B-Bad introduce BKB belt
Andy Topliff is taking BKB to the next level once again. He has introduced the new belt on the dawn of BKB going mainstream. We spoke to Andy and he gave us this info on the belt.
24 kt on nickle alloy its on leather. The last time the belt was around, it was a fighter called George Cardew Joynes who was uncle to the king of the Gypsy's, Big Just who was predecessor to Bartley Gorman, he fort a Jewish fighter called Mani Boswell in East London in 1890, the original belt had a solid gold rams head on a thick leather lifting belt with ruby eyes . it was stolen some time later and then after that all bkb fighters fort for the famous golden fists which became nick named the golden gloves and for nearly 40 years it changed hands many times and Bartley Gorman had them. in turn they was lost in a field in Wisbeach Cambridgshire and was never found . Then since the seventy's there has never been any belts, BKB became very underground and mostly in the traveller community or Liverpool or the East End with it in the end just being grudge fights to solve disputes on traveller sites , in the ninety's tho one of the Sultans of Brunei's sons, set up an underground Bkb club for the rich and famous to make bets on fighters from around the world, which to only them in the know , was known as the canary wharf click, although it really is more like val tudo, bareknuckle or no holds barred and anything goes , it has fighters from round the Globe who fight for large amounts of cash , then a small group called B-BAD was sick of listening to people promising that they would do events and get it sanctioned, so b-bad started doing b-bad events and created a league and a belt to fight for.
By Andy Topliff
Thanks Andy what a great piece of history that you are creating for BKB.
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