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Knuckle is a 2011 Irish documentary film about the secretive world of Irish Traveller bare-knuckle boxing. The film was made in stages over 12 years. The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. [1] [2] This film follows a history of violent feuding between rival clans.
Snatch (2000) — a film featuring Brad Pitt as a comically stereotyped "Pikey" and rogue, who is also a bare-knuckle boxing champion. [7] He is portrayed as having a deep love of his mother and family, in keeping with true life Traveller traditions, which place great emphasis upon family.
Patrick Doherty (born 6 February 1959) is an Irish Traveller who is a former bare-knuckle boxer. He is best known as one of the stars of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men. He won Celebrity Big Brother 8. He appeared in When Paddy Met Sally in January 2012 and on Celebrity Bainisteoir later that year.
Bare-knuckle boxing went into remission for centuries, later reemerging in England in the 1600s before crossing to America two hundred years later and producing the first US champion, Tom ...
Simon Byrne (1806 – 2 June 1833), nicknamed "The Emerald Gem", was an Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter. The heavyweight boxing champion of Ireland, he was drawn to England by the larger sums of prize money on offer and his hopes of becoming the heavyweight champion there as well. He became one of only six fighters ever to have been involved ...
Molineaux was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1997. [23] In 2010, Molineaux was inducted into the Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame. [24] In 2017, a documentary film Ag Trasnú an Atlantaigh Dhuibh (Crossing the Black Atlantic), directed by Des Kilbane and Andrew Gallimore, premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh. [25]
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Dornálaíocht is the Irish word for boxing, dorn meaning fist. The style or stance used in dornálaíocht, a form of bare-knuckle boxing, is sometimes reflected in Irish caricatures such as that of the Notre Dame Leprechaun. [citation needed] The lead hand stays at a greater distance from the body than in modern boxing.