Cuba’s Alberto Blas will defend the BKB tremendous featherweight title in opposition to former featherweight champion Brandon Birr at BKB 58 in Miami on August 29. The matchup offers Blas an opportunity to increase an 8-0 BKB run by which each victory has ended by KO or TKO.
BKB has confirmed Alberto “El Indio” Blas vs. Brandon “Slaughterhouse” Birr for its August 29 card in Miami, with Blas’ tremendous featherweight belt on the road. The bout is listed because the third battle on the BKB 58 lineup, behind heavyweight headliners Gustavo Trujillo and Mark O’Neil and Yuriorkis Gamboa’s bare-knuckle debut in opposition to Frank “The Butcher” Talavera.
Undefeated Alberto Blas Set for Brandon Birr Title Struggle at BKB 58
Blas enters because the reigning champion and the unbeaten man within the matchup. The Cuban-born Miami fighter owns an 8-0 BKB file, with all eight wins coming inside the gap. Seven of these finishes have arrived within the opening spherical, leaving no use for the scorecards throughout his run by the promotion. His lone BKB win to achieve Spherical 3 got here in opposition to former champ Harold McQueen, ending by way of TKO.
The 30-year-old southpaw fights out of Miami after rising up in Matanzas, Cuba. He’s listed at 5-foot-8 and has labored with Manny del Rio, Eduardo Concepcion, Vil Vergara and Eric Castaño. His BKB résumé consists of stoppages of McQueen, Ruel Panales, Ryan Reber, Keith Richardson, Frank Alvarez, Joao Guerra, Roberto Armas and Jeremiah Potts.
Blas grew to become the inaugural BKB tremendous featherweight champion on January 31 at BKB 50: Evolution in Miami. He was initially resulting from meet Birr for the vacant belt, however Birr withdrew due to harm. Harold McQueen stepped in, and Blas stopped him to assert the title.
This August battle places the unique title pairing again collectively, besides there may be now a champion to chase. Birr is a former titleholder as he beforehand held the BKB/BYB featherweight championship. The Cleveland fighter beat McQueen by sixth-round disqualification to win the inaugural featherweight title in August 2023, then misplaced the belt to McQueen by second-round TKO of their February 2024 rematch.
For Blas, it is a first championship protection and one other alternative to maintain his good ending streak intact. His file says opponents are often going through an early night time, although Birr brings extra championship expertise than most fighters Blas has met in BKB.
For Birr, the Miami date is a route again to a belt. He had a title battle with Blas taken away by harm in January, and now will get the prospect to take the tremendous featherweight championship from the person who changed him within the title image. The unhealthy blood could not want a lot assist right here: the belt that might have been Birr’s is now round Blas’ waist.
