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Florida commission (yes, Florida) rejects Bare Knuckle FC’s booking of Melvin Guillard fight

It feels like it was just a few months ago that Florida’s commission gave the okay for Triller’s exhibitions disguised as professional boxing matches.

Well Florida is putting its foot down when it comes to Bare Knuckle FC’s upcoming Knucklemania 2 event.

BKFC indefensibly booked former UFC fighter Melvin Guillard for this show, even though he’s 0-4 with the promotion and has otherwise suffered a slew of knockout losses over the years in MMA and a couple more in bare knuckle. Well guess what? His fight with Ulysses Diaz isn’t happening anymore. Florida is not interested in overseeing another potentially bad Guillard fight.