{"id":40849,"date":"2026-09-30T00:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/ExIBF-champion-Lee-Selby-gets-unbeaten-test-in-BKB-61-main-event-203019"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:21:28","slug":"ex-ibf-champion-lee-selby-gets-unbeaten-test-in-bkb-61-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/ex-ibf-champion-lee-selby-gets-unbeaten-test-in-bkb-61-main-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-IBF champion Lee Selby gets unbeaten test in BKB 61 main event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ex-ibf-champion-lee-selby-gets-unbeaten-test-in-bkb-61-main-event.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p> Lee \u201cLightning\u201d Selby will headline BKB 61 against Ollie \u201cThe<br \/>\nDeath\u201d Sentance on Nov. 14 at Indigo at The O2 in London.<\/p>\n<p>BKB announced the all-British matchup Tuesday, with the former IBF<br \/>\nfeatherweight champion set to make his second appearance in the<br \/>\npromotion\u2019s Trigon. Selby had previously been confirmed for the<br \/>\nevent, but his opponent had not been announced.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Lee Selby faces 2-0 bare-knuckle finisher Ollie Sentance in<br \/>\nLondon<\/h2>\n<p>Selby retired from professional boxing in 2022, bringing an end to<br \/>\na career in which he captured the IBF featherweight championship.<br \/>\nHe made his BKB debut at BKB 55 in June, stopping Antonio Rizzo via<br \/>\nsecond-round TKO.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Welshman will now make his first BKB appearance in<br \/>\nLondon, where he will face another undefeated bare-knuckle fighter<br \/>\nin Sentance.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to getting back in the Trigon and<br \/>\nfighting in London again,\u201d Selby said. \u201cOllie is a tough opponent<br \/>\nand I know he\u2019ll be coming to bring a fight, so I\u2019m expecting a<br \/>\nproper battle. It\u2019s always special fighting in front of the British<br \/>\nfans and I\u2019m excited to headline BKB 61 and put on a great night<br \/>\nfor everyone at The O2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sentance enters the matchup with a 2-0 bare-knuckle record, with<br \/>\nboth victories coming by stoppage. The Kidderminster,<br \/>\nWorcestershire, native made his BKB debut in February, stopping<br \/>\nNico Earwaker in the fourth round before adding another TKO victory<br \/>\nover Corey Healey at BKB 55.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old competed in several combat sports, including mixed<br \/>\nmartial arts and kickboxing, before moving into bare-knuckle<br \/>\nboxing.<\/p>\n<p><center readability=\"2.1061224489796\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.3183673469388\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BKB RETURNS TO LONDON! \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7<\/p>\n<p>Former World Champion Lee Selby vs. Ollie Sentance headlines<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BKB61?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BKB61<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f Tickets on sale now at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5lBvCaM4am\">https:\/\/t.co\/5lBvCaM4am<\/a> <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qh7OjCVquf\">pic.twitter.com\/qh7OjCVquf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing (@bkbbareknuckle) <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bkbbareknuckle\/status\/2104934926697288069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><br \/>\nSeptember 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee \u201cLightning\u201d Selby will headline BKB 61 against Ollie \u201cThe Death\u201d Sentance on Nov. 14 at Indigo at The O2 in London. BKB announced the all-British matchup Tuesday, with the former IBF featherweight champion set to make his second appearance in the promotion\u2019s Trigon. Selby had previously been confirmed for the event, but his opponent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}