Lee Selby and Ollie Sentance have cleared the scales. Now comes the part where they settle things without gloves. Both fighters made weight on Friday ahead of their BKB 61 super lightweight main event at indigo at The O2 in London on Saturday, November 14. Selby weighed 139.0 pounds, with Sentance at 139.4.
The former IBF featherweight champion is chasing his second bare-knuckle win, but Sentance arrives unbeaten and with a chance to turn a victory over an established boxing name into his own breakthrough. Their fight headlines a 10-bout show that also features Amado Fernando Vargas and a bridgerweight world title defence from Marko Martinjak.
Selby enters at 1-0 after stopping Antonio Rizzo in the second round at BKB 55 in Cardiff on June 27. That debut was no quiet introduction: Rizzo put him under pressure early before Selby answered with knockdowns and the finish. Sentance, meanwhile, has stopped both of his bare-knuckle opponents.
BKB 61 Weigh-In Results
He finished Nico Earwaker in the fourth round before beating Corey Healey in the second on the same Cardiff card as Selby. That makes Saturday a meeting between a former gloved world champion and an opponent who has already found his finishing touch in this sport.
There is a potential title opportunity in the background, although nothing has been signed. Selby has said beating Sentance could move him into contention for champion Estevan Partida, while Sentance has his sights on that belt too. First, one has to get through the other.
Vargas weighed 130.5 pounds for his super featherweight co-main event against Callum Nulty, who registered 130.6. The son of former world champion Fernando Vargas returns to the venue where he knocked out James Springer on his bare-knuckle debut in July.
Nulty is seeking his first BKB win after losing his promotional debut to Ash Williams. Martinjak’s BKB bridgerweight world championship defence is also official. The champion weighed 220.6 pounds, while former British cruiserweight boxing champion Matty Askin came in at 224.2, giving the challenger a 3.6-pound weight advantage.
The remaining main-card bouts have Ash Devenport and Kallum Skhane both at 147.6 pounds; Aaron McCallum at 147.8 against Simey Doherty at 146.6; Dan Gittens at 146.8 against Dan Cawse at 143.8; and Luke Smudger Smith at 153.8 against Paul O’Sullivan at 154.2.
Three TikTok-exclusive bouts complete the lineup: Carl Hobley (222.6) against Claas Lilie (224.4), Ashley Lloyd (178.6) against Marcus Pond (174.4), and Kornelijus Sabaliauskas (183.6) against Luke Fleming (184.2). All weights are in pounds.
