Question regarding transition from bare knuckle to gloves

RealDeal · Feb 20, 2018

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GlaukosTheHammer said: ↑

For sources go with the following:

Boxing: A Cultural History. Boxing: A Concise History. Boxing's Strangest Fights. and Bare Knuckle 1722-1889. Bare-Knuckle 1722-1889 would without a doubt be my first choice. Also, Boxrec and CBZ. Just start clicking on those champ's names and reading.

Kevin Smith's Black Genesis and Sundowners is pretty good for the black community but it is frustrating because it assumes you know what's going on in the rest of the world at the same time. So even when you have material on that you tend to read his then check with another book for the full perspective.

Finally, if there's more interest in 1720-1880 than the ancients I'll stop filling in the ancients for a while and do more LPRR focus on my own threads.

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/heavyweight-champions-from-ancient-to-present-wip.597272/

If you click on an ancient era it'll take you to a rules, equipment, and legends thread. I'll do the same for the English Era here in a bit, probably use quite a lot of this but I'll add to it the rules and other bits like what those sashes were all about, and you can't forget the steel cleats. Maybe grab a bit of the Lineal thread I did in General. Either way it's clear to me the forum is less interested in Theaganes than Cribb so I'll get on that and come back to the ancients. After I get Theaganes done, can't leave him out now that I've Euthymos, but once he's done I'll switch it up to LPRR years.
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Awesome! Thanks so much for all the information!

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