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Bare Knuckle

Author : Stayton Bonner
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1982650737
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (826 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.

Bare Fists

Author : Bob Mee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780002189668
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Bare Fists written by Bob Mee and published by . This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text takes a look at the forgotten world of bare-knuckle prize-fighting, from the heyday of pugilism in the 18th century, to its extinction at the end of the 19th, and its re-emergence this century in the form of illegal underground bouts.

The Bare-Knuckle Boxer's Companion

Author : Ulf Karlsson
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781648370984
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 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).

Championship Streetfighting

Author : Ned Beaumont
Publisher : Paladin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873649346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Championship Streetfighting written by Ned Beaumont and published by Paladin Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your fists are your primary weapon system in a streetfight, but most martial arts "masters" like to gloss over that fact. Now fisticuffs expert Ned Beaumont shows you how to duke it out in back alleys and smoky bars and walk away grinning (with all your teeth). All the dirty tricks of boxing are included, too. Not for the faint of heart, this one is destined to become a classic.

The Legends of Bare-knuckle Boxing

Author : Patrick White
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519549396
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (493 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.

Bare Knuckle Fighter

Author : Bartley Gorman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954870744
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 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:

The Manly Art

Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801462525
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 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.

King of the Gypsies

Author : Bartley Gorman with Peter Walsh
Publisher : Milo Books Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book King of the Gypsies written by Bartley Gorman with Peter Walsh and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bare-Knuckle Britons and Fighting Irish

Author : Adam Chill
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476630283
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Bare-Knuckle Britons and Fighting Irish written by Adam Chill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxing was phenomenally popular in 18th and 19th century Britain. Aristocrats attended matches and patronized boxers, and the most important fights drew tens of thousands of spectators. Promoters of the sport claimed that it showcased the timeless and authentic ideal of English manhood--a rock of stability in changing times. Yet many of the best fighters of the era were Irish, Jewish or black. This history focuses on how boxers, journalists, politicians, pub owners and others used national, religious and racial identities to promote pugilism and its pure English pedigree, even as ethnic minorities won distinction in the sport, putting the diversity of the Empire on display.

GYPSY JOE

Author : Joe Smith
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1909270628
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book GYPSY JOE written by Joe Smith and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-10-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsy Joe is not only a story of redemption, but an uplifting account of a young gypsy determined to realize his dream. Joe Smith tells of his formative years travelling the country in a caravan and how he encountered crushing prejudice when his extraordinary talents as a golf boy prodigy became apparent.Disillusioned, he recounts a downward spiral and a life of criminality before pulling back from the brink and making the most of his life.The Observer selected the book as their Sports Book of the Year 2009 saying: "e;One of the best golf books written this year; although the cheque books come out for the scandal, this true story of thwarted ambition, criminality, violence and redemption has substance. A courageous story shot through with intelligence and humanity."e;"e;What comes across in this book is family loyalty, raw courage and violence but there is also intelligence and humanity."e;Chris Blackhurst -- Evening Standard, 23 June 2009

Knuckle

Author : James Quinn McDonagh
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007448279
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Knuckle written by James Quinn McDonagh and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish travellers live in a closed community. What we think we know about them is based on hearsay, rumour and stereotype. But not any more.

The Life and Crimes of John Morrissey

Author : Kenneth Bridgham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949783025
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Crimes of John Morrissey written by Kenneth Bridgham and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1855, New York City was scandalized by one of the most infamous murders in its history, that of gang leader Bill "the Butcher" Poole, the feared knife-fighter who later would inspire Daniel Day-Lewis's character in Martin Scorsese's film The Gangs of New York. The acknowledged mastermind in the Butcher's undoing was John Morrissey, a two-fisted Irish immigrant who, more than any other man of the age, represented the nefarious links between organized crime, politics, sports, and high finance in America. The loose inspiration behind Leonardo DiCaprio's character in The Gangs of New York, he was an undefeated bareknuckle prize-fighter, widely recognized as the national champion, as well as a feared gangster and mob boss before either term was coined, rumored leader of the Dead Rabbits street gang, and eventually U.S. Congressman and member of the New York state senate. He became the millionaire operator of some of the world's most opulent gambling halls, and was the founder of the Saratoga thoroughbred racecourse. Equally comfortable hobnobbing with pimps, cut-throats, and thieves as he was with Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant, or railroad tycoons like Cornelius Vanderbilt, the once impoverished street kid rose to a level of wealth and power unprecedented for Irish Americans to that point in the nation's history.The culmination of eight years of research, The Life and Crimes of John Morrissey is the most in-depth biography ever published about one of the nineteenth century's most notorious men. Drawing from the original newspaper accounts, as well as the memoirs of men who knew him, this is the true tale of gang wars and bloody riots in the notorious Five Points slum, a high-seas mutiny near Panama, bare-knuckle brawls in Canada and California, neck-and-neck horse races in Saratoga, million-dollar wagers on Wall Street, and back-room deals in Washington D.C. that encompass the short but daring life of John Morrissey.

Bareknuckle

Author : Bartley Gorman
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468303104
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 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

Bare Knuckles & Saratoga Racing

Author : Brien Bouyea
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143965624X
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Bare Knuckles & Saratoga Racing written by Brien Bouyea and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the incomparable life of boxing and Saratoga Race Course legend John Morrissey. John "Old Smoke" Morrissey was one of the most dynamic characters of his time. He went from a career as an undefeated bare-knuckle boxer, founded the Saratoga Race Course and eventually won elections to Congress and the New York State Senate. A poor, uneducated Irish immigrant, Morrissey became a leader in the Dead Rabbits street gang. He won fame as a fighter and fortune as the operator of a string of successful gambling houses. Morrissey then took Saratoga Springs by storm, improbably resurrecting thoroughbred racing during the Civil War and opening his famous Club House, which was the most glamorous casino the country had ever seen. Author and National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame director of communications Brien Bouyea takes you on this fascinating journey and shows just how Morrissey did it all.

Wayne Barker

Author : Bernard O'Mahoney
Publisher : Harvill Secker
ISBN 13 : 9781780575971
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Wayne Barker written by Bernard O'Mahoney and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former professional boxer Wayne Barker fought every man who ever challenged him. This brutally honest account of his eventful life recounts how he was left in the care of the travelling community, where he learned to fight, how he was charged with attempting to murder a child killer, and how he fled to America. Eventually deported to Britain, he served two years in prison before returning to the streets to earn a living from bare-knuckle fighting, until cancer claimed his life in 2012.

Bare Knuckle

Author : Stayton Bonner
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509848096
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 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.

Bare Knuckle

Author : Stayton Bonner
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316433136
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (331 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 2018-05-01 with total page 256 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.