{"id":40910,"date":"2026-10-07T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Marko-Martinjak-vs-Matty-Askin-title-fight-added-to-BKB-61-203111"},"modified":"2026-10-07T06:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:09:07","slug":"marko-martinjak-vs-matty-askin-title-fight-added-to-bkb-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/marko-martinjak-vs-matty-askin-title-fight-added-to-bkb-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Marko Martinjak vs. Matty Askin title fight added to BKB 61"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/marko-martinjak-vs-matty-askin-title-fight-added-to-bkb-61.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p> Bare Knuckle Boxing returns to London on Nov. 14, with a world<br \/>\nchampionship bout added to the BKB 61 lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning BKB bridgerweight champion Marko Martinjak will defend his<br \/>\ntitle against former British cruiserweight champion Matty Askin at<br \/>\nindigo at The O2. The bout will serve as the co-main event under<br \/>\nLee Selby vs. Ollie Sentance.<\/p>\n<h2>BKB bridgerweight champion Marko Martinjak will defend against<br \/>\nMatty Askin in London<\/h2>\n<p>According to BKB\u2019s announcement Tuesday, Martinjak (13-2, 13 KOs)<br \/>\nwill return to action against Askin (1-0, 1 KO) in the title<br \/>\nmatchup.<\/p>\n<p>Croatia\u2019s Martinjak will look to continue his reign as BKB<br \/>\nbridgerweight champion. Askin, meanwhile, enters his biggest<br \/>\nbare-knuckle bout after winning his promotional debut. The matchup<br \/>\nadds another former boxing champion to a BKB 61 card already<br \/>\nheadlined by Selby, a former IBF featherweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion also announced a welterweight rematch between Aaron<br \/>\nMcCallum and Simey Doherty. Ash Devenport will face Kallum Skhane<br \/>\nin another welterweight clash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bare Knuckle Boxing returns to London on Nov. 14, with a world championship bout added to the BKB 61 lineup. Reigning BKB bridgerweight champion Marko Martinjak will defend his title against former British cruiserweight champion Matty Askin at indigo at The O2. The bout will serve as the co-main event under Lee Selby vs. Ollie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40910","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\/40910","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=40910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}