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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: bradistani on March 06, 2012, 09:48:42 AM
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caught this late last night. well more like early this morning as i was just getting ready for bed. absolutely brilliant. shows us the rather intriguing rivalries and bullshit between various gypo families. and even though the fights we see on youtube look like rowdy, disorganised brawls. well, they're not!! rules, referees and big money as well as clan hatred. 5/5
Storyville: Knuckle - Bare Fist Fighting
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More "My Big Fat Gypsy Punch-Up" than Raging Bull, this engrossing documentary nonetheless gives an insight into Irish Traveller culture and the secret world of bare-knuckle boxing. Director Ian Palmer was first asked to record a single fight for a bit of extra cash, but ended up filming on-and-off for 12 years. Taking place down country lanes and in car parks, bouts see men from rival clans slugging it out until one gives up or is knocked out - and while some are over in seconds, one goes on for over two hours. The main contenders are James Quinn McDonagh and his younger brother Michael, and Palmer reveals how fighting is bound up with their sense of family identity and loyalty; the Quinn McDonaghs and two other clans, the Joyces and the Nevins, have been feuding for years. Their home-made videos goading each other to fight are highly entertaining - but there's tragedy behind the bravado. A palpable weight of expectation hangs over "King of the Gypsies" James, who, ironically, comes across as rather a sensitive soul. It's all a little rough and ready, and by its nature rather repetitive, but as a look inside a normally hidden part of an already insular culture, Knuckle packs a genuine punch.
Plot Summary
Documentary examining the secretive world of bare-knuckle boxing among Ireland's travellers over the course of 12 years. The film focuses on a long-running feud between two rival families, and a series of brutal bouts that takes place between members of the two clans.
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lol I caught about 15 minutes of that last night, and my mate showed me some from last week? Don't know if it's the same thing but somebody got bottled then stabbed in the neck
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the one last week is part of some sort of series on gypos. like the 'big fat gypsie wedding' sort of shit.
last night was a one off proper documentary filmed over so many years. it was on pretty late on bbc4.
i didn't see the first 40 minutes or so, so not sure about any stabbing.
there's an irish getbigger who's married to a jap. i remember him saying that rather he or a mate was in some sore of documentary coming on soon. he hasn't posted in a while so i wonder if one of these were it ???
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Looks good!
Will download
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Lot of gypsies on this board.
How come that british people are brown and gyps are white while in Austria it's vice versa.
Uk - wake up. :D
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the one last week is part of some sort of series on gypos. like the 'big fat gypsie wedding' sort of shit.
last night was a one off proper documentary filmed over so many years. it was on pretty late on bbc4.
i didn't see the first 40 minutes or so, so not sure about any stabbing.
there's an irish getbigger who's married to a jap. i remember him saying that rather he or a mate was in some sore of documentary coming on soon. he hasn't posted in a while so i wonder if one of these were it ???
yeah it was last weeks one with the stabbing. the guy who bottled then attacked somebody with the smashed neck of the bottle, ended up getting fucked up badly with machetes and bats. the bit I caught last night was the organised fight between the older guy in the picture and somebody else, probably about 11ish
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I saw this a few months ago. Pretty good.
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yeah it was last weeks one with the stabbing. the guy who bottled then attacked somebody with the smashed neck of the bottle, ended up getting fucked up badly with machetes and bats. the bit I caught last night was the organised fight between the older guy in the picture and somebody else, probably about 11ish
i'll have to try and see this.. fucking gypos..
there's still a pub or two in bradford that have signs saying 'no travellers'. used to be real bad back in the 80s & 90s
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Jesus wept..... :'(
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The travellers love their boxing
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watched it last night
had two laugh at the two old fat guys
one of them tried to bite the others ear off they were both about 60
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bare knuckle boxing.
really stupid IMO unless both guys are twinks.
human skull can only take so much force before it cracks. eye socket, jaw, nose.. pretty vulnerable and will leave you fucked up for a good while.
but i guess if these guys have been doing it for so long.. they all must be twinks.
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watched it last night
had two laugh at the two old fat guys
one of them tried to bith the others ear off they were both about 60
lol yes. the big mouth with the tache seemed like a right shit stirrer and is probably the cause of all the feuding..
can you imagine their world of 24/7 feuding and fighting :-\
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lol yes. the big mouth with the tache seemed like a right shit stirrer and is probably the cause of all the feuding..
can you imagine their world of 24/7 feuding and fighting :-\
That old guy is Big Joe Joyce. Has been calling himself "King of the Travellers" for years and years and has loads of fake belts and titles that he got made up himself, check out some videos of him sparring with his kids and stuff on youtube. He's a lunatic but not a good boxer
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Those pikeys sure know how to fight!... :-\.
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That old guy is Big Joe Joyce. Has been calling himself "King of the Travellers" for years and years and has loads of fake belts and titles that he got made up himself, check out some videos of him sparring with his kids and stuff on youtube. He's a lunatic but not a good boxer
god, it'd be fucking great if he posted on here. though i doubt he can read or write. but if he could.. getting him to meltdown would be a piece of piss. he'd be fully booked up with fights for the next twenty years. he'd turn up too 8)
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god, it'd be fucking great if he posted on here. though i doubt he can read or write. but if he could.. getting him to meltdown would be a piece of piss. he'd be fully booked up with fights for the next twenty years. he'd turn up too 8)
did you see him curling the 5lb dumbells and claiming he had two stone in each hand
he would fit right in here
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god, it'd be fucking great if he posted on here. though i doubt he can read or write. but if he could.. getting him to meltdown would be a piece of piss. he'd be fully booked up with fights for the next twenty years. he'd turn up too 8)
lol, man. He is an IRL troll, look at this vid for example:
There's another vid of him lifting db's while talking shit in a garage but I can't find it
GO TO 2:20!!!
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bare knuckle boxing.
really stupid IMO unless both guys are twinks.
human skull can only take so much force before it cracks. eye socket, jaw, nose.. pretty vulnerable and will leave you fucked up for a good while.
but i guess if these guys have been doing it for so long.. they all must be twinks.
The exact opposite! Strong punchers don't punch in the face because it can shatter the puncher's hand, also the fights are over quickly because the fighters can't get but a few good punches and they are out.
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did you see him curling the 5lb dumbells and claiming he had two stone in each hand
he would fit right in here
lol yes I can't find that one
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did you see him curling the 5lb dumbells and claiming he had two stone in each hand
he would fit right in here
haha.. no. the fella is comedy gold. i bet right now he's tearing it up somewhere or plotting his next bout.
i might make a call out video claiming to be englands hardest man. call him a fucking chicken and challenge him saying i'll slap him to death. his video response should be epic
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The exact opposite! Strong punchers don't punch in the face because it can shatter the puncher's hand, also the fights are over quickly because the fighters can't get but a few good punches and they are out.
that makes some sense. tho ive seen many videos of hits where the skull gives out before the fist does.
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lol, man. He is an IRL troll, look at this vid for example:
There's another vid of him lifting db's while talking shit in a garage but I can't find it
GO TO 2:20!!!
sparring in his 'championship' belt. then it falls off.. you can't make this shit up ;D
joe joyce - king of the fighters and honorary getbigger
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sparring in his 'championship' belt. then it falls off.. you can't make this shit up ;D
joe joyce - king of the fighters and honorary getbigger
;D ;D ;D