{"id":165007,"date":"2025-09-28T01:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165007\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:52:07","slug":"bare-knuckle-carlisles-kieron-sewell-wins-debut-bkfc-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165007\/","title":{"rendered":"Bare-knuckle: Carlisle&#8217;s Kieron Sewell wins debut BKFC fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Cumbrian got the better of Patryk Pientnik in Manchester.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sewell delivered the decisive blow in the second round as he won his bantamweight fight by knockout.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Carlisle fighter went on the attack with just over 30 seconds left in the second round.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A powerful right and left-hand combination sent Pientnik, a fellow debutant from Poland, to the canvas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sewell&#8217;s opponent got unsteadily to his feet amid referee Alan Jackson&#8217;s count but the fight was swiftly declared over.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The first round had seen Sewell &#8211; nicknamed &#8216;the Scumbag&#8217; &#8211; land an early right hook that had Pientnik wobbling, before the Carlisle boxer connected with another powerful left-hand shot as the fighters traded early blows.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>It was a first fight for Sewell (right) since being signed to the BKFC (Image: BKFC)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Pientnik survived the first round but the Cumbrian&#8217;s salvo in the second round earned him victory at BKFC 81 Manchester, with the fight taking place at the AO Arena.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsandstar.co.uk\/sport\/25486345.bkfc-carlisle-fighter-make-debut-manchester\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sewell was signed by the high-profile BKFC platform this summer<\/a> after impressing in early bare-knuckle bouts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He has been working with fellow Cumbrians such as Danny Christie, Carlisle&#8217;s former BKFC British champion, and top west Cumbrian coach Arron Adair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cumbrian got the better of Patryk Pientnik in Manchester. Sewell delivered the decisive blow in the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-165007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}