{"id":760466,"date":"2026-06-26T00:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760466\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T00:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:44:12","slug":"ex-ufc-fighter-aspen-ladd-signs-with-bkb-bare-knuckle-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760466\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UFC fighter Aspen Ladd signs with BKB bare-knuckle promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Aspen Ladd is keeping the gloves off, but has shifted to a different organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">BKB officials announced in a press release that the former UFC fighter has signed a multi-fight deal with the bare-knuckle promotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI\u2019m excited for this next chapter and the opportunity to compete in BKB,\u201d Ladd said in the release. \u201cBare knuckle boxing brings out a different level of intensity and authenticity, and that\u2019s something that really appeals to me as a fighter. I can\u2019t wait to get started and show BKB fans what I can do inside the Trigon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A person with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that Ladd signed a four-fight deal with the company, with her first fight to be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ladd had a seven-fight run in the UFC that ended with back-to-back losses to Raquel Pennington and Norma Dumont, along with a weight miss for a scheduled fight with Sara McMann in September 2022. Since then, Ladd went 3-2 for the PFL and earned a first-round knockout win in her bare-knuckle debut at BKFC 84 this past November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aspen Ladd is keeping the gloves off, but has shifted to a different organization. BKB officials announced in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-760466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760466","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=760466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}