{"id":41017,"date":"2026-10-12T04:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Victor-Ortiz-Paulie-Malignaggi-set-for-Bare-Knuckle-Boxing-clash-203174"},"modified":"2026-10-12T04:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:16:59","slug":"victor-ortiz-paulie-malignaggi-set-for-bare-knuckle-boxing-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/victor-ortiz-paulie-malignaggi-set-for-bare-knuckle-boxing-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Ortiz, Paulie Malignaggi set for Bare Knuckle Boxing clash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/victor-ortiz-paulie-malignaggi-set-for-bare-knuckle-boxing-clash.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p> Former boxing world champions Victor Ortiz and Paulie Malignaggi<br \/>\nare set to meet under the BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing banner.<\/p>\n<p>BKB announced Saturday that Ortiz and Malignaggi will headline BKB<br \/>\n62 on Dec. 5 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. The bout will<br \/>\ntake place inside the promotion\u2019s Trigon ring, with tickets<br \/>\nscheduled to go on sale Oct. 12.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Former boxing world champions Victor Ortiz and Paulie<br \/>\nMalignaggi headline BKB 62<\/h2>\n<p>Ortiz (33-7-3, 25 KOs) is a former WBC welterweight champion who<br \/>\nfaced <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Floyd-Mayweather-257601\">Floyd<br \/>\nMayweather<\/a> Jr., Andre Berto and Marcos Maidana in traditional<br \/>\nboxing. He made his bare-knuckle debut at BKB 56, earning a<br \/>\nunanimous decision over Dominic Salcido.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been in some of the biggest fights of my career, and now I\u2019m<br \/>\nready for a completely different challenge in the Trigon. Paulie is<br \/>\na former world champion with a lot of experience, but this is<br \/>\nbare-knuckle boxing and I\u2019m coming in prepared to fight,\u201d Ortiz<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Malignaggi (36-8, 7 KOs) held world titles in two weight classes<br \/>\nduring his professional boxing career. The Brooklyn native most<br \/>\nrecently challenged BKB super welterweight champion <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Rolando-Dy-87380\">Rolando Dy<\/a>,<br \/>\nwho stopped him in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe ready, Vic. December 5th, I\u2019m coming to your hometown, and I\u2019m<br \/>\ntaking you out,\u201d Malignaggi said.<\/p>\n<p>BKB CEO David Tetreault described the matchup as a fight that<br \/>\nshould have happened years ago in traditional boxing. The promotion<br \/>\nsaid additional bouts for BKB 62 will be announced later.<\/p>\n<p><center readability=\"1.8602620087336\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.5109170305677\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two legends, one crown. \ud83d\udc51 Victor Ortiz vs.<br \/>\nPaulie Malignaggi is set for #BKB62 King of the Game. The fight<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ve all been waiting for. \ud83d\udc40 https:\/\/t.co\/C3imVkd6Ka<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing (@bkbbareknuckle) <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bkbbareknuckle\/status\/2108975770789978248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><br \/>\nOctober 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former boxing world champions Victor Ortiz and Paulie Malignaggi are set to meet under the BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing banner. BKB announced Saturday that Ortiz and Malignaggi will headline BKB 62 on Dec. 5 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. The bout will take place inside the promotion\u2019s Trigon ring, with tickets scheduled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41017","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\/41017","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=41017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}