List of bare-knuckle boxers is an aggregate of articles pertaining to boxers
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.... that fought either all or part of their careers as bare-knuckle boxers
Bare-knuckle boxing
Bare-knuckle boxing is the original form of boxing closely related to ancient combat sports. It involves two individuals fighting without any boxing gloves or other form of padding on their hands.... .
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List of bare-knuckle boxers is an aggregate of articles pertaining to boxers
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.... that fought either all or part of their careers as bare-knuckle boxers
Bare-knuckle boxing
Bare-knuckle boxing is the original form of boxing closely related to ancient combat sports. It involves two individuals fighting without any boxing gloves or other form of padding on their hands.... .
Paul Michael Gross , is a Canada actor, Television producer, film director, singer and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. He is known for his lead role as Benton Fraser in the television series Due South as well as his acting and directing role in the Canada war film Passchendaele_.... BULLET5years Bareknuckle champ
Young Barney Aaron was an Anglo-American Boxing.The son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron, he emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856....
Don "The Bull" Adams was a Bare-knuckle boxing, from Waltham Cross, London, England. In addition he was known as King of the Gypsies. At least one of his fights was detected by the authorities....
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....
Andy Bowen was an American boxer from New Orleans. Andy was born on May 3, 1867. He had a promising career that was cut short due to in ring injuries suffered in a fight against Kid Lavigne on December 15, 1884 in his hometown of New Orleans....
Benjamin Brain outweighed most men and even most professional fighters in the England of the 1780s. A coal miner by trade, Brain was a valiant fighter whose career spanned twenty years....
Bill Brassey was an England Bare-knuckle boxing.On October 26, 1840, Ben Caunt defeated Bill Brassey at Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, in 101 rounds....
Bill Brennan was an American boxer who fought and lost to World Heavy Weight Champion Jack Dempsey twice. He first began fighting under the name Bill Shanks and knocked out 11 of his first 12 opponents....
Johnny Broome was a lightweight bare-knuckle boxer.Broome was a gifted pugilist known as ?Young Duckro.? He was never defeated in the prize ring, and had a younger brother who became Heavyweight Champion of England....
John "Jack" Broughton, , was an England Bare-knuckle boxing fighter. He was the first person to ever codify a set of rules to be used in such contests; prior to this the "rules" that existed were very loosely defined and tended to vary from contest to contest....
James "Deaf" Burke , 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 200 lb , was one of England's earliest boxing champions. He trained in the area around the River Thames....
Charley Burley was a boxer of the 1940s, compiling a record of 83 wins , 12 losses, and 2 draws with 1 "no contest". However, because he was so formidable, Burley was never granted a title shot by any of the welterweight and middleweight champions of that era and was also avoided by many of the top white contenders ....
Nick Burley was an American boxer from 1890 until 1907. In 1902 he defeated Frank "Paddy" Slavin to win the Heavyweight Championship of the Yukon Territory....
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....
Paddy Ryan was an Irish-American boxing, and became his sport's Heavyweight Champion from May 30 1880 when he won the title from Joe Goss until losing his title to John L....
Tommy Ryan was a famed welterweight and middleweight champion who fought from 1887-1907. Ryan was considered an excellent boxer-puncher, and many consider him one of the all time greatest middleweight champions....
Thomas Sayers, also known as Tom Sayers , was an England boxing. During his career as a Bare-knuckle boxing fighter, at the time illegal, he was only once defeated....
"Sailor" Tom Sharkey was a boxer who fought two fights with heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries. Sharkey's recorded ring career spanned from 1893 to 1904....
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....
Viro Small was a Catch wrestling and Boxing of African descent who was active in the late 19th century. He is notable for being one of the first professionals of African descent in these fields in the United States....
Jack "The Neck" Sparkes is a U-18 amateur English boxer. Sparkes is rated by many as the future of english boxing with Amateur Boxing Association of England referee Mike Sycliffe commenting that "Sparkes is a beast, powerful and graceful...he could the best since Mike Tyson"....
Jimmy Spinks was a famed East End of London criminal and bareknuckle boxing.In his earlier years, he was said to have been extremely handsome and was approached by a man who was also an acting agent of James Cagney, who asked Spinks if he would have liked to act....
Tom Spring was an England Bare-knuckle boxing fighter. He was heavyweight champion of England in 1821 until his retirement in 1824. After his retirement he became landlord of the Castle Inn at Holborn in London, where he arranged the patronage and contracts of many of the major boxing events of the period while overseeing fair play in the...
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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....
Yankee Sullivan also known as Frank Murray and James Sullivan was a bare knuckle fighter and boxer. He was a Champion of Prizefighting from 1851 to October 12, 1853....
Johnny Waldron, born in East Grinstead, Sussex on 12 January 1951 , also known as "Big Bad" Johnny Waldron was a Light Heavyweight professional Boxing based in Great Britain and Germany during the 1970s and early 1980s....
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....
Harry Woodson was a professional boxing, nicknamed The Black Diamond, who was active during the 19th century in the Cincinnati area. Due to the political reality of the time Woodson mostly fought other black boxers, but he was good enough that he fought occasional matches with white men as well....
List of bare-knuckle lightweight champions is a chronological from England and the United States. In some cases, the champions and their reigns can be disputed....
