Street fighters

Ive known some great street fighters and I even met a guy years ago who was taken all around northern Ontario & Manitoba, he was from Sturgeon Falls Northern Ontario and it was just like Bronson's movie, only this guy was a real life Chaney.

anyway you combine meanstreet fighters and add to that TOP Level Proffesional Athlete Fitness, then you've got the Real Deal. Curiously though Not all street fighters have the athletic fitness, nor do all Pro Boxers have the Streetfighter Killer in them.

it's hard too imagine the two realities aren't a 'given' among Top Pro Boxers, but there not!

 

Google "Jeff Fenech assault"...

Talk to you in a couple days when you are done reading.

 

By all accounts Hasim Rahman was a bad ******* on the streets in his younger years.

 

John L Sullivan pretty much set the mold.

"I can lick any son of a ***** in the house," is the gold standard of belligerence.

 

You wouldn’t want to fight some of the guys from the bare-knuckle era, with a gun.

They used to pickle their hands in turpentine and other solutions, and in some cases punch trees to harden the bones. There were organised criminal gangs at the time, who specialised in robbing people attending prize fights, or gentlemen attending houses of ill repute. These people hired prize-fighters to protect them. If five men armed with clubs set upon you, a good bare-knuckle boxer, would literally take them apart with his bare hands. Merely showing his pickled hands, was often enough to deter them!

 

They don't come much meaner and more determined than Fenech. The fewer rules the better probably too.

 

John L would probably be just as effective against today's bare knuckle fighters as he was 100 years ago.

 

Bonavena.
"Sailor" Tom Sharkey.
Prime Foreman.
Mickey Walker.
Bennie Briscoe.
So many, really. That is just a few off the top of my head. Then there are the lethal little guys: Beau Jack, Joe Walcott, Azumah Nelson. They might be quite handy!

 

P4P on the street it's hard to go past Duran. I remember seeing a video of him years ago hitting a bag and he was mixing in some headbutts without even losing rhythm.

 

There is nobody today, that would have approached a world class bare-knuckle boxer in the 19th century!

 

I agree with you. Different animal all together.

 

Not even a prime Tyson ?

 

I agree to an extent but would say that were the money in it to bare knuckle, shoot fight or take their talents to the cobbles rather than the ring, guys like Vitali, Stiverne, Kovalev… or even back in the day Rahman, McCall, Lewis… would do very well. It's more about direction.

 

Tito Trinidad should be mentioned

 

Perhaps if he had been developed along those lines, but that is not what I am arguing.

The people who fight with bare knuckles today, are not anything approaching world class athletes. There is nobody around today like a Tom Cribb or Jem Mace. They are literally primeval creatures from a bygone era!