News UPDATE: Justin Thornton who was brutally KO'd at BKFC 20 last August has passed away

[Orochimaru 大蛇丸]

I don’t know anything about either guy, but I watched it and immediately knew dude would lose

Im tired of all these fight promotions making bullshit mismatches, I get it to a degree, but those two should not have been in the ring together

 

[Dude Incredible]

Heart is out to this guy. Please have the best recovery possible.

 

[WildShrimper]

Wow that was terrible, shame on the matchmakers and promoters

 

[bigmacbub]

Not even being a dick but it's as if Thornton had never trained a day in his life. No guard or defense and just flailing and plodding forward. I desperately hope this guy recovers. I watched million dollar baby last night too.....

 

[Substance Abuse]

Prognosis isn't likely reassuring, but neuro isn't my specialty

That said, let's hope for a miraculous recovery, friend.

 

[DebtCollectorMMA]

BKF should be scrapped

 

[mikesparrow]

I can't take it anymore !!

Im switching to Ballerina Championships

Not time to make jokes, but you took quite an interesting field. Balerinas are extremely washed up by the age of 35. Most of them can barely walk. Many years ago I have seen a documentary about a top, world class balerina and her last performance. They also talked to many doctors who takes care of them. Their joints are badly damaged and spent their whole life on pain killers..

 

[CatchnShoot]

Watching it live I though he may have broken his spine. The KO was nasty, Cleckler nailed him cleanly, but it was the landing that did the major damage. He like self-spiked.

The ironic thing is that the promoter and the announcers (Lytle and Wheelock I think) were going back and forth earlier in the broadcast about how safe BKFC was.... "safer then boxing, safer then mma... well, at least AS SAFE"

Do NOT poke the bear you dumb cunts.

I hope he's OK, but it doesn't look great for him.

 

[ClosetVitorFan]

The head spike on the ground does not look good at all. How much give does that BKF ring have? It needs to have give or ppl will get seriously fucked up.

 

[Pierced7681]

TBF, it does seem pure bad luck that BKFC has had a few life threatening injuries sustained to fighters since they started it, only a few years ago.

PRIDE had no serious injuries reported of their fighters, and they had 145'ers fighting HW's in freak show fights. Plus, soccer kicks and stomps, no one was seriously injured.

But the matchmakers and owner of BKFC should not be pitting WW's on 5 fight losing streaks against a 240 pound savage. If this is to be their undoing, then so be it, they deserve it for putting on such a mismatch.

Ninja Rua had a dangerous brain injury after Sergei fight in Pride. Yatsu was hospitalized for weeks after Goodridge fight.

 

[CatchnShoot]

If Justin does not make a full recovery this will absolutely be the end of Bare Knuckle FC in the United States.

As it should be since the UFC & Bellator have managed to go 18 plus years thankfully without a fighter sustaining an injury that left them paralyzed.

I hope Bare Knuckle has adequate catastrophic injury insurance because they are going to be bankrupted (and rightfully so) if this man was paralyzed during a "bare knuckle boxing match".

BK is fine, mismatches, aren't wherever they take place.

It's not like Bellator/UFC are "Safe" alternatives.
Bisping lost an eye, Igor Zinoviev was fucked for life after Shamrock slam KO'd him.
Cyborg Santos had his skull caved in, James Te Huna ended up with a brain bleed after fighting an ex Hockey Goon..... it is only by pure luck that they haven't produced a death in the cage. Luck, and nothing more.

 

[TCE]

Ninja Rua had a dangerous brain injury after Sergei fight in Pride. Yatsu was hospitalized for weeks after Goodridge fight.

Have you any sources to prove these please?

Ninja also fought less than a year a later, and carried on his MMA career for many years after.

 

[ironfist05]

I genuinely wish the worst on the guys promoting BKFC. I hope Thornton is ok.

 

[abject]

I thought I would post this here as the BKFC events get play by play in the heavies, but please mods, feel free to move it.

So I hadn't heard any updates from the event management myself, and have been doing a little digging and found this Reddit post.



According to this post, once he was knocked out and faceplanted the canvas, he didn't move a muscle at all, horrifying the audience there.

A post from a user earlier posted this:



Here is the Podcast, where she talks about it around the 15 minute mark.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live...0T-GK1C&v=205651178246735&ref=watch_permalink

Spoiler: Here is the knockout

Please pray for Justin Thornton.

I hope he makes a full recovery, and my thoughts are with him, his friends and family at this tragic time.

I hope he recovers fully and he has my best wishes. But if you are not a great fighter and gonna plod forward, you gonna get your clock ticked.

 

[Pierced7681]

Have you any sources to prove these please?

Ninja also fought less than a year a later, and carried on his MMA career for many years after.

You can google both, lots of info online

 

[TCE]

You can google both, lots of info online

Already did and nothing came up.

No legitimate sources. No fighter, family member, coach talking about either cases. No proper article posted.

I think you're making this up.

 

[HHJ]

Reyes is lucky he didnt get more neck damage the way he fell against Jiri...that was really scary

 

[HHJ]

Shame on the promoter as well. 30lbs smaller and on a 5 fight losing streak and they give him a fighter with a combined fight record of 15-1

It was a clear cut squash match. There's no way a guy with a 6-18 record who recent fought at 175lb catchweight should be fighting 240lb 15-1 guy

They purposely sent that guy out there to get knocked out brutally

I was watching Igor Vovchanchyn vs Daijiro Matsui just now. Igor looked twice his size,and was beating his brains in for 5 minutes. Matsui had no chance at all. These kinds of fights shouldnt happen anymore.

 

[DoopidyDawesome]

Damn horrible matchmaking and an even worse outcome. Prayers for the dude and his family.

 

[UFCIsNOTRigged]

Waivers...


Look into it

Liability waivers are frequently and increasingly thrown out in court.

Mississipi, where the event was held, from just a cursory search I can see frequently throws out "waivers" that indemnify against injuries that a reasonable person could not have believed they would sustain.

Sustaining paralysis, which I hope is not the outcome here, in a bare-knuckle boxing match is not something a reasonable person could have expected.

These specific promoters also promotes the sport as safer than both boxing and MMA, yet none of the major MMA promotions have seen an in-ring jury result in paralysis. Paralysis is even more uncommon in boxing.

I hope you aren't one of these morons droning on about fighter pay, while simaltaneously defending Bare Knuckle against a fighter who may be paralyzed as a result of their negligence.