{"id":689194,"date":"2026-07-13T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689194\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:02:11","slug":"bare-knuckle-danny-christie-set-for-bkfc-bout-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689194\/","title":{"rendered":"Bare-knuckle: Danny Christie set for BKFC bout in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The fighter will face Italian opponent Enzo Tobia in a middleweight contest at Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) 91, taking place in Naples on Saturday, July 18.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A former light heavyweight champion, Mr Christie also fought for the middleweight world title in Marbella.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A win in Italy could put him back in contention for future high-profile bouts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Arron Adair, Mr Christie\u2019s coach, said: &#8220;Danny has been itching to get back in the ring.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He\u2019s had a couple of gloved bouts to keep him ticking over, but the BKFC is what excites him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We can\u2019t wait to show the world that he isn\u2019t done yet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;All the hard work is now done; we fly out to Italy next week, and he\u2019s ready to go into the lion&#8217;s den and come out on top, with a massive performance and win.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Massive thankyou to all the fans from across Cumbria that\u2019s making the trip to Italy.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Christie trains at AA Boxing under Mr Adair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fighter will face Italian opponent Enzo Tobia in a middleweight contest at Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689194","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=689194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}