Who are your favorite bare knuckled boxers?

[LoadedWraps]

Yea but like, once the dude started punching you would think he would react? I guess not . That was brutal af though. Did his head hit the concrete on the side when he got kicked? Looked like it to me.

Depends on if he's used to being punched, how he takes a punch, if he's sober, if it hurt, etc.

I've been in a street fight where I stood there for the first few times I got hit because the adrenaline didn't let me feel the pain and I was assessing the situation as it was happening (looking at the rest of his crew that had weapons etc). I didn't fall down, but it bought me a few seconds of "wtf?" reactions and the attacker kind of took a step back.

In this case, I don't know anything about that guy and he might just be slow to react or dazed, or drunk.

Me though i'm an analytic person and I have a boxing and military background so I am processing information as an altercation progresses differently than others most likely.

The video seemed kind of in slow motion it seemed but in real time you don't have that long to react between punches either especially if they are snapping your head back.

[robertzimmerman]

My friend LoadsofWraps inspired me to make this thread after seeing his about Jefferies and then I started thinking of John L Sullivan and it snowballed. So thanks for that. Alright who are your favorite old school bare knuckled boxers? That bare knuckled John L Sullivan led era is my favorite in boxing history. Along with John L Sullivan here's some of my other favorites.

John L. Sullivan

James J. Corbett

Peter Jackson

Jack Dempsey

Bartley Gorman:

Said to be one of the greatest bare knuckle fighters in history. His great grandfather once fought the great Jem Mace. He sadly died in 2002, but he was undefeated and hailed as: "The King of the Gypsies" for 20 years. He is the cousin of Big John Fury, Tyson's father.

Shane Meadows, one of Britain's greatest screenwriters, famous for the: "This is England" series, did a short film on him for Channel 4 back in 1995. Shane knew him personally, as he was friends with Bartley's son. It's Shane's dream to one day make a feature length biopic of Bartley's incredible life.

Here's his Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartley_Gorman


Here's Shane's short film from 1995:

https://********/zvybZLKH7Zk


Here's his autobiography, completed just before his death in 2002:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/King-Gypsie.../dp/1903854164

I've literally read the book about 20 times. He was a remarkable man. I urge you to purchase it. You won't be disappointed. Included in the book are: very rare photographs, and a brief history of the all time greats from the birth of the sport.


Enjoy.

[robertzimmerman]

my thoughts exactly

I'll never understand how some of the people here have ******s with the likes of Harry Greb, when they have never seen them fight, not even once

I'd rather be a fan of Jackie Chan, Batman, Spiderman or Kimbo Slice

at least with them you got something to watch and root for.

with these dinosaur mofos you got nothing

aside from a record in a book and your own delirious imagination

It's true. Nobody today has seen Harry Greb fight. But there's plenty of respected people who did see him fight, who have passed on their accounts. We also know who he beat. And there's footage available of some of the guys who he beat. So we know that he was truly a remarkable fighter.

I have a friend on another forum. And he was asked the same quetion that you did.

He gave a great answer:

"I've never seen a tornado first hand in the flesh. But I've seen the devastation that it left behind"

[Real King Kong]

Not that I'm aware of. I don't even know if cameras where invented yet.

Then what are these favorites based on? Who had the best moustache?

[STEELHEAD]

these bareknuckle guys are ausum butt when put up against an educated boxer they fail. brains a makes the differents.

[SouthPawHitman]

Bartley Gorman:

Said to be one of the greatest bare knuckle fighters in history. His great grandfather once fought the great Jem Mace. He sadly died in 2002, but he was undefeated and hailed as: "The King of the Gypsies" for 20 years. He is the cousin of Big John Fury, Tyson's father.

Shane Meadows, one of Britain's greatest screenwriters, famous for the: "This is England" series, did a short film on him for Channel 4 back in 1995. Shane knew him personally, as he was friends with Bartley's son. It's Shane's dream to one day make a feature length biopic of Bartley's incredible life.

Here's his Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartley_Gorman


Here's Shane's short film from 1995:

https://********/zvybZLKH7Zk


Here's his autobiography, completed just before his death in 2002:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/King-Gypsie.../dp/1903854164

I've literally read the book about 20 times. He was a remarkable man. I urge you to purchase it. You won't be disappointed. Included in the book are: very rare photographs, and a brief history of the all time greats from the birth of the sport.


Enjoy.

Green K Sent

Then what are these favorites based on? Who had the best moustache?

No that would be ridiculous. Those were the top guys at the time I began following boxing. They had that warrior style that I loved and still do.

[billeau2]

"Seeing" a fighter is a relatively modern phenomena. There were generations of fans who "heard" fighters. The way we get to love a fighter we have not seen is to see the fighter's influences. Never saw Choyinsky but he actually taught a great deal to Jack Johnson. We know Choyinsky bas a mensch, he beat jj once...We know JJ, a man who did not give a compliment easily, had a lot of good to say about Choyinsky.

I never met James Figg...but I know how much I despise killing for egotistical reasons. its known that Figg could cut you in many ways and chose not to... knowing what I do about the blade arts and boxing I can imagine Figg converting the techniques of italian Fencing to hand techniques...its in the technique of the early fighters if one knows what to look for.

[yngwie]

Has anyone seen that Tom Hardy movie about a bareknuckle fighter?, Bronson or something like that.

[LoadedWraps]

"Seeing" a fighter is a relatively modern phenomena. There were generations of fans who "heard" fighters. The way we get to love a fighter we have not seen is to see the fighter's influences. Never saw Choyinsky but he actually taught a great deal to Jack Johnson. We know Choyinsky bas a mensch, he beat jj once...We know JJ, a man who did not give a compliment easily, had a lot of good to say about Choyinsky.

I never met James Figg...but I know how much I despise killing for egotistical reasons. its known that Figg could cut you in many ways and chose not to... knowing what I do about the blade arts and boxing I can imagine Figg converting the techniques of italian Fencing to hand techniques...its in the technique of the early fighters if one knows what to look for.

[RED REP]

Stanley Ketchell and James Corbett? What the **** are some of you guys talking about. They wasn't bare knuckle lmfao.