Bare-Knuckle Boxing.....you in or out?

[Larry the boss]

I'm in lets get it on,i punch fences all the time to harden my fist so it would be like hitting someone with a brick

[Forza]

I'm in, just don't allow actual legit boxers waste their bodies in the sport.

Bring in a bunch of bums and let them slaughter each other for our amusement

[extracurRICular]

I'm in lets get it on,i punch fences all the time to harden my fist so it would be like hitting someone with a brick

hahahahhaha...............

[AKATheMack]

I'm in, all the sources I can find on the internet say bare knuckle is actually safer long term.

[RA-Box]

I know this is not entirely on topic, but my dream would be to see a tournament/league/sport under these rules:

1. Square Arena made of cement or stone

2. Any moves allowed (wearing cup protectors)

3. Any cloth based clothing allowed (no metal/plastic)

4. Fight ends in KO, or ring out (x3)

Basically, Virtua Fighter rules.

It's nerdy, I know, But it would determine the best fighter in the world, indisputably.

As far as bare-knuckle boxing goes (with boxing rules, boxing ring, etc), I'll have to agree with everyone's comments so far. I'm out.

[XxLeftHook_]

If we're talking about hardcore entertainment, why not just bring Gladiator's back!? They would have to fight to the death with all kinds of diff weapons even against tiger's and lion's ..I would pay some good PPV money for that **** lol..who's with me!!

[KingTito]

There's no reason for bare knuckle boxing. There's a reason they stopped with that.

[AKATheMack]

Since then the regulation gloves have got heavier and heavier until today middleweights and above, like Gerald McClellan and Nigel Been, not only wear 10-ounce (283-gram) gloves but are also permitted to have each hand wrapped in up to 18 feet (5.5 metres) of bandages held in place by 9 to 11 feet of zinc-oxide tape.

This padding helps the hitter and hurts the hittee. Since the bones in a man's head are stronger than the bones in a man's fists, a bare-knuckle fighter risks damaging himself more than his opponent if he hits as hard as he can when he aims punches at the head. Unless he has unusually brittle hands, a boxer whose fists are protected by cushions has no such inhibitions. He can hit to the head with full force without much risk of injuring his hands -- and so add to the number of boxers who end up on the slab or with pugilistica dementia.

In most other respects prize-fighting in the 19th century under the old Broughton rules was far more brutal than today's professional boxing. Nobody sensible wants a return to the days when pugilists fought to the finish in brawls that sometime lasted for hours. But a return to bare knuckles, or even mitts, would make the sport safer than it is with boxing gloves. Safer does not, of course, mean safe. It will still be hard to quarrel with the American Medical Association Journal when it says that in other sports injury of the opponent is an undesirable by-product of the activity but "in boxing the injury of the opponent is deliberate and the method to win."

Makes sense to me.

[Clint650]

i would watch it, but i dont think it would last long. the fights or the idea. it is the same idea of MMA when it first started out, which was brutal but also entertaining until they decided to have rules. top athletes wont get involved in this so it wont hurt the sport of boxing, i think it will be similar to the tough man comp. with more blood. why not?

[tennis-legend]

bare knuckle is real boxing



wearing gloves is like wearing condoms- its for ****

if the bitch looks nasty. then dont hit itt- get your dick licked and then split