Bare-Knuckle Brawls (a.k.a. People Gladly Getting Together to Smack the Crap Out of Each Other)

Share on Facebook posted 04-08-09 by Angelo D'Argenio

You can find bare-knuckle fights everywhere, and believe it or not, they aren’t simply fights of passion on the street. People seem to gladly get together simply for the chance to beat the living crap out of each other, Fight Club-style, and evidence of this phenomenon can be found all over the Net.

Dojo Mojo

What’s the best place to find bare-knuckle fighting in the real world? Dojos. This is where you find the cream of the crop. Many martial arts dojos shun the use of pads in favor of a more traditional style of hand-to-hand engagement applicable in the real world. This means that mixed martial arts sparring can get extremely violent, especially when you have bare flesh contacting other bear flesh. On the flip side, however, this is where you will see instinct and skill squaring off at their best.

The Ignorance of Youth

Another great place to find bare knuckle fighting? High schools. We have all been there before; high schools are the proving grounds of the adolescent bonehead who thinks he can take just about anything and anyone. The result is something that looks a lot less like a fight and a lot more like two people flailing at each other for dear life. A difference between real fights and fights in movies is that you rarely see hair pulling, biting, or any form of slap-punching in the movies. However, in real life, anything goes, and that means that most of these fights are … unpleasant at best. Hey, don’t look at me; I was on the chess team.

The Fighting Irish

The easiest place to find bare-knuckle fighting exhibitions tends to be in parking lots or backyards of people who think they know how to fight. Give someone enough drinks, and he will be more than happy to swing away at anyone who dares to challenge him. This guy, who dubbed himself the Fighting Irish, posted a video online daring all who were brave enough to come and try to knock him out. The result: Video upon video of drunken backyard brawls with crowds of people watching. Yeah, it may be a stereotype that drunken Irishmen tend to fight a lot, and it may be a shame that this guy is reinforcing it, but that doesn’t change the fact that the fights themselves are plain old bare-knuckle fun.