BYB Naked Knuckle Boxing has scored a multi-year broadcast deal to air occasions on Vice TV with the primary card debuting on the community on Feb. 22.
The bare-knuckle preventing outfit turns into the primary main sports activities acquisition for Vice TV as the corporate shifts to a extra sports-first focus transferring ahead.
“We sit up for including dwell BYB Naked Knuckle Boxing, our first dwell occasion collection, as a mainstay of the Vice TV schedule as Vice Sports activities continues to fill its programming slate with compelling sports-themed docuseries, packages, dwell occasions, and podcasts,” Vice TV President Pete Gaffney stated in a press launch. “BYB is a fight sport surging in reputation, and having it on Vice TV helps us fulfill our mission of that includes provocative sports activities programming that our viewers now expects.”
The deal between BYB and Vice TV requires 13 dwell occasions to air in prime time in 2025 with the expectation that the majority playing cards happen on Saturday evening.
The primary battle card airing on Vice TV takes place on Feb. 22 with BYB 34 from Denver the place tremendous light-weight champion Harry Gigliotti defending his title towards Jon Barnard. The co-main occasion options featherweight champion Helen Peralta taking up Lailane Mota for a vacant tremendous featherweight title
BYB Naked Knuckle Boxing has continued to develop its footprint in recent times with fights going down within the firm’s three-sided trigon ring, which is touted as “the smallest preventing floor in fight sports activities,” leading to a 90 % knockout charge throughout fights.
Naked-knuckle preventing has exploded in reputation in recent times with BKFC turning into an trade chief whereas selling marquee occasions with fighters like as Mike Perry, Eddie Alvarez and Jeremy Stephens main the best way. BKFC inked a broadcast deal of its personal with DAZN in 2024 and now BYB appears to be like to affix the fray after signing a cope with Vice TV.
