(Free and download) Bare Fists: The History of Bare Knuckle Prize Fighting
❀ Bob Mee ❀
| #2082792 in Books | Overlook Hardcover | 2001-05-21 | 2001-05-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .98 x6.28 x9.25l,.0 | File Name: 158567141X | 241 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Informative, entertaining, and enjoyable.|By Katheryn Maddox Haddad|This book gave good insights into the everyday life of these fringe boxers who polite society did not openly approve of but whose gentlemen sneaked off to watch, even following them when the police broke up a match just to be resumed in the middle of a field. Undaunted. It had a life of its own. I am a woman|From Publishers Weekly|Focusing on the gloveless champions that dominated the early history of the sport from the early 18th-century English fighter James Figg through American John L. Sullivan in the late 19th Mee (Lords of the Ring, etc.) provides well-resear
In its heyday, which spanned the mid 18th to the late 19th centuries, the bare-knuckle prize-fight was a wildly popular sport which, as gloved boxing does now, produced some extraordinary characters and legendary bouts, both in Britain and the United States. 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 a...
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