Have you ever ever seen the man in a combating stance on the Artwork of Manliness emblem? That’s not just a few random image; it’s an precise dude: John L. Sullivan, the best bare-knuckle boxer of the nineteenth century.
Whereas most individuals assume bare-knuckle boxing got here to an finish throughout Sullivan’s period, in actual fact, it by no means solely went away. In his new e-book, Naked Knuckle: Bobby Gunn, 73–0 Undefeated. A Dad. A Dream. A Struggle Like You’ve By no means Seen, Stayton Bonner charts bare-knuckle boxing’s rise, fall, and resurgence, in addition to the inconceivable story of its fashionable chapter’s winningest champion. At the moment on the present, Stayton describes bare-knuckle boxing’s unbelievable reputation a century in the past, and why gloved boxing took its place whereas bare-knuckle acquired pushed right into a shadowy, illicit underground. Stayton takes us into that secret circuit which nonetheless exists in the present day, revealing the darkish, sweaty basements and bars the place fashionable bare-knuckle fights happen and the traditional code of honor that constructions them. And Stayton introduces us to a dominant determine in that world, Bobby Gunn, an undefeated bare-knuckle fighter who combines a love of religion, household, and combating and has helped flip bare-knuckle boxing into what’s now the world’s fastest-growing fight sport.
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