Are We Onboard With Bareknuckle Boxing?

Agreed.

 

BK is more 'real boxing' than Queensberry is.

 

Watching Perry vs Luke, and also just seeing the general havoc that bare knuckles cause, it genuinely makes me wonder how differently the hierarchy of fighting would change if all boxing or mma fights were bare knuckle.

Wouldn't be surprising if the best boxers and mma fighters currently, wouldn't be Top of the food chain in a more natural fight context such as no gloves.

Also how many fights would look completely different had they been bare knuckle.

Idk I find the thought interesting and I definitely see the appeal of cutting through some of the facades that get created by using gloves.

It's also pretty brutal. The fighters almost always get pretty damaged.

I remember when UFC first came on to the scene it was kinda seen as this brutal and raw sport that most people would think twice about participating in.

Now it seems to me that BK is that now.

 

Since companies often keep PPV buys secret these days, and you can't trust illegal stream reports (for whatever its worth, its reported there were over 700k illegal streams of Perry vs Rockhold), the most reliable data metric one can go by to use to see if something is popular or not is how many people watch it on YouTube, because the numbers are there to easily verify.

Perry vs Page was put on YouTube a month ago and and got a little over 2 million views.

For comparison, Haney vs Loma was put up 3 weeks ago, (one week later) and has a million less views.

In fact, BKs Mendes vs I have no idea who, has 1.9 million views in a month.



I'm just not sure how much fact there is in saying there's no market for it.

It's also not the worst of both worlds. It's something quite different entirely.

Not having pillows on your fists completely change the nature of boxing. And for a lot of people it makes the sport more real and even more respectable.


But what I'd really love to hear is how its 'goofy'.

It not being appealing to someone, I can get that. It was an acquired taste for me so I definitely understand.

But goofy? That makes no sense.

It makes boxing look like a choir boy sport in comparison, imo. These guys are as legit warriors as they get, imo.

I dont get what part of this is goody though...

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What will hold BK back isn't that there's not a market for it... but the raw brutality nature of the sport will likely make it an unappealing venture for quality fighters nearer their primes, and the sport is not conducive to longevity. These things will stifle its growth.