Overview
- BKB announced Tuesday that Aspen Ladd has signed with the promotion and will make her Trigon debut against Bianca Daimoni on Aug. 29 at the James L. Knight Center in Miami.
- Ladd is a former UFC and PFL contender with a 12-5 professional MMA record who also scored a first-round knockout in her lone BKFC bare-knuckle fight last November.
- Bianca Daimoni comes in as a BKB veteran who debuted at BYB 36, challenged for a BKB welterweight title at BKB 50 and rebuilt her career after a severe 2020 COVID-19 hospitalization and coma.
- The Ladd–Daimoni bout is on a stacked BKB 58 card that features heavyweight champion Gustavo Trujillo defending his title against Mark O'Neil and Olympic gold medalist Yuriorkis Gamboa making his bare-knuckle debut.
- The signing underscores a broader crossover trend as bare-knuckle promotions recruit recognizable fighters to grow audiences and test how elite MMA striking translates inside BKB’s glove-free Trigon, a development that could raise the women’s division profile and change future matchmaking.