Julian Fernandez is unbeaten in the world of bare-knuckle boxing and has noticed key differences between his efforts in BKFC and his current BKB path. The former Mexican national boxing champion has made waves in gloveless combat as BKB’s undefeated titleholder in the wake of debuting in the sport initially with BKFC.
Obviously the competitive spaces are different, but when asked for other noticeably divergent aspects there were to competing for the two powerhouse bare knuckle boxing companies, Fernandez said [via Bare Knuckle Bowker] (via interpreter work from BKB’s Mel Valenzuela),
“When you’re fighting for BKB, when you’re going in there, you’re going to fight. You’re going to exchange, you’re in the middle. In BKFC, the ring is bigger. There’s more opportunity to run around and kind of dodge some of the fighting… He’s saying it’s a big challenge to fight at BKB, the three-minute rounds.”
“He’s saying that you must master the angles. He said that it can be to your advantage or if you don’t know how to manage those angles, it can be to your detriment. So managing the angles, learning how to work with them, make them work for you, and the three-minute rounds make BKB more challenging and rewarding at the same time.”
The BKB champ has several plans in his back pocket for a clash with a multi-division BKB champ on Saturday’s card in Tijuana
Touching on the dynamics of collecting so much intel from Bare Knuckle Boxing’s Mighty Trigon despite having a ledger loaded with quick first-round finishes, Fernandez stated [via Bare Knuckle Bowker] (via interpreter work from Mel Valenzuela),
“By the grace of God, he’s been able to finish his fights early but that he always prepares for six rounds for every fight. He’s ready to go the distance and part of that is managing the angles. He’s always got a plan A, plan B, and plan C, should they be needed. But that to this point, it’s a testament to his preparation, the fact that he’s not gone further than the first round.”
When asked if the contender for his super cruiserweight title this weekend at BKB 59, Dan Podmore, can become the first man to encroach into the second stanza with him, Fernandez quipped [via Bare Knuckle Bowker] (via interpreter work from Mel Valenzuela),
“He doesn’t know how well [Dan] Podmore is prepared for this and he sounds like he doesn’t care. He knows that he’s prepared. He prepares hard to finish the fight in the first round, but he can go six rounds if he has to. He doesn’t like to give any prognostications, right? [laughs] He doesn’t want to guess. All he knows is that he’s prepared he comes out strong, goes for the knockout early, but is prepared to go six rounds.”
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