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State Library of New South Wales collection
The brutal world of bare-knuckle boxing was one where men would square up and give everything they got. The purest form of combat. Bare fists, guts, and glory. But with such brutality came the eventual outlawing of this once-prominent sport. Bare-knuckle boxing quickly became a thing of the past. Something that, if at all, we’d only hear about in movies.
So, what is it that we know about this game of fists and fury?