Event: BKB 48: Night of Four Kings
Date: November 22, 2025
Location: Charles F. Dodge Center, Pembroke Pines, Florida
Stakes: Featherweight Title Eliminator
Broadcast: VICE, TalkSPORT, Telemundo Deportes Ahora

On paper, this looks like a mismatch. Jorge Bargallo brings seven inches of reach and several pounds into the trigon against a smaller, more technical fighter. But bare-knuckle boxing has a way of exposing weaknesses that size can’t hide.

The Size Story

Jorge Bargallo

• Height: 5’8″
• Weight: 131 lbs (bantamweight)
• Reach: 69 inches
• Record: Loss to Jarod Grant in BKB title fight (May 2025)
• Background: Cape Coral, Florida by way of Nuevitas, Cuba

Ash Williams

• Height: 5’5″
• Weight: 124 lbs
• Background: Swansea, Wales
• Record: 2-1 in bare-knuckle (recent KO win over Joe Randall)
• Credentials: 2014 Commonwealth Games bronze medalist

Bargallo has seven pounds and three inches on Williams. In bare-knuckle boxing, where every inch of reach matters and weight behind punches dictates outcomes, that’s significant. But size only matters if you know what to do with it.

Jorge Bargallo: Flash Without Foundation

Bargallo fights like someone who learned boxing by watching highlight reels instead of studying fundamentals. He throws wild swings from distance with zero setups. No jabs to measure range. No feints to create openings. Just power shots launched into space, hoping something lands.

Watch his fight against Jarod Grant and the pattern becomes obvious. Bargallo punches at air most of the time. He telegraphs every combination, loads up on every shot, and leaves himself completely exposed while throwing. His signature duck and roll is predictable, the same movement every single time, which makes it easy to time.

The Grant fight was particularly telling. Mid-analysis, while watching tape, Grant knocked Bargallo down at the exact moment I said “completely exposed while throwing combinations.” That’s not coincidence. That’s what happens when your offense has no defense built into it.

There’s a lot of flash in Bargallo’s game. He moves, he throws with bad intentions, he looks busy. But the substance isn’t there. He’s sloppy in a way that gets punished at higher levels of competition.

Ash Williams: The Welsh Technician

Williams knows how to punch. Not in the “throws hard” sense, but in the technical boxer sense. He understands distance, timing, and how to create the small windows he needs to land clean.

His uppercuts are beautiful. When he gets even the smallest amount of space, he makes it count. That’s the mark of a real fighter. Not someone who needs perfect setups or wide-open shots, but someone who can capitalize on tiny opportunities.

Williams’ amateur pedigree shows. Bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games representing Wales. That’s legitimate competition against world-class talent. He’s fought real boxers who know how to move, defend, and counter. His recent first-round knockout of Joe Randall in Wales demonstrated he’s adapted that technical foundation to bare-knuckle boxing’s demands.

But there’s a problem.

The Vulnerability

Williams has been knocked down multiple times in his bare-knuckle career. Against Joe Randall, he went down twice in the opening minute before finding his range and finishing the fight. More concerning, he’s struggled against heavy flurries from fighters smaller than him. When someone his size or smaller starts throwing volume, Williams has shown defensive gaps.

Joe Randall isn’t even as big as Bargallo. And Bargallo, for all his technical flaws, can generate volume. When he starts throwing those wild combinations, they come in bunches. If Williams gets caught in one of those storms early, before he’s found his timing, this could get dicey.

The Fight Breakdown

This comes down to timing and composure. Bargallo will come out aggressive, throwing volume, trying to use his size and reach to overwhelm Williams early. He’ll throw wild swings, duck that predictable duck, and hope something lands.

Williams needs to weather that early storm. Let Bargallo throw himself into mistakes. Wait for the openings that sloppy combinations create. Then capitalize when Bargallo leaves himself exposed (which he will, repeatedly).

The key moment will be when Bargallo throws one of his no-setup power shots and Williams counters with that overhand right. Bargallo’s predictable duck and roll means his head movement follows the same path every time. Time it once, and you’ll time it again.

Williams is the better fighter. Technically superior, more experienced at elite levels, better ring IQ. But the size difference is real. Seven pounds and three inches matter when the bigger man can punch. And Bargallo’s volume, even if sloppy, creates danger simply through repetition.

The Stakes

This is a featherweight title eliminator. Harold McQueen was stripped of the BKB Featherweight Championship after failing to show for weigh-ins at BKB 46. The winner of this fight will face Yampier Ramirez for the vacant title.

For Bargallo, this is redemption. He lost his shot at Jarod Grant’s lightweight title in May. Another loss puts him back at square one.

For Williams, this is his U.S. debut and his chance to fight for a world championship. At 33 years old, having turned to bare-knuckle after limited opportunities in traditional boxing, this might be his best shot at a title.

The Prediction

Ash Williams by overhand right.

Bargallo will have his moments. The reach advantage is real. The weight advantage matters. He’ll land some shots, create some scrambles, make this competitive. But technical boxing always finds a way.

Williams waits for Bargallo to overextend on one of those wild combinations. He slips the initial barrage, times that predictable duck, and lands the overhand right clean. Bargallo goes down, and the referee waves it off.

The better boxer wins. Size matters, but technique matters more.

Williams moves on to face Ramirez for the vacant BKB Featherweight Championship. Bargallo heads back to the drawing board, still searching for the fundamentals that would make his physical tools dangerous instead of just flashy.

Pick: Ash Williams

When a technically sound fighter with legitimate credentials faces a sloppy volume puncher, bet on the technician. Every time.

Williams survives the early flurry (and he will get tested early), finds his timing, and finishes this before the championship rounds. Bargallo’s predictable offense and complete defensive exposure when throwing combinations will be his undoing.

The Welsh warrior makes his U.S. debut count, punching his ticket to a featherweight title shot.

BKB 48: Night of Four Kings airs live November 22, 2025, from Pembroke Pines, Florida on VICE, TalkSPORT, and Telemundo Deportes Ahora.Share