We see that at the very beginning they were iffy about letting us do it, but now it's totally acceptable in a lot of venues in the UK.

Bare-boxing is associated with travellers, especially in Ireland where they're not allowing [fights] at the moment. The real reason for the feud among the families is never revealed, as they will not talk about it to outsiders.If you really want to know more about just the man and some details about his fighting and his mindset about those fights then you should enjoy this book but it does miss out a few details from the film. After being sent to the hospital to extract the bullet, he had to leave Ireland for fear of his life. There are many men out there at the moment - very good men - who could claim to be the 'King of the Travellers' but don't do it because, number one, it sets you up for being challenged for the foreseeable future.

Knuckle is a 2011 Irish documentary film about the secretive world of Irish Traveller bare-knuckle boxing.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The money would drive it further because the guy that lost the fight would have probably given up earlier, only for the money. This film follows 12 years in the lives of three Irish Traveller families (Joyces, Nevins, and Quinn-McDonaghs) and their bitter feuds and fights. The film explores the reasons why they hold these fights and explores in-depth these families' secret life, which is barely known to outsiders of the Traveller community.