Darren Till beat Yoel Romero by unanimous decision in the BKFC 94 main event at the AO Arena in Manchester on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The card aired on DAZN pay-per-view, with the main card starting at 2:00 PM ET, 7:00 PM locally in Manchester.
Twelve bouts were contested, three of them for titles. Till, 33, improved to 2-0 in bare knuckle; Romero, 49, an Olympic freestyle wrestling silver medalist, fell to 1-1 in the promotion.
BKFC 94 Start Time
| Time Zone | Start Time |
|---|---|
| Eastern (ET) | 2:00 PM |
| Central (CT) | 1:00 PM |
| Mountain (MT) | 12:00 PM |
| Pacific (PT) | 11:00 AM |
| UK / Manchester (BST) | 7:00 PM |
Manchester runs on British Summer Time in September, so the card lands in the middle of the afternoon in the United States rather than late at night.
How to Watch BKFC 94 Live
The BKFC 94 main card is a DAZN pay-per-view in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship sells its UK events through DAZN rather than its own app, so a DAZN purchase is the route to the main card.
Three undercard bouts are listed separately as free fights. The promotion has put its Manchester prelims out free in the past, on its own YouTube channel and on TrillerTV, so the opening bouts are worth checking for before the pay-per-view window opens.
Tickets for the AO Arena are sold through Ticketmaster UK. The promotion’s last numbered card, BKFC 92 at Fenway Park, ran on the same DAZN structure in August.
Darren Till vs. Yoel Romero
Till, 33, fought 10 times in the UFC and finished 18-5 in mixed martial arts before moving across to bare knuckle. He has three professional boxing wins and knocked out Aaron Chalmers in his BKFC debut in May. The Liverpudlian asked for this fight seven years ago, when both men were still under UFC contract.
Romero, 49, is 17-7 across the UFC and Bellator with 14 knockouts, and took silver in freestyle wrestling at the 2000 Olympics. He is also 1-0 in BKFC, and 16 years older than Till, the biggest age gap on the card.
BKFC lists the bout at cruiserweight on its own event page, though several outlets reported it as a light heavyweight fight and others as a 180-pound catchweight when it was announced.
Till won by unanimous decision, 49-46 on all three scorecards. He controlled the fight behind a southpaw jab and started landing uppercuts and left hands from the second round on. Romero opened a cut over Till’s eye in the third and had his moments late, but never took a round on any of the cards. Post fight, Till called out Tommy Fury and Mike Perry as the fights he wants next in BKFC.
DARREN TILL JUST WENT 5 ROUNDS WITH YOEL ROMERO IN BARE KNUCKLE – AND WALKED AWAY WITH THE UNANIMOUS WIN!
— Bare Knuckle FC (@bareknucklefc) September 26, 2026
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What Are the Odds for Darren Till vs. Yoel Romero?
Till opened as the betting favorite, and the number has only grown since. Early lines had him around -175 to Romero’s +135; the latest odds tracked by Oddschecker have Till out to roughly -300, with Romero drifting toward +225.
The exact price depends on the book and the day, but every line has Till as the clear favorite. The MMA odds calculator converts prices like these into a payout.
Official betting odds: Darren Till (-315) vs Yoel Romero (+220)
That 16 year age gap is exactly what the odds are pricing in, though even the people picking Till are not dismissing Romero’s conditioning. “He’s fighting and training like he’s in his mid-30s,” BKFC analyst Dan Podmore said of the 49-year-old ahead of the card. “He’s the old man that defies all the odds, and he’s still doing things that old men shouldn’t be doing.”
The favorite held up: Till closed at -315 to Romero’s +220 and won every round on all three scorecards.
David Mundell vs. Jack Cullen
The co-main is for the BKFC World Middleweight Title. Mundell is 10-2 in bare knuckle, the most experienced fighter on the card by some distance, and is defending. Cullen is 2-0 and fighting for a world title in his third appearance.
Two more belts are on the line beneath it. Gaz Corran and Mac Bygraves meet for the inaugural BKFC UK Middleweight Title, and Karl Thompson defends the UK cruiserweight belt against Andy Thornton, a fight the two of them started arguing about at the launch press conference in August.
Cullen won the title by split decision, 58-55, 56-57, 57-56, after the fight was initially scored a draw and went to a sudden-death extra round. It’s a genuine upset: Mundell was 10-2 in bare knuckle and the far more experienced fighter, while Cullen was 2-0 and challenging for a world title in just his third BKFC appearance. Corran and Thompson also came through, with Corran stopping Bygraves in the third round to win the inaugural UK middleweight title and Thompson taking a unanimous decision over Thornton to retain the UK cruiserweight belt.
BKFC 94: Full Card
Records in brackets are bare knuckle only.
Main card:
- Cruiserweight, main event: Darren Till (1-0) vs. Yoel Romero (1-0)
- BKFC World Middleweight Title: David Mundell (10-2) vs. Jack Cullen (2-0)
- Inaugural BKFC UK Middleweight Title: Gaz Corran (2-0) vs. Mac Bygraves (3-0)
- BKFC UK Cruiserweight Title: Karl Thompson (4-1) vs. Andy Thornton (2-0)
- Middleweight: Joe Lister (2-1) vs. Harry Bray (1-0)
- Welterweight: Mikey Henderson (3-0) vs. Matthew Wiwczaryk (3-1)
- Featherweight: Stew Martin (1-1) vs. Joshy Williams
- Welterweight: Luke Vaughan vs. Bartlomiej Krol (5-2)
- Middleweight: Ste Wallwork vs. Leigh Cohoon (3-0)
Undercard:
- Middleweight: Benjamin Lowe (0-2) vs. Dan McGraffin (4-3)
- Welterweight: Tyrone Hamer vs. Liam Dooley (1-1)
- Welterweight: Luke Bassnett vs. Darren Willans
BKFC 94 Results
Full results from BKFC 94, including the Darren Till vs. Yoel Romero main event.
- Darren Till def. Yoel Romero (Unanimous Decision, 49-46, 49-46, 49-46) — main event
- Jack Cullen def. David Mundell (Split Decision, 58-55, 56-57, 57-56, after an extra round following a draw) — wins the BKFC World Middleweight Title
- Gaz Corran def. Mac Bygraves (TKO, Round 3, 0:26) — wins the inaugural BKFC UK Middleweight Title
- Karl Thompson def. Andy Thornton (Unanimous Decision, 50-45, 50-45, 50-45) — retains the BKFC UK Cruiserweight Title
- Joe Lister def. Harry Bray (TKO, Round 2, 1:58)
- Mikey Henderson def. Matthew Wiwczaryk (TKO, doctor’s stoppage, Round 1, 2:00)
- Stew Martin def. Joshy Williams (TKO, doctor’s stoppage, Round 2, 2:00)
- Bartlomiej Krol def. Luke Vaughan (TKO, Round 1, 0:55)
- Leigh Cohoon def. Ste Wallwork (TKO, doctor’s stoppage, Round 2, 2:00)
- Benjamin Lowe def. Dan McGraffin (TKO, Round 1, 1:42)
- Tyrone Hamer def. Liam Dooley (TKO, Round 3, 1:59)
- Luke Bassnett def. Darren Willans (KO, Round 2, 1:57)
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