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List of bare-knuckle boxers is an aggregate of articles pertaining to boxers that fought either all or part of their careers as bare-knuckle boxers
BKFC UK hosts its matches in a distinctive circular four-rope ring, colloquially known as the "Squared Circle." The Squared Circle uniquely features two scratch lines, placed three feet apart at the center, a nod to the historic Broughton Rules (particularly the London Prize Ring Rules) that once governed 19th-century bare-knuckle fighting.
The record for the longest bare-knuckle fight is listed as 6 hours and 15 minutes for a match between James Kelly and Jonathan Smith, fought near Fiery Creek in Australia on December 3, 1855, when Smith gave in after 17 rounds. [9] The bare-knuckle fighter Jem Mace is listed as having the longest professional career of any fighter in history. [10]
Tom Sayers (15 or 25 May [1] 1826 – 8 November 1865) was an English bare-knuckle prize fighter. There were no formal weight divisions at the time, and although Sayers was only five feet eight inches tall and never weighed much more than 150 pounds, he frequently fought much bigger men.
James "Jem" Mace (8 April 1831 – 30 November 1910) was an English boxing champion, primarily during the bare-knuckle era. He was born at Beeston, Norfolk. Although nicknamed "The Gypsy", he denied Romani ethnicity in his autobiography. Fighting in England, at the height of his career between 1860 and 1866, he won the English Welterweight ...
In 1882, at age twenty-three, he defeated reigning bare-knuckle champ Paddy Ryan for $5,000 in a makeshift ring in Mississippi City, a resort town on the Gulf Coast, becoming the most famous man ...
William Abednego Thompson (11 October 1811 – 23 August 1880), also known Bendigo Thompson, was an English bare-knuckle boxer who won the heavyweight championship of England from James Burke on 12 February 1839. [3]
Bartley Gorman V (1 March 1944 – 18 January 2002) was a British bare-knuckle boxer. Born in England to Irish Travellers, Gorman called himself "the King of the Gypsies". [1] Between 1972-92, he reigned supreme in the world of illegal gypsy boxing.