Bare-knuckle means without gloves, bandages or any other protection for and/or dangerous 'arming' (such as a knuckle-duster) of the knuckles, a larger part or even the whole hand. It refers specifically to:
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Bare-knuckle boxing
Bare-knuckle boxing (or simply bare-knuckle) is a combat sport which involves two individuals throwing punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time without any boxing gloves or other form of padding on their hands. It is a regulated ...
, boxing without boxing gloves
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Bare Knuckles
''Bare Knuckles'' is a 1977 blaxploitation film, starring Robert Viharo, Sherry Jackson and Gloria Hendry. The film was written and directed by Don Edmonds.
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L.A. bounty hunter, Zachary Kane, is on the hunt for a masked serial killer on the ...
'', a 1977 American blaxploitation film directed by Don Edmonds
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''Bare Knuckles'' (1921 film), a 1921 American drama film directed by James P. Hogan
* ''Bare Knuckle'', the original Japanese name for the
''Streets of Rage'' series of video games
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Fighting in ice hockey
Fighting is an established tradition in North American ice hockey, with a long history that involves many levels of amateur and professional play and includes some notable individual fights. Fights may be fought by enforcers, or "goons" ()— ...
, in ice hockey rule books, fighting is referred to as "fisticuffs" as they fight without gloves, and is therefore "bare-knuckle"
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Vale tudo, a name for a form of no rules fighting from Brazil
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Bare Knuckle Pickups, a business that produces hand-wound guitar pickups in the United Kingdom
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