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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 and Thackaray, to the middle and working classes-all drawn together by the brutal excitement and the spirited wagering the sport generated. Much like gloved boxing today, average men could become superstars overnight, and they could lose the accolades and their health just as quickly.In Bare Fists, Bob Mee shows the fascinating evolution of bare- knuckle boxing, from the earliest days when there were no rules, to the introduction of the Broughton and London Prize Ring Rules, to what was, for bare-knuckle fighting, the beginning of the…
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- Title Bare Fists: The History of Bare-Knuckle Prize-Fighting
- Author Bob Mee
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 241
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harry N. Abrams, Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date May 17, 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781585671410 / 158567141X
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 1 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Boxers (Sports), Boxing - History - 19th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001021057
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.830
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