{"id":1918,"date":"2026-07-02T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:43:46","slug":"a-year-ago-matt-turnbull-was-watching-bkfc-from-the-crowd-now-hes-ready-to-bring-controlled-chaos-into-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1918","title":{"rendered":"A year ago, Matt Turnbull was watching BKFC from the crowd. Now, he\u2019s ready to bring \u2018controlled chaos\u2019 into the ring."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In January 2025, Matthew Turnbull sat in the crowd as a fan to watch as Eddie Alvarez headlined KnuckleMania V at Xfinity Mobile Arena, then known as the Wells Fargo Center. Despite a tough loss in his hometown, Alvarez, a Kensington native and former UFC champion, received a hero\u2019s welcome from the crowd. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1916\">Goodwill opens new medical equipment store in South Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was one of the craziest sporting events I\u2019ve ever been to live,\u201d Turnbull, a Northeast Philly native, said. \u201cThe energy in the building, especially for the main event when Eddie was fighting, I never experienced anything like it. I mean, there\u2019s no one bigger than Eddie. I already saw the best come out of the area. So I\u2019m just going to follow his footsteps.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Over a year later, with a ring set up in the middle of Stateside Live! for open workouts, Turnbull hit mitts with Alvarez as he prepared for his own Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship debut Friday at the same venue. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cBare Knuckle was never on my radar, but then I saw the Eddie Alvarez main event and I was like, \u2018This is incredible,\u2019\u201d Turnbull said. \u201cAnd then they hit me up, and I was like, \u2018Why not?\u2019 \u2026 There\u2019s no lies. You can do the talking and all the fun aspects of getting eyes on you, but when you get into there, it\u2019s nothing but the truth. And I\u2019m a big fan of the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Turnbull describes his fighting style as \u201ccontrolled chaos.\u201d He got his start after he was kicked off Franklin Towne Charter\u2019s high school wrestling team. Afterward, his coach recommended training in jujitsu, which led to him competing in the Philly area-based MMA promotion Art of War Cage Fighting. Three months ago, Turnbull successfully defended his featherweight championship with a submission win against Ryan Yapsam. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Now, he\u2019s focused on bare-knuckle fighting, which comes with a different training regimen.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just using our hands and trying to get used to conditioning our hands for bare knuckles without hurting them in the process,\u201d Turnbull said. \u201cSo training with hand wraps as opposed to gloves and doing hand strengthening techniques that I wouldn\u2019t do when I\u2019m going to have a pair of gloves on my hands when I fight. But the discipline is still there. It\u2019s just a little bit different of a path than I\u2019m used to.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Turnbull has been training with Alvarez out of his gym, Underground Kings MMA in Newtown. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1914\">5 area Fourth of July events | Inquirer Greater Media<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn order to do this sport, one of the leading things you need is toughness,\u201d Alvarez said. \u201cYou need to be able to take a shot and take damage and keep going. There\u2019s guys who are very technical boxers who don\u2019t do well here. You\u2019re going to take damage. You\u2019re going to get hurt. You got to be able to overcome. You got to be able to keep going in the face of adversity. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMatt Turnbull is that guy. He\u2019s that guy that keeps going, no matter what is going on. He\u2019s built for it. For him, it\u2019s just about honing his skills in boxing. Over the last two months, I\u2019ve never seen a guy grow so much in one sport. So I\u2019m excited to see his showing on July 3.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Turnbull originally was scheduled to compete against fellow Philly native Pat Sullivan, who recently pulled out of the fight. The two share some bad blood, including an altercation at open workouts that resulted in Sullivan allegedly biting Turnbull in the back of the head. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to talk about [someone] who pulls out from a fight because he realized he bit off more than he can chew,\u201d Turnbull said. \u201cNow, I\u2019m fighting Brandon Honsvick. \u2026 He\u2019s not as big as a name because he\u2019s not a clown like that. So he doesn\u2019t have a bunch of eyeballs on him and stuff like that. But he\u2019s a much more skilled fighter and someone more deserving of being in the ring with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Sullivan still will compete on the card against a new opponent, Colin Reeser. Meanwhile, Turnbull is set to make his debut against Honsvick on the night before Independence Day in the birthplace of America at Xfinity Mobile Arena. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re from Philly, you dream of fighting in that arena,\u201d Turnbull said. \u201cThat\u2019s what the goal is. And to be able to do it, especially after people like Eddie, it\u2019s a lot of pressure. So it\u2019s an exciting thing for me. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think I embody what it is to be a Philly fighter. My Instagram name is thephillyfighter. So I try to embody the rawness of it, the intensity, the leave it all in the cage or in the ring mentality, not turning down opportunities or opponents, believe in yourself, and keep fighting until the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1911\">Bucks County Commissioners approve first paid parental leave policy for county employees<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Turnbull went from watching Eddie Alvarez in the crowd at Xfinity Mobile Arena to preparing for his BKFC debut on Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A year ago, Matt Turnbull was watching BKFC from the crowd. 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