Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) kicked off the July 4th holiday weekend at the sold-out Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia. Former BKFC interim lightweight champion Ben “The Bomber” Bonner knocked out former boxing and recent BKFC welterweight champion Austin “No Doubt” Trout to win the vacant BKFC world lightweight (155-pound) title in the main event. Bonner, who hails from Middlesbrough, England, dropped Trout twice before the fight was stopped 30 seconds into the second round. Trout, a former WBA 154-pound champion, was gunning to become a two-division BKFC champion after vacating his 165-pound title. Bonner is now 6-2 under the BKFC banner, while Trout, fighting out of Houston by way of New Mexico, is now 5-1. “I told you at the start of the week, on America’s most famous birthday, that the U.K. will come and conquer, and that’s what we did tonight,” Bonner said in his post-fight interview. “There’s not a man in this division who can take what I’ve got, mate. Line them up and I’ll take them out.”