{"id":777398,"date":"2026-07-03T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777398\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:58:08","slug":"video-bkfc-president-shoves-fighter-after-weigh-in-stage-scuffle-bkfc-liberty-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777398\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: BKFC president shoves fighter after weigh-in stage scuffle | BKFC Liberty Brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There aren\u2019t any UFC fights this Fourth of July weekend, but Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) will still be around to deliver some fisticuffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The pugilistic promotion returns this Friday (July 3, 2026) from inside Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is headlined by a pair of title fights between Austin Trout vs. Ben Bonner and Britain Hart vs. Sarah Shell. Naturally, the weigh-ins went down earlier on Thursday, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2022\/4\/30\/23050224\/video-lorenzo-hunt-smashes-tomato-in-joe-riggs-face-at-bkfc-24-faceoff-mma-weigh-ins-fite-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in typical BKFC fashion<\/a>, things got a little handsy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The staredown between Welterweights Patrick Sullivan vs. Ruben Arroyo started off with an innocent bit of shadowboxing but quickly got out of hand. The two began angling for front position, resulting in some physical contact that prompted Sullivan to shove Arroyo off the stage entirely. BKFC President David Feldman was on hand and wasn\u2019t impressed. In fact, Feldman shoved \u201cf\u2014king punk\u201d Sullivan and asked aloud, \u201cWhy the f\u2014k would you do that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Check out the chaos below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Fortunately, it doesn\u2019t look like Arroyo fell all that far and is presumably still fit to compete on Friday. Feldman has a right to be irritated by the potentially fight-cancelling move \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2022\/4\/15\/23026129\/jeremy-stephens-on-drakkar-kloses-lingering-injuries-from-weigh-in-shove-is-what-it-is-move-on-pfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remember Jeremy Stephens vs. Drakkar Klose?<\/a> \u2014 but it\u2019s certainly rare to see a promotional president getting physical at his own show \u2026 yet still feels par for the bare knuckle course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tune in tomorrow for BKFC: Liberty Brawl results and highlights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There aren\u2019t any UFC fights this Fourth of July weekend, but Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) will still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[29053,703,49,48,33601,82],"class_list":["post-777398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-bare-knuckle-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777398","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=777398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}