Gustavo Trujillo kept his title and lost the streak that made him famous
Gustavo Trujillo had won all eight of his bare-knuckle fights by first-round knockout. On Saturday in Miami he made it nine wins, and needed until 2:59 of the second round to do it. The man who took him there had accepted the fight at almost no notice, and was supposed to be commentating.
- Fight Hub
- 30 August 2026
Key takeaways
- Gustavo Trujillo stopped Mick Terrill with a body punch at 2:59 of round two to defend the BKB heavyweight title at BKB 58 in Miami.
- It is the first of his nine bare-knuckle wins that did not end in the first round. Terrill had replaced Mark O'Neill, who withdrew over visa issues, and was booked to work the event as a commentator.
- Tyson Fury watched from ringside and met BKB chief executive David Tetreault, who has confirmed talks with Fury's manager but no signed deal.
Gustavo Trujillo needed a second round for the first time
Eight fights, eight first rounds, then this
The number that made Trujillo’s name was not the wins, it was where they ended. Eight bare-knuckle fights, eight knockouts, none of them past the opening round. Bare-knuckle rewards that profile more than any other combat sport, because the rounds are short and the cuts arrive early.
Against Terrill the first round came and went. The finish arrived at 2:59 of the second, from a punch to the body rather than the head, and it folded Terrill where he stood. Trujillo is now 9-0 without gloves, and 21-0 across bare-knuckle and boxing combined.
Why the extra round matters
A champion winning in the second instead of the first is not a decline. But it is the first honest data point anyone has on him. Every previous opponent was gone before there was anything to measure: no adjustment, no second wind, no evidence of what he does when the first plan does not work.
Terrill gave the sport that evidence, and lost anyway. That is worth more to Trujillo’s file than another nine-second highlight.
The challenger was booked to work the show, not fight on it
A commentator with a mouthpiece
Mick Terrill, “The Butcher of Shields”, was not on the card. Mark O’Neill was, and O’Neill withdrew over visa problems. Terrill was in Miami to work the event from ringside and put himself forward instead.
How much notice he actually had depends on who you ask, and the sources do not agree: BKB described it as a matter of days, Forbes reported that he took it on twelve hours. Either version is an unreasonable way to challenge for a heavyweight title.
He was not a tourist
Terrill arrived 11-2 in bare-knuckle, off a first-round stoppage of Florian De La Motte in the BKB 57 main event in London on July 25. BKB counts all eleven of his wins as knockouts.
So the man who finally dragged Trujillo past round one was a former multi-promotion champion who had barely unpacked. Read that next to the odds and the notice, and the second round stops looking like a slip.
I never look for the knockout, and the knockout comes when it's time.
A card that barely used the judges, and Tyson Fury in the front row
Twelve bouts, two decisions
BKB 58 at the James L. Knight Center produced finishes almost everywhere. Alberto Blas kept his super featherweight title by knocking out Brandon Birr at 1:57 of the first. Yunieski Gonzalez took the vacant cruiserweight belt with a knockout at 1:19 of the first. Robert Duran Jr. beat Ryan Spivey by injury TKO at 1:49 of the first. Keegan Vandermeer needed nine seconds.
Only two bouts reached the cards, and both were notable. Yuriorkis Gamboa, an Olympic gold medallist, won his bare-knuckle debut 50-44 across the board against Yesner Talavera, in a fight that also sent the referee tumbling. And Aspen Ladd lost her own bare-knuckle debut to Bianca Daimoni by unanimous decision, 49-46, 49-46, 48-47.
Fury is being courted, and he is listening
Tyson Fury watched from ringside and met BKB chief executive David Tetreault. That is not nothing: Tetreault has publicly confirmed talks with Fury’s manager Spencer Brown, and has called a bare-knuckle fight between Fury and Oleksandr Usyk his dream matchup.
What has not happened is any of the part that counts. Nothing is signed, no date exists, and neither heavyweight has agreed to fight without gloves. A promoter naming a dream fight is marketing until a contract says otherwise, and it is worth reporting as exactly that.
What to watch next
Trujillo has said he wants a gloved boxing match against someone ranked in the WBC or WBO top ten. He now has the record to ask, and for the first time a performance that shows what happens when he does not get the early finish.
Follow the division with real numbers
Gustavo Trujillo’s full record across both sports, Mick Terrill’s bare-knuckle history and the rest of the BKB 58 results are in the FightHub app. Download it to track where bare-knuckle’s heavyweight picture goes next.
