadelphia at our knuckle mania show
03:34so i mean he's he's in very very good shape and he's motivated right now he's very very motivated
03:39so i'm going to see i mean that's going to be a great matchup but you know brian brian duran
03:44has
03:44been on a great great hot streak guys also we we just left the caseya center we had a we
03:50had a tour
03:51visit there we will be there in late january or february that's going to be an amazing card for us
03:56yeah all right absolutely that's that's pretty awesome man i mean that's that's a that's a huge step
04:00up so you're going on going to the heats house that's pretty awesome david i mean we're going big
04:05i mean that's that's what we have to do now i mean it it's not like a you know like
04:10go big or go home
04:10but we really have to go big now we just have to take that step we have to take more
04:14of a risk and
04:15more of a chance to get to where we want to be we did that a few weeks ago which
04:18i'm sure we're going
04:19to talk about a little bit and we have to continue doing that continue raising the bar for ourself
04:23and for the fighters and i think that every time that we do that we we reach the bar we
04:29get there
04:30bkfc 93 is at the hard rock live tonight seminal hard rock hotel and casino in hollywood it starts
04:35at seven o'clock doors open at six remaining few tickets you can get a bkfc but expecting their
04:3916th straight sellout yeah you guys were just at fenway park uh that had to be pretty damn cool
04:45what was the atmosphere like i mean boston loves a fight obviously but what was the atmosphere like at uh
04:49at fenway it was the loudest most boisterous crowd that that we've ever had and you wouldn't think
04:55so in a stadium that we would get that kind of noise because there's no cap to it but i
05:00mean it
05:00was unbelievable the energy was unbelievable the fans were fantastic the fights were some of the best
05:05and we did some things that we never did before we actually did fireworks so we had fireworks inside
05:10the ring and outside the ring it was just tremendous because brendan we got to actually we didn't rent
05:15the facility we it was a partnership with us in fenway park so our first foray into a stadium
05:21with the major league baseball team was actually a partnership and a super successful one at that
05:26since that time two weeks ago we've been reached out to by 17 different nfl or major league baseball
05:33stadiums so that's cool things are really really heating up for bkfc do you have a dream one like do
05:37you want to do like wrigley for a wrigley is there is there a certain wrigley i mean wrigley we
05:43we talked
05:44to the um la soccer team and doing one at that arena and then when i told my son david
05:49who is the uh
05:50the executive producer for us he said no dad man we got to do dodger stadium and that's that's the
05:55goal right that's the goal i mean look just to do fenway park and anything and even being mentioned
06:00in the same breath for a company like us that really started with four people in attendance we
06:05started from nothing man and now we we did fenway park we're talking to obviously we're going to go to
06:10the casella center we did major arenas we're we're breaking attendance records for combat sports
06:16in a lot of different cities now so things are doing really really well for us and it's it's very
06:21humbling for us to be able to do i mean to be able to say that we did a phenomenal
06:25event at
06:26fenway park and then move on to these other stadiums so it's great for us you got uh coming
06:31up later on this month you got yoel romero and darren till in manchester i imagine manchester
06:37like i feel like i've seen documentaries of underground bare knuckle i know you said boston
06:42was craziest atmosphere but i feel like manchester could uh could could possibly top that with darren
06:47till in the building i think so i mean some of the some of the shows that we did in
06:51uh in the uk so
06:53far have just been so crazy the crowd reaction was just unbelievable they really they got behind it
06:59even better than i've ever seen anywhere else so i'm expecting an unbelievable crowd there we're trying
07:04to uh get to 18 000 in attendance there um that would be a really really big show for us
07:09obviously
07:09in the uk darren till versus yoel romero i mean a very sought after match you got the ageless wonder
07:15is what i what his new nickname is is yoel romero and darren till has been looking really really great
07:21the last couple of years so we're we're looking forward to an exciting fight night there and then
07:26the next one we go to is actually november 7th we're going to glasgow scotland that one i think is
07:32going to be the the craziest crowd it feels like it feels built in for hooliganism like it just does
07:37like it feels like they're all just like yes this is pints and just watching bare knuckle fighting it
07:41just they they feel so at home there with that they got to be it's got to be incredible like
07:47even just
07:47being around town for those for the lead up that week has to be incredible yeah i mean every time
07:52we
07:53do something like that over there it's like the whole entire city backs it and and that's really
07:57fantastic and it's just been great like i said the the growth has been unbelievable but going over
08:03to the uk uk is our number two market we're also then going um actually prior to that october 3rd
08:09we
08:09go back to australia for a second fight in australia and i think that's probably going to be just by
08:14the reaction to the crowd and the size of the crowd that'll probably be our number three market and
08:18that's like those crowds there i'm with rugby over there in in the uk they really really kind
08:25of get what bare knuckle fighting is and obviously i don't have to explain to uk fans they're just
08:30they're just great and they love bare knuckle fighting and what we're doing in the united
08:33states is just something else and again just very very happy about the growth and where we're going
08:38but another stop tonight at the hard rock seminal i do have to correct you and i'm sorry for doing
08:43this but this will actually be our 17 straight sellout at the hard rock seminal so we're very proud of
08:49that mark because prior to us going there not many people really sold out at the hard rock seminal
08:54and now we're doing 17 straight 17 straight man that's uh that's that's impressive before we get
08:58you out of here you guys can get your tickets a few remaining bkfc.com doors open at six o
09:02'clock
09:03tonight cards at seven uh can you tell me a little bit about this uh this this 20 million dollar
09:10baddest tournament like what is going on here mcgregor's uh i guess is he hosting a show give
09:14us the the lowdown on all that yeah mcgregor's hosting it we're actually we have tito ortiz and
09:19eddie alvarez coming tonight we're talking to them about also being coaches for it um
09:23we really do we're doing uh tryouts in five different continents in the next three months
09:29we're we're in search for the world's baddest man and the world's baddest man is between 185 pounds and
09:35275 uh 275 pounds guys that that want to square off and and bang it out bare knuckle because i
09:43really
09:44truly think that's like the world's baddest man yes the grappling and the ufc stuff that's great and
09:49and they're badass fighters over there but i mean if you can stand in front of someone bare knuckles
09:54and bang it out we're going to have the world's baddest name associated with bare knuckle fighting
09:58championship so the world's baddest man will be in in bare knuckle fighting championship a 20 million
10:05dollar prize pool for the top eight guys and it'll it's going to air on fox nation so it's it
10:12it's going
10:12to be great is the idea is it open weight like is that how you're planning on doing it like
10:17they can
10:17fight so a 185 or could try and beat a heavyweight yeah obviously we're going to try to match them
10:22closer to weight at the beginning but as this thing unfolds a 185 guy could fight a 275 pound guy
10:28and then we really do get to see who is the baddest right because there is some 185ers out here
10:34in
10:34bare knuckle fighting that i think could take a 275 pound fighter and and we're going to see how that
10:40thing pans out but like i said we have five tryouts coming up the first one's actually in manchester
10:45right before that fight and then we go to australia we're doing a tryout there then we're doing a tryout
10:49in serbia we're doing a tryout in las vegas and we're going to do a tryout right here in miami
10:54in
10:55in december and we're going to i think you know so far we have about um 12 000 fighters that
11:01have signed
11:01up to be a part of this so far obviously got to wean that down but we're going to end
11:05up with uh with
11:0664 and then we're going to go to 32 we're going to start the show with 16 fighters eight of
11:12those 16
11:13fighters are all going to be very very wealthy men at the end of this tournament yeah that sounds
11:17awesome that's that's amazing that's like that's a sick idea and the spots that you picked for tryouts
11:25or the hotbeds i just said serbia i lit up i was like yeah uh day we appreciate man have
11:31a great
11:31show tonight again bkfc 93 tonight at the hard rock live 11 fights starting at 7 p.m doors open
11:37at 6
11:37uh the few remaining tickets you can get at bkfc.com but they do expect a sellout appreciate the time
11:42man thank you so much as always thanks thanks for having me appreciate it man
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