{"id":812870,"date":"2026-07-19T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812870\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:15:10","slug":"boxing-royalty-shines-at-bkb-56-in-los-angeles-ortiz-angulo-triumph-in-bare-knuckle-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812870\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing royalty shines at BKB 56 in Los Angeles: Ortiz, Angulo triumph in bare knuckle debuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing took over the sold-out Novo at LA Live in Los Angeles last Sat. night (July 18, 2026) for an evening of ungloved action inside the promotion\u2019s patented Trigon, featuring a trio of former boxing champions scattered across the VICE TV and talkSPORT fight card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Topping the \u201cCity of Angels\u201d lineup was former WBC Welterweight Champion Victor Ortiz. \u201cVicious\u201d needed all five rounds to deal with fellow pugilist Dominic Salcido, no stranger to the \u201csweet science,\u201d but ultimately swept the judges\u2019 scorecards to bring him a dominant decision win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Elsewhere on the card, former WBO Interim Light Middleweight Champion Alfredo Angulo, who fought everyone from Canelo Alvarez or Erislandy Lara, brought the Novo crowd to its feet with a stunning, second-round knockout over Super Middleweight slugger Rashad Bowens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former IBF Super Featherweight Champion Jojo Diaz joined Ortiz and Angulo in the win column, dismantling a very game but ultimately overmatched Nate Williams. Diaz is still just 33 years old and plans to make his return to the Super Lightweight division at one of the upcoming BKB shows later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Complete BKB 56 results from Los Angeles below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jackie Cataline vs. Alexa Gracias \u2014 split draw<br \/>Jorge Martinez def. Ryan Venable by knockout<br \/>Danny Ramirez def. JD Burns by knockout<br \/>Zion Tomlinson def. Said Abdulgaziev by knockout<br \/>Joseph Diaz def. Nate Williams by knockout<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jesse Sparks def. Darius Lesane by knockout<br \/>Ozzie Alvarez def. Kaine Tomlinson Jr. by unanimous decision<br \/>Henry Corrales def. Ihor Blazhenko by technical knockout (doctor\u2019s stoppage)<br \/>Alfredo Angulo def. Rashad Bowens by knockout<br \/>\u2028LT Nelson def. Serob Minasyan by technical knockout\u2028<br \/>Adel Altamimi def. Eduardo Perez by technical knockout (doctor\u2019s stoppage)<br \/>Victor Ortiz def. Dominic Salcido by unanimous decision<\/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 notes 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":"BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing took over the sold-out Novo at LA Live in Los Angeles last Sat. night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[29053,703,36109,49,48,33601,82],"class_list":["post-812870","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\/812870","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=812870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}