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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 ...
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.
Fury's father competed in the 1980s as "Gypsy" John Fury, [25] initially as a bare-knuckle and unlicensed boxer, and then as a professional boxer. [26] John had a professional record of 8–4–1, with one of his losses being to future WBO heavyweight world champion Henry Akinwande. [27]
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 ...
List of bare-knuckle lightweight champions This page was last edited on 3 October 2024, at 11:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Bare-knuckle boxing (also known as bare-knuckle or bare-knuckle fighting) is a full-contact combat sport based on punching without any form of padding on the hands. The sport as it is known today originated in 17th-century England and differs from street fighting as it follows an accepted set of rules.
McLean's first unlicensed boxing match came about as a result of a chance meeting while in his late teens. When his car broke down in the Blackwall Tunnel, he abandoned it and went to buy a replacement from an associate named Kenny Mac, a gypsy used-car salesman in Kingsland Road, Hackney, only to find the replacement quickly failed too. McLean ...
Patrick "Paddy" Doherty (born 1959), former bare-knuckle boxer. He is best known as one of the interviewed Irish Travelers in My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and the winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2011. [24] Hughie Maughan, runner-up of Big Brother 17, contestant on the Irish Dancing with the Stars [25] he also partook in First dates ireland