BKB Naked Knuckle Boxing at this time confirmed that former UFC title contender Aspen Ladd will make her BKB debut towards Bianca Daimoni at BKB 58 on Saturday, August 29, 2026, on the James L. Knight Middle in Miami.
Ladd joins an already stacked card headlined by undefeated BKB Heavyweight World Champion Gustavo “The Cuban Murderer” Trujillo, who defends his title towards Mark O’Neil, whereas Olympic gold medalist Yuriorkis Gamboa additionally makes his extremely anticipated naked knuckle debut towards Yesner “Cuajadita” Talavera.
One of the achieved feminine fight sports activities athletes to enter the BKB ranks, Ladd brings elite-level expertise from the very best levels of blended martial arts, having competed for premier organizations together with the UFC, Bellator MMA, PFL, BKFC, and Invicta FC. The Pioneer, California native rose as excessive as No. 2 within the UFC bantamweight rankings and has shared the cage with a number of the sport’s greatest names, together with present UFC champion Kayla Harrison and former UFC titleholders Raquel Pennington and Germaine de Randamie. Her relentless, forward-moving type has produced a number of post-fight bonuses, together with a “Battle of the Evening” award in 2019, and carries into her naked knuckle profession forward of her BKB debut.
BKB Naked Knuckle Boxing CEO, David Tetreault, mentioned: “Aspen has already proven combat followers what she’s about, and now she will get the possibility to do it inside our Trigon for the primary time. She’s fought the most effective on this planet throughout a number of organizations and by no means taken a backward step. Pairing her with Bianca Daimoni in Miami provides us one other can’t-miss combat on a card that’s already loaded from prime to backside. That is precisely the type of matchup that exhibits why the highest feminine expertise in fight sports activities needs to be a part of BKB.”
Aspen Ladd mentioned: “I can’t wait to make my debut within the Trigon and placed on a present for the followers in Miami. Bianca’s powerful and I do know she’s coming to combat, however that’s precisely what I signed up for. BKB provides me the possibility to compete with the whole lot on the road, nogloves, no hiding, and I’m prepared to indicate everybody what I can do.”
Standing reverse Ladd is Brazil’s Bianca “Diamante” Daimoni (1-1 BKB), a switch-stance welterweight who trains out of the storied Chute Boxe health club in Ibiraquera alongside Brazilian icon, Cris Cyborg. A embellished Muay Thai and MMA competitor with an 8-4 skilled MMA report and a former AFC featherweight champion in Brazil, Daimoni made her naked knuckle debut at BYB 36 in early 2025 earlier than returning to the Trigon at BKB50 – a milestone victory made all of the extra significant by her journey again to the game. Daimoni misplaced 5 years of her preventing prime after a near-fatal battle with COVID-19 in 2020, a interval that claimed her mom’s life and left her in a coma. Since her return, the Brazilian has rebuilt her profession on grit and willpower, and after a hard-fought determination loss to Jamie Driver at BKB 50 in January, she’ll look to spoil Ladd’s BKB debut in entrance of the Miami crowd.
Ladd joins an elite and quickly increasing roster of greater than 200 fighters from over 30 nations, underscoring BKB’s standing because the premier vacation spot for prime expertise in search of the final word problem in fight sports activities.
