The Legends Of Bare Knuckle Boxing

Author : Patrick White
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519549396
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legends of Bare-knuckle Boxing written by Patrick White and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bare-knuckle boxing (also known as bare-knuckle, prizefighting, fist fight or fisticuffs) is the original form of boxing, closely related to ancient combat sports. It involves two individuals fighting without boxing gloves or other padding on their hands.The difference between a street fight and a bare-knuckle boxing match is an accepted set of rules, such as not striking a downed opponent.This edition by Patrick White covers legendary bare-knuckle fighters from the 18th century - 21st century. Biographies, records, champions, legends, histories, rules and analysis of the world of bare-knuckle boxing. Serves as an excellent reference source.

Author : Stayton Bonner
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1982650737
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bare Knuckle written by Stayton Bonner and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father. Fighter. Champion. Outlaw. Hailed as an “exhilarating debut” by Publishers Weekly, Bare Knuckle by former Rolling Stone editor Stayton Bonner (nominated for the Dan Jenkins Medal of Excellence in Sportswriting) takes readers into a previously unknown world: the underground circuit of illegal bare-knuckle fighting. Bare Knuckle is the remarkable true tale of Bobby Gunn, the 73–0 undisputed champion of bare-knuckle boxing. An inspiring underdog story that reads like a real-life Rocky. Bobby Gunn has been fighting for his existence since a childhood spent living under the hand of his volatile father, and would do anything to give his seven-year-old daughter a better life—including betting on himself in the underground world of bare-knuckle boxing. In 1984, Gunn was an eleven-year-old boxer in Ontario when his father woke him in the middle of the night to fight grown men in motel parking lots for money, his old man pocketing the cash. From there, Gunn traveled to Las Vegas, Tijuana, and beyond, competing in ringed matches as well as in biker bars and mobster dens on the side, brawling to make ends meet. But it was only with the birth of his daughter—and his desire to help her avoid his fate—that Gunn entered the big-time world of underground Russian-mob matches of up to $50,000 a night in New York City, hoping to finally raise his family above the fray. Former Rolling Stone editor Stayton Bonner travels the underground for years with Gunn, the world champion of bare-knuckle boxing with a 73–0 record, shining a light on a secret circuit that’s never before been revealed. Along the way, we explore the fascinating history of this first sport in America, Gunn’s Irish Traveler community—a sect of religious fighters best known through Brad Pitt’s depiction in Snatch—as well as his part in the improbable rise of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, the first legal revival of the sport. Bare Knuckle, a tale of triumph, loss, and a father’s love for his family, is a heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring story that will have you rooting until the end.

Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801462525
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Manly Art written by Elliott J. Gorn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterprise was illegal. But a generation later, toward the end of the century, the great John L. Sullivan of Boston had become the nation's first true sports celebrity, an American icon. The likes of poet Vachel Lindsay and novelist Theodore Dreiser lionized him—Dreiser called him 'a sort of prize fighting J. P. Morgan'—and Ernest Thompson Seton, founder of the Boy Scouts, noted approvingly that he never met a lad who would not rather be Sullivan than Leo Tolstoy."—from the Afterword to the Updated EditionElliott J. Gorn's The Manly Art tells the story of boxing's origins and the sport's place in American culture. When first published in 1986, the book helped shape the ways historians write about American sport and culture, expanding scholarly boundaries by exploring masculinity as an historical subject and by suggesting that social categories like gender, class, and ethnicity can be understood only in relation to each other.This updated edition of Gorn's highly influential history of the early prize rings features a new afterword, the author's meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century since the book was first published. An up-to-date bibliography ensures that The Manly Art will remain a vital resource for a new generation.

Author : Stayton Bonner
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316433144
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bare Knuckle written by Stayton Bonner and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Rolling Stone editor Stayton Bonner ventures inside America's secret illegal underground fight world - and meets its modern-day gladiators. Just when you think you've heard all the grizzled-fighter-taking-one-last-swing-at-redemption stories, along comes Bobby Gunn - the first bare-knuckle boxing champion in the U.S. in more than 120 years. Undefeated through 71 fights, Gunn, 42, rules the circuit, an underground network of pro boxers, mixed martial arts fighters and street brawlers who enter the ring without gloves in empty warehouses and mobster McMansions for as much as $50,000 a night. It's dangerous and bloody and illegal almost everywhere - a secret world run by organized crime. And for Gunn, a devout Christian journeyman boxer using the prize money to put his seven-year-old daughter through private school, it's his only shot at a better life. "Everybody wants to take me down, brother, and make a name for himself," he says. "I've gotta watch my back." Bare Knuckle is a fast-paced portrait of today's illegal underground bare-knuckle world - a Rocky story, only more bizarre, populated by street brawlers, mobsters, and a modern-day gladiator bent on upending America's first sport.

Author : Ulf Karlsson
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781648370984
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bare-Knuckle Boxer's Companion written by Ulf Karlsson and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comprehensive Guide to Bare-Knuckle Boxing Techniques Martial artists David Lindholm and Ulf Karlsson present this practical guide to learning and effectively applying the classic combative skill of bare-knuckle boxing in real-world situations. This age-old fighting practice, also known as pugilism, began long ago in Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire and developed over time into a precursor to the modern sport of boxing. Lindholm and Karlsson discuss the differences between the bare-knuckle approaches used by various historical teachers, and provide useful technical instruction on how to implement the strategies yourself. They cover stances, strikes, punches, kicks, counters, throws, and avoidance as well as essential components of training and conditioning. Studying these time-tested techniques and carefully practicing the patterns will allow you strike hard yet still protect your ungloved hands, and be able to do so in a variety of conditions and scenarios. The Bare-Knuckle Boxer's Companion is illustrated with hundreds of pictures depicting classical actions and poses, and is also rounded out with a superb bibliography of recommended historical source texts. This valuable guide is a must-have resource for any modern-day self-defense student, from beginners to experienced martial artists, as well as anyone interested in the history of fighting and boxing. This book is also available from Echo Point Books in paperback (ISBN 1648370993).

Author : Bob Mee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780952080749
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bare Fists written by Bob Mee and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its heyday, which spanned the mid-18th to the late-19th centuries, the bare-knuckle prize-fight was a wildly popular sport. With contests lasting hours and going into over 100 thrilling, punishing rounds, the sport drew crowds both common and elite-from royals and politicians to writers like Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope to Dickens and Thackaray, to the middle- and working-classes-all drawn together by the brutal excitement and the spirited wagering the sport generated. In Bare Fists, Bob Mee shows the fascinating evolution of bare-knuckle boxing, from the earliest days when there were no rules, to what was, for bare-knuckle fighting, the beginning of the end-the Marquess of Queensbury Rules, with their call for gloves and timed rounds. Rich in rare and exhilarating anecdote, Bare Fists recreates with thrilling immediacy all of the big bouts of the sport, including those of the legendary American champion of the 1880s, John L. Sullivan.

Author : Bartley Gorman
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468303104
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bareknuckle written by Bartley Gorman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As bareknuckle fighting is poised to steal MMA’s spotlight, its greatest modern-day champion tells his story of rising to the top in the brutal sport. Steeped in the tradition of his Irish Traveller ancestry, Bartley Gorman also embraced its dangerous subculture: bareknuckle fighting. Though it gave birth to boxing as we know it today, the sport has remained underground—and illegal in most developed countries. But that didn’t stop Gorman from rising through the prize-fighting ranks of Great Britain and Ireland and staying undefeated for twenty years. Now, through Gorman’s thrilling memoir, readers get a front row view of the punches exchanged in back parking lots and fair grounds, the gritty characters populating the fight circles, and the hazards facing a sought after champion. “A rare glimpse into a secret world,” Bareknuckle celebrates one man’s mastery of fighting in its purest form and heralds the rebirth of one of the oldest combat sports in history (The Independent on Sunday). “Every page shines. A tremendous book.” —Traveller Magazine “Well-written and interesting.” —Boxing News

Author : Bob Mee (Sportswriter)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bare Fists written by Bob Mee (Sportswriter) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bartley Gorman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954870744
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bare Knuckle Fighter written by Bartley Gorman and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stayton Bonner
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509848096
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bare Knuckle written by Stayton Bonner and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There’s only one champion of bare-knuckle boxing and that’s Bobby Gunn' Tyson Fury 'My people, traveling people, are pit bulls. It’s in the bloodline. We fight to survive.' Undefeated in seventy-one fights, Bobby Gunn, forty-two, is the undisputed world champion of bare-knuckle boxing. He rules the circuit, an underground nationwide network of pro boxers, mixed martial arts fighters and accomplished street brawlers who enter the ring without gloves in matches held in empty warehouses and mobster McMansions for as much as $50,000 a night. It's dangerous and bloody and illegal almost everywhere – a secret world run by organized crime. And for Gunn, a devout Christian journeyman boxer using the prize money to put his seven-year-old daughter through private school, it's his only shot at a better life. 'Everybody wants to take me down, brother, and make a name for himself,' he says. 'I've gotta watch my back.' Bare Knuckle by Stayton Bonner is a fast-paced portrait of today's illegal underground bare-knuckle world – a Rocky story, only more bizarre, populated by street brawlers, mobsters and a modern-day gladiator bent on dragging himself to glory.