Brutal world of bare-knuckle boxing where warriors tear each other apart for in front of their ‘flipping out’ WAGs
Their battered faces are bleeding and shiny with sweat, their naked torsos covered in red wheals where violent punches have landed.
The crowd, all over-18, have paid from £35 to £70 for seats. There are more men than women but plenty of both.Credit: �Andrew McCarenHours before the fights begin, the fighters arrive for a weigh-in on a pair of simple bathroom scales, then undergo a medical and mandatory drug testing via mouth swabs.
“Bare-knuckle fighters like Ben are brave men, and the nerves you get at an event like this are off the scale compared with gloved boxing,” Mark says.Matty Talbott bloodied after losing his bout to Ben Croft“It’s the true test of a warrior. Can you control your mind - because it’s not just about the fighting? Can you control your nerves enough to perform, knowing the dangers involved?
When Ben told his 25-year-old girlfriend Billie Jean Wright, a barber, that he was planning to fight bare-knuckle, she was so upset that she refused to speak to him. “I’ve been doing this at weekends for three years now and I love it. It’s good fun – as long as you don’t mind blood!” she says.Credit: ©Andrew McCarenCredit: �Andrew McCarenBare-knuckle boxing is big business for ex-con Shaun Smith, the UK’s top bare-knuckle boxing promoter who, together with his wife Amanda, owns Ultimate Bare-Knuckle Boxing.
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