This time last year it was still mostly just an idea, a promise, and a borderline laughable one at that. Longtime boxing promoter David Feldman kept going around and telling anyone who would listen that he was starting up a bare-knuckle boxing show – and it was going to be legit. As in, the knuckles would really be bare, rather than wrapped in tape or mostly covered in gloves.
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Don’t look now, but it’s 2019 and bare-knuckle boxing is … popular? – MMA Junkie