{"id":766335,"date":"2026-06-28T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766335\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:39:08","slug":"former-ibf-champ-lee-selby-wins-bare-knuckle-boxing-debut-stops-antonio-rizzo-at-bkb-55-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766335\/","title":{"rendered":"Former IBF champ Lee Selby wins bare knuckle boxing debut, stops Antonio Rizzo at BKB 55 in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby, who also held the British, Commonwealth, and European straps, made his debut in the world of bare knuckle boxing last Sat. night (June 27) in Cardiff, Wales, stopping Italian slugger Antonio Rizzo in the second round of their BKB 55 headliner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cLike NWA said, I\u2019ve got an appetite for destruction,\u201d the 39-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/boxing\/4371893\/lee-selby-bkb-debut-ko\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Selby said after the fight<\/a>. \u201cIt felt amazing, and don\u2019t forget, I\u2019m almost 40 years of age. Rizzo is almost half my age; he could be my son. So, I\u2019m doing it for the 40-year-olds, the 40 club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Selby was the hometown favorite, hailing from nearby Barry, Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Elsewhere in the BKB 55 lineup, two-time BKB UK Champion and local hero Daniel Lerwell annihilated former British and European MMA champion Danny Mitchell with a sensational second-round knockout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Complete BKB 55 quick results below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Lee Selby def. Antonio Rizzo by KO<br \/>Daniel Lerwell def. Danny Mitchell by KO<br \/>Dan Podmore def. Jarome Hatch by TKO<br \/>Iestyn Edwards def. Ashley Williams by UD<br \/>Joe Morgan def. Joe Smith KO<br \/>Mark O\u2019Neil def. Kamil Sokolowski by TKO<br \/>Ash Davenport def. Tony Lafferty by UD<br \/>Geraint Goodridge def. Tom Pratt by TKO<br \/>Ethan George def. Kornelijus Sabaliauskas by SD<br \/>Claas Lilie def. Dan Matthews by TKO<br \/>Ollie Sentance def. Corey Healey by TKO<br \/>Jordan Bell def. Tusolo Williams by TKO<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For more bare knuckle boxing news and results click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/bare-knuckle-boxing-results-rules-ppv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby, who also held the British, Commonwealth, and European straps, made his debut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[29053,703,36109,49,48,33601,82],"class_list":["post-766335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-bare-knuckle-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766335","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=766335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}