Here’s a hard fought battle on a basketball court. One guy gets dropped with a crazy good shot.

It looks like both of them have a little bit of boxing experience. Not a ton, but some for sure. The smaller guy might have a tiny bit more. He doesn’t lift his chin when he throws punches and he puts his guard up well when being attacked. He also puts his head down when dealing with punches.

The taller fighter is much taller and has a much longer reach, but he lifts his chin when he throws punches. Will it be a problem in this fight? Let’s take a look.

The taller fighter tries to use his reach with a ton of jabs. The shorter fighter does a decent job of defending; decent head movement and okay footwork.

Problems happen for the shorter fighter when he takes a right hook across the top of his head. He starts to fall as the taller fighter is still swinging.

There isn’t any ground fighting or clinching in this fight; they are using be bare-knuckle boxing rules.

It kind of looks like the shorter fighter was emotionally beaten as well. Yes, he was hit with that right hook but if you watch as he tries to get back up, it looks like he’s hesitant. Maybe he just didn’t want any more from the taller fighter.

While boxing has always included punching, historically it also included grappling techniques like throws, arm locks, chokes as well as kicks. These techniques were banned during the several rule changes which turned classical pugilism, or bare knuckle boxing, into the modern sport of boxing.

Professional bouts are now held, created and managed by the World Bareknuckle Boxing Association which itself is not recognized as a sports organization anywhere outside of the United States. Any tournaments are illegal and/or unregulated in most countries today. However, in the British Isles where the sports are still very popular there are efforts for the sport to be brought out of the underground and into the mainstream. [source : wiki]