BKFC 95 card, start times and how to watch Herring vs Dodson

BKFC 95 puts 10 bare-knuckle boxing bouts on at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, October 17, and the one title fight on the card is champion against champion. Bantamweight champion Jamel Herring makes the first defense of the belt he won in May, and his challenger is John Dodson, who holds BKFC's flyweight title and is moving up a division to take a second one.

Jamel Herring is 2-0 in BKFC, with both wins by unanimous decision over five two-minute rounds: Matthew Guyman in his debut at BKFC 86 Mohegan Sun in January, then Michael Larrimore for the bantamweight title at BKFC 89 Palm Desert on May 22. He arrived from a professional boxing career of 24 recorded bouts, which in our records includes wins over Masayuki Ito and Carl Frampton and a 10th-round stoppage loss to Shakur Stevenson.

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John Dodson is 4-0-1 in BKFC and 24-15 in MMA. He won the inaugural BKFC flyweight title with a first-round knockout of Joshua Ridge in August 2023 and kept it with a unanimous draw against Dagoberto Aguero in March 2024. Long before that, he fought Demetrious Johnson twice for the UFC flyweight title, in January 2013 and September 2015, and lost both on the scorecards. He is 42 now and has not fought since a decision loss to Takaki Soya in RIZIN in May 2025.

The co-main event has a direct line to the headliner. Jimmie Rivera (3-2-1 in BKFC, 23-5 in MMA) beat Dodson by unanimous decision at UFC 228 in September 2018, and he now meets Brandon Meyer (3-4) at welterweight, after fighting at featherweight and lightweight in BKFC. Rivera's last fight was in this same building, a third-round TKO of Timmy Mason at BKFC 82 Newark in October 2025. Meyer has lost his last two, both inside the distance.

Start times

• Prelims: 8:00 p.m. ET on Saturday (5:00 p.m. PT, 1:00 a.m. BST on Sunday)
• Main card: 9:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. PT, 2:00 a.m. BST on Sunday)

BKFC now lists three bouts as prelims and seven on the main card. Every bout is scheduled for five two-minute rounds. With six main-card fights ahead of it, the main event will start late in the evening on the East Coast, and the event page keeps a running estimate.

The full card

Main card (9:00 p.m. ET)

• Jamel Herring vs John Dodson, bantamweight title
• Jimmie Rivera vs Brandon Meyer, welterweight
• Tony Soto vs Tony Pike, lightweight
• Santo Curatolo vs Anthony Yost, bantamweight
• Dalvin Blair vs Paris Boyd, lightweight
• Noah Getahoun vs Dustin Bailey, middleweight
• Phil Caracappa vs Cole Cameron, featherweight

Prelims (8:00 p.m. ET)

• Mike Medrano vs Rob Emerson, welterweight
• Dylan Pitt vs Nicholas Saragosa, lightweight
• Gabrielle Roman vs Brooke Evans, women's flyweight

The card is still moving. On October 14 two lightweight bouts came off: Irakli Ghvinjilia vs Jonathan Quiroz and Jeff Lentz vs Eduardo Peralta, both of which had only been added on October 11. Before that, Justin Clarke vs Dominick Carey came off on October 7, the heavyweight bout between Gzim Selmani and Brad Lee came off on October 11, and Noah Getahoun vs Dustin Bailey was added on October 10. Gabrielle Roman, No. 5 on BKFC's official women's flyweight rankings, faces the unbeaten Brooke Evans (1-0).

How to watch

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The whole card streams worldwide on DAZN and on BKFC+, the promotion's own subscription platform, and in the United States BKFC is also carried by Fubo Sports. The same feed serves every market, so there is no country-by-country rights map to work through, and no pay-per-view on top of the subscription. An 8 p.m. ET bell on a Saturday suits North American viewers; in the UK it starts at 1 a.m. on Sunday. Our full provider grid is at how to watch BKFC 95 Newark.

Newark is now BKFC's only card that Saturday. The BKFC Belgrade card, headlined by a heavyweight title fight between Agi Faulkner and Dilan Prasovic and set for earlier the same day in Serbia, has been postponed, and no new date has been set.

Make your picks for all 10 bouts at the pick'em, and live results land on the event page as the fights finish.