Known in the British press as the “most violent prisoner in Britain” and “Britain’s most notorious prisoner“, Charles Arthur “Charlie” Salvador (born 6th December 1952) also known as Charles Bronson is an infamous English criminal residing in Wakefield Prison, UK on a number of charges ranging from armed robbery; wounding (twice); wounding with intent; criminal damage; grievous bodily harm; false imprisonment (three times); blackmail and threatening to kill.

But outside his criminal career he also had a career in bare knuckle boxing. After being released for armed robbery in 1974, he started fighting in the East End of London on advice from London mobster Reggie Kray. He was given the stage name of Charles Bronson after the famous actor by his promoter despite never seeing any of the actors films.

Although most of the his criminal exploits are well known, the exact details of his underground boxing career still seem shrouded in mystery. In the following rare footage courtesy of Mirage Publishing, we get a look at the only known tape of Charlie Bronson boxing (although with gloves) at what is a described as a charity bout at the East End of London.

As one may have guessed, the boxing style of Bronson is pretty much that of a brawler and given that he was just released from prison he would have had alot of built up tension let out inside of the ring.

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After landing a series of vicious strikes in round one, Charlie follows his opponent to the floor in round two and starts unleashing some illegal ground and pound which causes much ruckus in the crowd and even results in a firearm entering inside of the boxing ring.

After the crowd and fighters are under control, Charlie is then disqualified to ease the angry crowd giving him an official loss for this charity bout. Charlie would return to prison shortly after his 69th day of freedom on January 7th 1988.