by willychichi » Thu Sep 24, 2015 2:49 pm
They just threw out the first rule of “Fight Club.”
A real-life, underground fight club is trying to take bare-knuckle boxing mainstream, with hopes of turning it into a multibillion-dollar industry.
Danny Provenzano, an ex-mobster who reduced his 30-year sentence to five years after taking a plea deal, believes the sport can be as big as UFC. “Bare-knuckle boxing requires a lot more skill than gloved boxing,” Provenzano said in an interview to the DailyMail. “You’ve got to make sure every punch counts, otherwise you’re going to break your hand.”
The sport was made illegal in the US in 1897 as gloves became popular. The underground sport touts the controversial notion that boxing gloves make the sport more dangerous and has supported the case for legalizing bare-knuckle boxing, as gloves allows for more blows to the head.
Read more:
http://nypost.com/2015/09/24/ex-mobster ... -next-ufc/
They just threw out the first rule of “Fight Club.”
A real-life, underground fight club is trying to take bare-knuckle boxing mainstream, with hopes of turning it into a multibillion-dollar industry.
Danny Provenzano, an ex-mobster who reduced his 30-year sentence to five years after taking a plea deal, believes the sport can be as big as UFC. “Bare-knuckle boxing requires a lot more skill than gloved boxing,” Provenzano said in an interview to the DailyMail. “You’ve got to make sure every punch counts, otherwise you’re going to break your hand.”
The sport was made illegal in the US in 1897 as gloves became popular. The underground sport touts the controversial notion that boxing gloves make the sport more dangerous and has supported the case for legalizing bare-knuckle boxing, as gloves allows for more blows to the head.
Read more: http://nypost.com/2015/09/24/ex-mobsters-plan-to-turn-seedy-fight-club-into-next-ufc/