Is barenkuclee that brutal really?

**RurikGreenwulf** · Posted On: 8/03/2012 10:55am

Originally Posted by battlefields

henceforth, barenkuclee is the new name for bare-knuckle boxing.

I have decreed it so.

wahts? Me enhglish be pereftc!!!

**KickPuncher** · Posted On: 8/03/2012 11:05am

"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

**Permalost** · Posted On: 8/03/2012 1:07pm

Originally Posted by article

“In 100 years of bare-knuckle fighting in the United States, which terminated around 1897 with a John L Sullivan heavyweight championship fight, there wasn’t a single ring fatality. Today, there are three or four every year in the US, and around 15 per cent of professional fighters suffer some form of permanent brain damage during their career.”

I don't like the explanation that there are fewer deaths therefore bareknuckle is safer; there are so many reasons this can be true; I'm guessing this has something to do with it:

***WhiteShark*** · Posted On: 8/03/2012 1:21pm

I think this guy is a little high on his own ideas. In the "championship" fight he posted his opponent looks terrible. I also can't fathom why they both head hunted in a bare knuckle fight.

**Mr. Machette** · Posted On: 8/03/2012 1:41pm

Barenkuclee is +#3 8RU+413$+xorxorz!!!!!

**Permalost** · Posted On: 8/03/2012 2:01pm

I'll bet a good Greco Roman wrestler could beat Gunn for the bareknuckle title, via repeated throws on an unforgiving surface.

**Vieux Normand** · Posted On: 8/03/2012 2:21pm

Originally Posted by Bneterasedmynam

I would think there would be a greater chance of concusion with bare knuckle though.

On what basis do you think this? A concussion is a deep-tissue injury. Deep-tissue injuries are easier to inflict when your own surface areas are protected (as in American football). Why would boxing-versus-bareknuckle show any difference in this regard?

**Rivington** · Posted On: 8/03/2012 3:08pm

Didn't Baren Kucklee invent the sandwich or something?

**ermghoti** · Posted On: 8/03/2012 3:12pm

Originally Posted by Permalost

I don't like the explanation that there are fewer deaths therefore bareknuckle is safer; there are so many reasons this can be true; I'm guessing this has something to do with it:

Plus drastically increased nutrition and conditioning. When barenkuclee boxing was in vogue, a four minute mile was believed mathematically and physically impossible.