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Bare-knuckle

Bare-knuckle means without gloves, bandages or any other protection for and/or dangerous 'arming' of the knuckles, a larger part or even the whole hand....
 for other uses.
Bare-knuckle boxing (also known as bare-knuckle, prizefighting, or fisticuffs) is the original form of boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 closely related to ancient combat sport
Combat sport

A combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement, typically with the aim of simulating parts of real hand to hand combat....
s. It involves two individuals fighting without any boxing gloves
Boxing gloves

File:Boxhandschuhe 20071227.jpgBoxing gloves are gloves that fighters wear or use on their hands to cushion the impact during boxing matches. Their primary use is to protect the knuckles of the fighters, however, a side effect is that more severe brain injuries are caused to the opponent, owing to the larger force of gloved punches....
 or other form of padding on their hands. The difference between a streetfight and a bare-knuckle boxing match is that there are rules, such as not striking
Strike (attack)

A strike is an attack with an inanimate object, such as a weapon, or with a part of the human body intended to cause an effect upon an opponent or to simply cause harm to an opponent....
 a downed opponent, that are followed unlike a "no-holds-barred" match.


Records
The longest bareknuckle fight on record occurred in Melbourne, Australia, on October 19, 1856.






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See also bare-knuckle
Bare-knuckle

Bare-knuckle means without gloves, bandages or any other protection for and/or dangerous 'arming' of the knuckles, a larger part or even the whole hand....
 for other uses.
Bare-knuckle boxing (also known as bare-knuckle, prizefighting, or fisticuffs) is the original form of boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 closely related to ancient combat sport
Combat sport

A combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement, typically with the aim of simulating parts of real hand to hand combat....
s. It involves two individuals fighting without any boxing gloves
Boxing gloves

File:Boxhandschuhe 20071227.jpgBoxing gloves are gloves that fighters wear or use on their hands to cushion the impact during boxing matches. Their primary use is to protect the knuckles of the fighters, however, a side effect is that more severe brain injuries are caused to the opponent, owing to the larger force of gloved punches....
 or other form of padding on their hands. The difference between a streetfight and a bare-knuckle boxing match is that there are rules, such as not striking
Strike (attack)

A strike is an attack with an inanimate object, such as a weapon, or with a part of the human body intended to cause an effect upon an opponent or to simply cause harm to an opponent....
 a downed opponent, that are followed unlike a "no-holds-barred" match.

John L Sullivan

Records


The longest bareknuckle fight on record occurred in Melbourne, Australia, on October 19, 1856. James Kelly and Jack Smith fought for 6 hours 15 minutes.

Jim Mace, the English champion, and Joe Coburn
Joe Coburn

Joe Coburn was an Irish-American boxer. Born into a working class Protestant family, in 1862 he claimed the Heavyweight Championship from John C Heenan based on Heenan refusing to fight him....
, onetime U.S. titleholder, fought a bareknuckles bout in New Orleans in 1870. The fight was billed as the fight of the century, but when the actual contest was held it went 3 hours 48 minutes and neither man struck a blow.

Mace holds the record for the longest career of any professional fighter in history. He was in the ring for 35 years.

Only one fighter has ever been knighted. Sir Dan Donnelly, champion of Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 around 1815, received the singular honor.

Notable bare-knuckle boxers

  • Jem Belcher
    Jem Belcher

    Jem Belcher was an England Bare-knuckle boxing and Champion of All England 1800-1805.Born in Bristol, Belcher drew with champion Jack Bartholomew in a 51-round bout in 1799, and won the rematch in the following year to become champion....
  • Simon Byrne
    Simon Byrne

    Simon Byrne , nicknamed "The Emerald Gem", was an Irish people bare-knuckle boxing prize fighter. The heavyweight boxing champion of Ireland, he was drawn to England by the larger sums of prize money and his hopes to become the heavyweight champion there as well....
  • Ben Caunt
    Ben Caunt

    Ben Caunt was a 19th century England bare-knuckle boxer who became the "heavyweight" boxing champion known as the "Torkard Giant."...
  • Gentleman Jim Corbett
  • Tom Cribb
    Tom Cribb

    Tom Cribb was an England bare-knuckle Boxing of the 19th century, so successful that he became world champion. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame....
  • Patrick Doherty
  • James Figg
    James Figg

    James Figg was a Great Britain bare-knuckle boxing. He is universally recognized the first England bare-knuckle boxing Champion, reigning from 1719 to 1730 or 1734....
  • Jem Mace
    Jem Mace

    Jem Mace was an English boxer....
  • Lenny McLean
    Lenny McLean

    Leonard McLean , better known as "The Guv'nor", was a famed East End of London bareknuckle boxing, bouncer , former criminal, author, television presenter, and actor; McLean was often referred to as "the hardest man in UK"....
     (often referred to as "Britain's hardest man")
  • Micheal Gordon Petersen, better known as Charles Bronson
    Charles Bronson (prisoner)

    Charles Bronson is the adopted name of Michael Gordon Peterson, a British criminal who is referred to in the British press as the "most violent prisoner in Britain"....
     (described as "Britain's worst prison inmate
    Prisoner

    Prisoner may refer to one of the following:* A person incarcerated in a prison, jail, or similar facility* Prisoner of war, a soldier in wartime, held as by an enemy...
    ")
  • Johnny Coyle
  • Daniel Mendoza
    Daniel Mendoza

    Daniel Mendoza was an England prizefighter, who was boxing champion of England 1792-95. He was a Sephardic Jew, and is sometimes called the father of scientific boxing....
  • Tom Molineaux
    Tom Molineaux

    Tom Molineaux was an United States Boxing.Born into slavery, Molineaux was trained by his father, also a fighter, as was Molineaux' twin brother....
  • John "Old Smoke" Morrissey
    John Morrissey

    John Morrissey , also known as Old Smoke, was a Bare-knuckle boxing and a gang member in New York in the 1850s and later became a Democratic Party New York State Senate and U.S....
     (Defeated Sullivan for Title)
  • Tom Sayers
  • Peter Griffen
  • Roy Shaw
    Roy Shaw

    Roy "Pretty Boy" Shaw , also known as Roy "Mean Machine" Shaw, is a former criminal, prisoner, and was both a professional boxer and Bare-knuckle boxing during the 1970s and 1980s....
  • Jem Smith
    Jem Smith

    Jem Smith was a bare knuckle prize fighter in the late 19th century and into the early 20th century in England....
  • John L. Sullivan
    John L. Sullivan

    John Lawrence Sullivan was recognized as the first heavyweight champion of Boxing from February 7 1882 to 1892, and is generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring rules....
     (first heavyweight champion)
  • William 'Bendigo' Thompson
    William Thompson (boxer)

    William Abednego Thompson was an English bare-knuckle boxer....
  • Bartley Gorman
    Bartley Gorman

    Bartley Gorman was an Irish Traveller who was the undefeated champion at Bare-knuckle boxing in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Between the years of 1972 and 1992 he held the title of Bareknuckle Champion of Great Britain & Ireland, often simply called the King of the Gypsies....
  • Carlos Sanchez
    Carlos Sánchez

    Carlos S?nchez Garc?a is a Spain soccer with Segunda Divisi?n club CD Castell?n, in the Goalkeeper position....
     (4x Champion)
  • John Jackson
    John Jackson (boxer)

    "Gentleman" John Jackson was a celebrated pugilist of the late 18th century.He won the title Champion of England in a fight on 15 April 1795 in which he beat...
     bare knuckle boxing champ beat Mendoza
  • Jem Ward
    Jem Ward

    Jem Ward was an English Bare-knuckle boxing boxer. "A fine fighter and powerfully built man", he was the English champion boxer from 1825 until 1831....
  • William Perry
    William Perry (boxer)

    William Perry , known as the Tipton Slasher, was an England Boxing of the bare-knuckle era.Born Tipton, Perry claimed the heavyweight boxing championship of England twice, in 1850 and in 1856....
     "The Tipton Slasher"
  • Kevin Ferguson also known as "Kimbo Slice"


See also

  • List of bare-knuckle boxers
    List of bare-knuckle boxers

    List of bare-knuckle boxers is an aggregate of articles pertaining to boxing that fought either all or part of their careers as bare-knuckle boxing....
  • London Prize Ring rules
    London Prize Ring rules

    The London Prize Ring rules was a list of boxing rules promulgated in 1838 and revised in 1853. These rules were based on those drafted by Britain's Jack Broughton in 1743 and governed the conduct of prizefighting/bare-knuckle boxing for over 100 years....
  • Fight Club
    Fight Club

    Fight Club is a 1996 in literature novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The book follows the experiences of an anonymous protagonist struggling with his way of life and changes in American pop culture masculinity....


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