{"id":1067603,"date":"2026-07-04T08:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1067603\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:07:15","slug":"austin-trout-does-rocky-themed-walkout-as-apollo-creed-gets-violently-knocked-out-at-bkfc-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1067603\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Trout does \u2018Rocky\u2019 themed walkout as Apollo Creed, gets violently knocked out at BKFC event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Austin Trout wanted to celebrate the Fourth of July in style, but he ended up on the wrong side of the fireworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Friday night, Trout faced off with Ben Bonner in the main event of BKFC Liberty Brawl at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia. Since moving to bare-knuckle in 2023, the former WBA boxing champion had put together a strong run in BKFC, stacking up five wins in a row, including winning the BKFC welterweight championship. But that run came to an end against Bonner, who brutally knocked him out in the second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Trout cut quite the scene walking to the BKFC ring, coming out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2tEobvw8-A8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in homage to Apollo Creed in Rocky IV<\/a>, wearing the star-spangled outfit and trunks, with an accompanying musical act performing James Brown\u2019s version of Living in America. <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Unfortunately for Trout, it appears he never actually watched Rocky IV, because while he didn\u2019t mean the same tragic end as Creed does in the film, Bonner did get the better of Trout for the fight, ultimately flooring him with a thudding right hand in the second round, finishing the fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It was a tough scene for the 40-year-old Trout, but a huge win for Bonner, who also claimed the BKFC lightweight title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Trout wanted to celebrate the Fourth of July in style, but he ended up on the wrong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1067604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4108],"tags":[60032,98240,1935,1501,79,16,15,127],"class_list":["post-1067603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-bkfc","tag-bkfc-news","tag-boxing","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-videos"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116860685121672275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1067604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}