Bas Rutten, who was expected to serve as president of failed promotion World Bare Knuckle Fighting Federation (WBKFF), believes current Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) matchmaker Paul Tyler was responsible for WBKFF’s demise. WBKFF famously folded and did not pay the contracted fighters.
“I got contacted about two months before the event, for the originally planned event, which was sooner than Nov. 9,” Rutten tells Pull No Punches podcast hosts Kajan Johnson and Shakiel Mahjouri of his initial involvement with WBKFF. “I started realizing the matchmaker, Paul Tyler, was a great matchmaker but had no clue what he was doing.