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Inside bloody return of US bare-knuckle boxing
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“I’m the boss. I’m the boss. I’m the boss,” says Bobby Gunn, the defending champion of bare-knuckle boxing.
He is repeating a mantra from the film Raging Bull to himself just moments before taking the stage for the first legal, state-sanctioned gloveless fighting event in U.S. history. “Come on, big f*cker—let’s go.”
He is repeating a mantra from the film Raging Bull to himself just moments before taking the stage for the first legal, state-sanctioned gloveless fighting event in U.S. history. “Come on, big f*cker—let’s go.”
Walking out to Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” in front of a screaming sold-out crowd of 2,000 beer-drinking, cowboy-hat-wearing locals at the Cheyenne Ice and Events Center on the outskirts of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Gunn, 44, takes the stage.
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He's squaring off against his younger and larger opponent, Irineu Beato Costa, Jr., a heavyweight boxer from Sau Paulo, Brazil.
Standing just feet apart, Gunn and Costa raise their fists in a blood-stained steel circular ring built for this event, a striking image in U.S. sports history: no boxing gloves.
“Knuckle up!” one of the two referees yells.
Gunn, long used to fighting bare knuckle in underground illegal brawls with no time limits, is now forced to take a more aggressive approach in the event’s fast-paced two-minute rounds.
Charging Costa, he throws a penetrating left hook to the liver, dropping him within seconds. After Costa manages a wobbly rise, Gunn then rushes him again, this time going for the kill -- another deep shot to the liver topped by a final overhand right hook to the temple as he falls.
The crowd roars. Costa lies crumpled on the ring. The fight is over. More
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