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KNUCKLE UP: A brief history of bare-knuckle boxing and a BKFC 5 preview

April 5, 2019

Bare knuckle boxing is exactly what it sounds like, boxing without gloves. The first documented report of a bare-knuckle fight comes from 1681, and it involved a footman for an English duke and a butcher. […]

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