Bare knuckle boxing is an essential part of Gypsy (Irish traveler folk) culture and is a way to settle disputes between individuals or oftentimes entire families. Decent boxing technique is displayed in this lively scrap, especially when compared to most street fights. Both combatants at least know to keep their hands up.

The gentleman in the track pants (who is the smaller man) appears early on to be the superior fighter, using good in and out movement and displaying solid defensive skills.

At around 1:40, track pants lands a solid combination sending white t-shirt to the pavement. The cool thing about the Gypsy bare knuckle boxing scene is there is a lot of honor involved and has rules that are enforced. If someone gets dropped they are given a chance to recover and get back to their feet (ala Marquess of Queensberry rules seen in boxing).

The guy in the track pants starts teeing off shortly thereafter, landing big looping punches and yelling with each strike he throws. White t-shirt clinches up around 2:00 and lands a couple punches which is pretty much all the offense we’ve seen from him so far. It is clear at this point that track pants is the superior boxer/fighter. He is landing pretty much everything he throws and defending everything his opponent throws.

Want to shake hands? the referee asks which is Irish for asking them if they want to stop.

No! Track pants yells. He lands a big right hand shortly after that opens up white t-shirt. The fight ends after t-shirt lands a dirty shot following a break.

The organizers call it a draw and force them to shake hands. In gypsy fighting when there is no knockout the fight is called a draw automatically but it is obvious who got the better of whom in this one.