{"id":137419,"date":"2025-09-12T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137419\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:06:08","slug":"yoel-romero-makes-weight-for-bkfc-80-debut-faces-off-with-theo-doukas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137419\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoel Romero makes weight for BKFC 80 debut faces off with Theo Doukas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former three-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight title challenger Yoel Romero is making his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/11\/24465597\/bkfc-signs-four-former-ufc-stars-including-yoel-romero-derek-brunson-thiago-santos-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highly anticipated bare-knuckle boxing debut<\/a> tomorrow night (Fri., Sept. 12, 2025) when he takes on Theo Doukas in the \u201cFeatured\u201d bout of Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/bare-knuckle-boxing-results-rules-ppv\/313683\/yoel-romero-draws-some-construction-worker-for-bkfc-debut-fans-warn-promoters-to-have-an-ambulance-ready-on-sept-12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BKFC) 80: Perdomo vs. Adams 2<\/a>, inside Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The two fighters faced off at the BKFC 80 ceremonial weigh-ins, and Romero\u2014still an absolute physical specimen at 48\u2014looked ready to make an immediate impact in the promotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Since his release from the UFC in late 2020, Romero has competed five times in Bellator and PFL, then went on to destroy two opponents under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/3\/23\/24391872\/highlights-results-dirty-boxing-championship-1-romero-perry-jones-video-watch-knockout-hylton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dirty Boxing banner<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/3\/23\/24391872\/highlights-results-dirty-boxing-championship-1-romero-perry-jones-video-watch-knockout-hylton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>). His transition to bare-knuckle boxing adds another chapter to a career defined by knockout power and relentless aggression (who the hell would fight this man with no gloves?)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The answer is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/bare-knuckle-boxing-results-rules-ppv\/313683\/yoel-romero-draws-some-construction-worker-for-bkfc-debut-fans-warn-promoters-to-have-an-ambulance-ready-on-sept-12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doukas<\/a>, making his BKFC debut after a 2-2 run in MMA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Also on the BKFC 80 card is Kevin Ferguson Jr., son of the late Kimbo Slice, who will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/midnight-mmamania-news\/386489\/midnight-mania-kimbo-slice-jr-signs-with-bkfc-for-sept-12-debut\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">making his own BKFC debut<\/a> against veteran Derek Perez. With Romero leading the card, fans are in for a night of high-stakes, action-packed fights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former three-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight title challenger Yoel Romero is making his highly anticipated bare-knuckle boxing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[29053,49,48,641,33601,638,82,3194],"class_list":["post-137419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-bare-knuckle-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}