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BKB 49 – Dance of the Dragons Wales 5 december 2025


Jack Marshman’s retirement fight

Jack Marshman retirement bare knuckle fight in front of his home crowd at BKB 49
Jack Marshman doing what he loves –

Bare Knuckle Boxing closes out a historic 2025 when it returns to the Land of the Red Dragon, Friday, 5 December, for BKB 49 at the Vale Arena in Cardiff. In the main event, Wales’ own undefeated Liam Rees defends his Super Lightweight title against one of the hottest fighters in BKB, #1 contender Rolando Dy.

In the co-main event, someone’s 0 has to go when undefeated Light Heavyweights Keiron Harding and David Winiarski meet in the Trigon.

Plus, two of BKB’s top rising stars face off when Simey Doherty takes on Kallum Skhane.

Also, this will be Jack ‘The Hammer’ Marshman’s retirement fight in front of his home crowd. Marshman promises to put on one hell of a great fight for his fans and retire with the all-important win. Standing in his way is none other than Paul Hilz, who knows only one way: coming forward. This has all the hallmarks of ‘fight of the year’ with both men knowing the only way is forward, and the only way out is to be knocked out.

Full fight card

Liam Rees vs. Rolando DY

Keiron Harding vs. David Winiarski

Keiron Harding vs. David Winiarski

Simey Doherty vs. Kallum Skhane

Lucas Browne vs. Aaron Ashton

Paul Hilz vs. Jack Marshman

Troy Palmer vs. Dorian Darch

Dan Matthews vs. Steven Rouke

Robert Koky vs. Tom Pratt

Geraint Goodridge vs. Ruairi McCarthy

Joe Randall vs. Iestyn Edwards

Shaun Rafferty vs.Ethan George

If you missed our last interview with Jack Marshman before his last fight against Daniel Lerwell, where Bare Knuckle Mobb Rob and I interview Jack before his fight against Daniel Lerwell, you can watch it here.

https://youtu.be/AfszO50ICQQ?si=3Y1-G_Hpf61KOOdE

THE HISTORY OF BARE KNUCKLE BOXING

Originating

Originating in South Florida with backyard legend Dada 5000, whose backyard fights gained worldwide popularity online, BKB was founded to harness the excitementbare-knuckleckle fighting into a more structured product for a wider, more mainstream audience. Since 2015, BYB has worked diligently to grow the reach of bare knuckle on both a domestic and international level, hosting events in Wyoming, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, England, Wales and Dubai, and is continuing to work with athletic commissions throughout the United States and globally to expand the fanbase growing sport of bare knuckle fighting.

In the past two years, BKB (originally BYB) has purchased the UK-based BKB, world’sld’s oldest professional bare knuckle boxing company, and in doing so merged the organizations to create the largest bare knuckle boxing company in the world in terms of roster, library and distribution; ushered in ethical and legalized gambling to the sport;  acquired the rights to the historic and prestigious Police Gazette Diamond Belt which now serves as the Bare Knuckle Boxing World Championship; and brought bare knuckle boxing to lineal television on both sides of the Atlantic, including the recent deal with VICE TV and in the UK with TalkSport. 

Five Rounds with EMMA is BACK!


We had taken 18 months out of the writing aspect of the sport we cover, MMA. We have branched out into some new opportunities, and we still come together to say NOW IS THE TIME TO GO BACK TO WRITING IN AND ABOUT MMA!

After taking 18 months off the writing aspect of MMA, we have stayed passionate about MMA – well, I started this site in 2012 about MMA and the fighters that were in the sport but as yet not in the UFC, so I have a history of MMA fighters before some would say made it!

I have a new contributing writer on board who is fantastic and amazing with his words, hailing from America we have Terrell Sylvester who has done previous work with Combat Sports UK (Anteriorwright1 on FB) check him out there then make sure to come back to Five Rounds with Emma. As we will be full of content before you can say ‘where the fu*k did she come from and who the fu@k is she’.

That statement is true, though I started writing for other outlets to get my foot in the door, so to speak. After two years, my good friend and the one who believed in me from the start and to this day onwards, Jonathan Millard, you may know him as ‘The voice of the Vale’ since he is a ring announcer for boxing & some MMA shows, if it were not for him, I don’t know what i’d be doing by now. He encouraged me to carry on in the sport even though those early days (5 years worth) were when I had abuse aimed at me via social media platforms, this was by men in other outlets in the industry. Then one male person took it upon himself to write a whole status about me on FB ( he didn’t have the nerve to tag me -pussy), and the amount of abuse from grown men left under that status was appalling and soul-destroying. It wasn’t until my good friend and fighter, who I have watched his career from the start, called me up to say what was going on – in the end, it came down to ME being in a predominantly male space and making more waves than him – jealousy!!! For 5 years, I endured abuse like this daily.

Move on to 2020 that person was not around in fact he was in jail for domestic abuse for the second time so no wonder he thought he could bully me!!

As COVID hit, the whole world had to make changes, and those changes forced us on Five Rounds with Emma to re-evaluate how we could contribute to the MMA scene. TIKTOK found the answer when we were ordered to stay at home, so video content grew massively, and so did Zoom calls.

Today, we will incorporate our writing with videos (if needed) on our YouTube channel, Five Rounds with Emma. Also, we will embed the code in the writing here, so you don’t have to search the Internet for the specific content we have shown.

I thank all my loyal fans who have stayed with me from the beginning and through all the times to now. The sport needs fans, and I love engaging with each and every one of you on social media. You can find me on ‘X’ (although I don’t really post there any more), Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and TIKTOK, plus don’t forget this website for news, results, press releases, and exclusive interviews.

THANK YOU

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