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June 18, 2025 26 mins

Ike Villanueva battles Eric Olsen at BKB 42: Music City Brawl on June 21st.

Villanueva appeared on Bare Knuckle Bowker to cover several subjects, such as: -being a former heavyweight champion in the promotion, and moving down to bridgerweight here

-fighting an experienced bare-knuckle boxer here who is also known for his exploits on the King of the Streets circuit

-being involved with BKB on a more grassroots level and being an ambassador as well as a fighter for the bare-knuckle boxing brand 

-being training partners with BKFC's welterweight champion Austin Trout at Main Street Boxing, BKFC advertising a vacant welterweight title fight with Julian Lane vs Gorjan Slaveski, and what Villanueva knows about Trout's potential desires to drop down for more gold

-coming after bridgerweight champ Dan Podmore after a win here

-his only losses in the Mighty Trigon being to Gustavo Trujillo as well as Kamil Sokolowski, the Trujillo-Sokolowski title fight that was scrapped, and how he foresees that BKB heavyweight title fight playing out if it gets re-booked for later this year

-sparring recently with his star football player son at Jackson State who also seems to be navigating a future move to WWE

-the massive wave of relief that came from relatively recently getting custody of his daughter

-capturing the BKB heavyweight belt from DJ Linderman in the context of his thoughts on Linderman's recent win at BKB 41

-what the headline will read when all is said and done with his Eric Olsen fight at BKB 42 this weekend

-his predictions for some of the other big fights that are set to transpire at BKB 42 in Nashville

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