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Ramrod
14-06-2005, 14:13
Interesting stuff (http://ejmas.com/jmanly/articles/2001/jmanlyart_gorn_0401.htm).........Seems like society has become better :erm:


The "trifling and ridiculous" reasons for these fights had an unreal quality for the matter-of-fact Yankee. Not assaults on persons or property but slights, insults, and thoughtless gestures set young southerners against each other.......The emphasis on maximum disfigurement, on severing bodily parts, made this fighting style unique. Amid the general mayhem, however, gouging out an opponentââ‚à ƒâ€šÃ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s eye became the sine qua non of rough-and-tumble fighting, much like the knockout punch in modern boxing............

danielf
14-06-2005, 14:24
Combatants boasted, howled, and cursed. As words gave way to action, they tripped and threw, gouged and butted, scratched and choked each other. "But what is worse than all," Isaac Weld observed, "these wretches in their combat endeavor to their utmost to tear out each otherââ‚ƚ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s testicles." :erm:

punky
14-06-2005, 14:32
Haven't got time to read it all, but it doesn't sound much different to the "all-in" street fights that Lenny McClean and Roy Shaw used to. Like in that article, the practice is very gypsy/traveller subscribed here too.

Ramrod
14-06-2005, 14:43
Haven't got time to read it all, but it doesn't sound much different to the "all-in" street fights that Lenny McClean and Roy Shaw used to. Like in that article, the practice is very gypsy/traveller subscribed here too.The difference here being that the combatants actively tried to gouge out eyes and bite off ears in those days.

budwieser
14-06-2005, 20:10
Lenny McClean and Roy Shaw used to break jaws and heads with one punch,
No real fighters about anymore then?

Flubflow
14-06-2005, 20:37
Lenny McClean and Roy Shaw used to break jaws and heads with one punch,
No real fighters about anymore then?

Naffink loyke a bit ov da auld Essex Windmilling den?

Ramrod
14-06-2005, 20:54
Lenny McClean and Roy Shaw used to break jaws and heads with one punch,
No real fighters about anymore then?Big, bad & ugly (http://www.bigbadugly.com/) :D