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Facts we got wrong, what the page says now, and the source we corrected it from. Newest first.

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29 entries · last entry November 3, 2026

  1. King of the Streets has no eye-gouge prize penalty

    What it said
    Pages said a December 2022 KOTS rule made a fighter who won by eye gouging forfeit the prize money, that KOTS still ran a K.O.-only format, and that it had no medical staff.
    What it says now
    KOTS's own channel says the opposite: eye gouging "is and will always be allowed", and "we ain't banning anything". The December 2022 change allowed weapons if both fighters agree. The K.O.-only format was dropped in November 2022, and recent cards have doctors stitching fighters afterwards.

  2. The bare-knuckle concussion figures

    What it said
    Pages compared a 1.5% bare-knuckle concussion rate with "6-12%" for boxing and "14.7%" for MMA, and concluded bare knuckle causes fewer concussions.
    What it says now
    The 1.5% came from a preliminary 2020 conference presentation; the boxing and MMA figures trace to no study. The peer-reviewed figure is 2.8% of fighter appearances (8 of 282, BKFC bouts 2018-2020). No study measures both sports the same way, so "fewer concussions" is now presented as a hypothesis.

  3. A BKFC fighter has died after a bout

    What it said
    One page said there had been no deaths at BKFC events.
    What it says now
    Justin Thornton died in 2021, about six weeks after being knocked out at a BKFC event in Mississippi.
    Source

  4. Nevada has never sanctioned bare-knuckle boxing

    What it said
    The state-by-state guide said Nevada legalised bare-knuckle in 2022 and carried a table of legalization years and commission names that no source supports. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and New Jersey were marked as grey areas; New Hampshire and West Virginia as sanctioned.
    What it says now
    BKFC pitched the Nevada commission in January 2024 and was taken under advisement; no card has been held there. The guide now lists the states that have hosted a BKFC card, with commission sources. PA, GA, TN, VA and NJ are sanctioned; NH and WV are grey areas (no card or rule found).

  5. Canada's prize-fight law, quoted correctly

    What it said
    The pages quoted section 83 of the Criminal Code as saying contestants are not guilty of assault, and said gloved bouts are exempt.
    What it says now
    Section 83 makes engaging in, promoting or attending a prize fight an offence; the exemptions are amateur sport and boxing or MMA held under a provincially authorised commission. The sentence the pages quoted is not in the statute.

  6. Alabama did not pass a Power Slap ban

    What it said
    The page said Governor Kay Ivey signed a law banning slap fighting in Alabama in 2023.
    What it says now
    No such law was signed. Alabama's athletic commission voted to keep slap fighting illegal in 2023, and a 2026 bill (SB7) did not become law.

  7. KnuckleMania VI result, date and venue

    What it said
    The page said Andrei Arlovski beat Ben Rothwell by unanimous decision on 21 February in front of 18,000+ fans, with an undercard that did not take place.
    What it says now
    KnuckleMania VI was held on 7 February 2026 at Xfinity Mobile Arena, Philadelphia. Arlovski won the heavyweight title by TKO (doctor stoppage, round 3); the full 13-bout card is from published results.

  8. Austin Trout is not a BKFC champion

    What it said
    The profile called Trout the current champion, unbeaten at 5-0 and pound-for-pound number one.
    What it says now
    Trout is 5-1 in BKFC. He vacated the welterweight title, then lost the vacant lightweight title fight to Ben Bonner by knockout in Philadelphia on 3 July 2026.

  9. BKFC pay: released purses replace invented ranges

    What it said
    Pay pages carried tier tables (e.g. "prelim $2,500-$5,000") and said King of the Streets, Strelka and Rough N' Rowdy pay nothing.
    What it says now
    The tables now come from the only two commission-released BKFC payrolls (46 purses, $2,000 to $600,000, all flat). KOTS pays winners only, Strelka pays its top fighters in cashable points, and Rough N' Rowdy paid a $250 minimum and $750 to winners.

  10. BKFC is back to 12 weight divisions

    What it said
    After the July 2026 Ironweight addition, pages said BKFC has 13 divisions, including men's flyweight.
    What it says now
    BKFC closed its men's flyweight division on 16 October 2026. Its rankings now list 12 divisions: nine men's and three women's.

  11. Chris Wilmore is alive

    What it said
    The page stated that StreetBeefs founder Chris "Scarface" Wilmore died in April 2023. No source supported it.
    What it says now
    Wilmore is alive and still runs StreetBeefs. His own Threads account was posting about upcoming fights at the Winchester yard in May 2025, and the organization's event pages list monthly cards into 2026.

  12. California sanctions bare-knuckle boxing

    What it said
    The state checker said California's athletic commission "is not confirmed to sanction bare-knuckle" and listed the state as having no framework.
    What it says now
    California is listed as sanctioned. BKFC KnuckleMania IV was held in Los Angeles on 27 April 2024 under the California State Athletic Commission, which released the card's purses. As a result, the statistics page's count of tracked states that sanction bare-knuckle went from 11 to 12.

  13. BKFC champions list

    What it said
    About seven of the 13 division champions on the list were out of date or wrong.
    What it says now
    The list was rebuilt from BKFC's own rankings page on 27 September 2026, including Jack Cullen at middleweight after his split-decision win at BKFC 94 on 26 September 2026.
    Still open
    Sources disagreed on the cruiserweight title at the time: bkfc.com showed Rodriguez, other outlets showed Sakara as undisputed champion with Rodriguez as interim. We have not resolved it.

  14. Where Felony Fights footage survives

    What it said
    The page listed Down and Dirty among the volumes uploaded to the Internet Archive, and said links to a dedicated Felony Fights channel no longer resolve.
    What it says now
    Four volumes were uploaded as separate items (Sick and Twisted Games, Return of the Games, The 3rd Strike, Business as Usual); Down and Dirty was not one of them. A September 2025 upload added disc images of all six volumes. The old @FELONYFIGHTS handle is dead, but a self-described official channel, @officialfelonyfight1, is still live with clips from 2013.

  15. Rough N' Rowdy fighter pay

    What it said
    The Rough N' Rowdy row said winners are paid "~$1,000", attributed to "media reporting" with no traceable source.
    What it says now
    $250 minimum per fighter and $750 to the winner, as reported for RnR 17 in 2022, with title bouts paid more. No later pay scale has been published, and the promotion has been dormant since RnR 25 in August 2024.

  16. StreetBeefs base and age limit

    What it said
    Pages said StreetBeefs is based in Harrisonburg, Virginia, that no venue address is ever published, and that fighters must be between 18 and 60.
    What it says now
    StreetBeefs was founded in Harrisonburg, but its monthly "OG Yard" cards have been held at a private property in Winchester, Virginia, since January 2024. The 2024 event pages printed the address; current ones email it to fighters the week before. HQ requires fighters to be 18 or older with ID and sets no upper age. The 18 to 60 range is the rule at the Scrapyard branch in Gig Harbor, Washington.
    Still open
    Body text is corrected. Some summary boxes and headings on these pages (for example the age heading on the rules page and the home-base fact on the organization page) still carry the old wording and are scheduled for correction.

  17. Virginia law and StreetBeefs

    What it said
    Pages said "under Virginia law, consensual combat on private property is permitted" and that Va. Code § 54.1-828 prohibits paying fighters.
    What it says now
    § 54.1-828 is the definitions section of Virginia's combat-sports licensing chapter. Unpaid amateur bouts fall outside that licensing regime (§§ 54.1-829 and 54.1-830), which is not the same as a legal permission. Virginia's assault statute, § 18.2-57, still applies to a fight.

  18. Harrisonburg police and StreetBeefs

    What it said
    The page said the Harrisonburg Police Department had "publicly affirmed the permissibility" of StreetBeefs events.
    What it says now
    The department's on-record 2016 statement is that it "does not condone the method which Mr. Wilmore is hosting".

  19. BKFC pays flat purses, with no win bonus

    What it said
    Pages said BKFC pays "a guaranteed base purse plus a win bonus that typically matches it", and a "Total With Win" table column doubled every purse. The same claim appeared in the BKFC row of 14 other fighter-pay guides.
    What it says now
    On both BKFC cards where a state commission released the payroll (BKFC 28, New Mexico, 2022; KnuckleMania IV, California, 2024), every fighter was paid one flat purse with no separate win bonus. The highest released purse is Mike Perry's $600,000 at KnuckleMania IV. His reported "$1M+" nights are labelled as reported, not released.

  20. Christine Ferea's purse

    What it said
    Four pages said Christine Ferea earned $250,000 purses.
    What it says now
    Her only commission-released purse is $22,500, at BKFC 28 in New Mexico in August 2022. Figures for her later title fights have not been released.

  21. No US state has a "mutual combat law"

    What it said
    The guide said "only Washington and Texas have a clearly established mutual combat defense" and four more states allow a limited one. Other pages said a consensual fight in Texas could not lead to assault charges, that a police officer must oversee the fight, and that Oregon has mutual combat provisions. The same claims appeared on about 20 other pages.
    What it says now
    No state has a law that makes a consensual fight legal. Texas (Penal Code § 22.06) and Colorado (C.R.S. 18-1-505) allow consent as a defense, argued after a charge, and only where no serious injury results. Washington's "mutual combat" reputation comes from a Seattle city ordinance (SMC 12A.06.025), not state law. Oregon (ORS 161.215(1)(c)), New York (Penal Law § 35.15(1)(c)) and Colorado (18-1-704(3)(c)) bar a self-defense claim for force used in "combat by agreement".

  22. Two court cases that do not exist

    What it said
    The guide rested Washington's "established" mutual combat status on State v. Harwood (1971) and Seattle v. Lockwood (1976). We could find no record of either case; the only search results for them were our own page.
    What it says now
    Both citations are removed. The guide now cites State v. Shelley (Wash. Ct. App. 1997), which allows consent as a defense only for the foreseeable hazards of a lawful sport.

  23. BKB is the former BYB Extreme

    What it said
    Around 30 pages carried one or more of these claims: BKB is a UK promotion based in Coventry, founded in 2012, "operating primarily in the UK", with BYB as its American subsidiary. The BKB pay guide named Dada 5000 as "Dwayne Ferguson".
    What it says now
    Today's BKB is the former BYB Extreme, founded in Miami in 2015 by Dhafir "Dada 5000" Harris and Mike Vazquez. BYB bought the British promotion BKB (founded 2015 by Jim Freeman and Joe Smith-Brown) in May 2024 and took the BKB name in February 2025. The Trigon is BYB's own patented ring. Cards run in the US, UK and Mexico.

  24. BKFC has 13 weight divisions

    What it said
    Pages said BKFC has 12 divisions. The weight-class guide used the athletic commissions' unified-rules table (welterweight 170 lb, heavyweight 265 lb, a "super heavyweight" class), and the organization page's weight table was shifted by one division with stale champions.
    What it says now
    BKFC has 13 divisions (ten men's, three women's) since adding Ironweight (225 lb) in July 2026, and uses its own limits: BKFC welterweight is 165 lb. Champions were replaced from BKFC's rankings page.
    Still open
    Superseded on 3 November 2026: BKFC closed men's flyweight in October 2026 and is back to 12 divisions (see that entry).

  25. BKFC clinch rule and round count

    What it said
    The rules page said punching in the clinch is banned. Four pages said BKFC title fights may be seven rounds.
    What it says now
    Fighters may punch their way out of a clinch; the referee breaks it after a three-second lull. Every BKFC bout is five two-minute rounds.

  26. Power Slap pay

    What it said
    The pay guide carried a purse table and bonuses ("Knockout of the Night $25,000 to $50,000", "Slap of the Night") with no source, and pages placed Power Slap "under the Zuffa umbrella".
    What it says now
    Power Slap purses are filed with the Nevada Athletic Commission but are not made public, so the page lists only the figures on record, including the $10,000 Performance of the Night bonus. Power Slap was founded by Dana White, Lorenzo Fertitta and Craig Piligian in partnership with the UFC.

  27. BKFC vs UFC pay figures

    What it said
    The comparison said BKFC pays fighters a "35–45% revenue share" on about $80 million of revenue, and gave case-study purses for Perry, VanZant and Lobov that could not be traced to any source.
    What it says now
    The revenue-share and revenue figures are removed. The case studies use commission-released purses and Paige VanZant's own on-record quote.

  28. Massachusetts sanctions bare-knuckle boxing

    What it said
    The state checker listed Massachusetts as having no framework for bare-knuckle boxing, contradicting our own state-by-state guide.
    What it says now
    Massachusetts is listed as sanctioned. BKFC 92 at Fenway Park on 29 August 2026 was the first sanctioned bare-knuckle event in the state.

  29. Massachusetts in the state-by-state guide

    What it said
    The guide described Massachusetts as opposed to sanctioning bare-knuckle boxing.
    What it says now
    The guide records that the Massachusetts State Athletic Commission sanctioned BKFC 92 at Fenway Park, the state's first sanctioned bare-knuckle event.
    Still open
    The same guide's Nevada and California rows are under review: they disagree with our state checker.

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