Lee Selby beats Ollie Sentance by split decision in BKB 61 main event in London
The former IBF champion won his second bare-knuckle fight, and Matty Askin knocked out Marko Martinjak to take the BKB bridgerweight world title.
Lee Selby beat Ollie Sentance by split decision in the main event of BKB 61 at indigo at The O2 in London on Saturday night.
It was the second bare-knuckle win for Selby, the former IBF champion, who made his BKB debut earlier this year. Sentance had been unbeaten in bare-knuckle boxing going into the fight.
Selby said before the fight that Sentance is ranked in the BKB, by his reckoning fourth or fifth, and that a win over him would put him in title contention.
Matty Askin knocked out Marko Martinjak in round two to win the BKB bridgerweight world title on the same card, and Amado Vargas stopped Callum Nulty in round two of the co-main event.
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