{"id":486605,"date":"2026-02-17T22:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486605\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:11:07","slug":"gamebred-bareknuckle-mma-to-hold-dual-500k-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486605\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA to Hold Dual 500K Tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb webpexpress-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Masvidal-2-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Jorge Masvidal UFC\" title=\"Masvidal 2\"\/>Jorge Masvidal, UFC 272 Pre-Fight Press Conference Credit: Gabriel Gonzalez\/Cageside Press<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Masvidal\u2019s Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA is set to return, and it will be hosting a pair of $500,000 U.S. tournaments in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mma\/2026\/02\/16\/gamebred-bareknuckle-jorge-masvidal-tournaments-return\/88705373007\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a recent interview with MMA Junkie<\/a>, Masvidal revealed that he has secured new funding for the promotion, which hosted several events in 2023 and 2024 featuring the likes of Junior Dos Santos, Roy \u201cBig Country\u201d Nelson, Alan Belcher and others.<\/p>\n<p>After taking all of 2025 off, the promotion, which features the Unified Rules of MMA only without gloves, will host events on April 10 and May 1, 2026, kicking off tournaments at lightweight and heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p>Among the fights announced, UFC heavyweight vet Todd Duffee will face former PFL star <a class=\"link-primary-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tapology.com\/fightcenter\/fighters\/24968-bruno-cappelozza\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bruno Cappelozza<\/a> on the May 1 date in Miami, while Anthony Smith returns from retirement to face fellow UFC alum Chase Sherman as part of the April card.<\/p>\n<p>A former UFC title challenger at light heavyweight, Smith (38-22) retired off a loss against Zhang Mingyang last year.<\/p>\n<p>Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA bears the nickname of its founder, Jorge \u201cGamebred\u201d Masivdal, who also ran Gamebred FC and Gamebred Boxing in recent years. He told MMA Junkie Radio that \u201cWe\u2019re giving as much money as we can to the fighters,\u201d adding that \u201cReally, who\u2019s doing anything right now? It\u2019s just worked out perfectly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guto Innocente vs. Mohammed Usman and Alexandr Romanov vs. Nikolay Kovalenko have also been announced for the April card, which will be held in the Dominican Republic. Usman, brother of former UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman, was released by the UFC last year after failing a drug test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal, UFC 272 Pre-Fight Press Conference Credit: Gabriel Gonzalez\/Cageside Press Jorge Masvidal\u2019s Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA is set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,12059,4736,786,15810,15803,11877,15805,801,10280,785,2843,15808,5963,15804,15809,85,15806,787,15807],"class_list":{"0":"post-486605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bellator","11":"tag-conor-mcgregor","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-gsp","14":"tag-invicta","15":"tag-jon-jones","16":"tag-lfa","17":"tag-martial-arts","18":"tag-mixed-martial-arts","19":"tag-mma","20":"tag-one-championship","21":"tag-one-fc","22":"tag-pfl","23":"tag-rizin","24":"tag-ronda-rousey","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-titan-fc","27":"tag-ufc","28":"tag-wsof"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}