00:02
COMM: We're gonna take bare-knuckle out of
the back alley and into a billion dollar industry.
00:13
COMM: At a secret location on the East coast
of America, two men go fist to fist in the
brutal underground sport of bare-knuckle boxing.
00:35
COMM: Bobby Gunn is considered to be the best
bare-knuckle boxer in the world.
00:46
COMM: He's teamed up with promoter Danny Provenzano
to take the brutal sports from the back streets
to the big time, and sure enough today, Bobby
takes no prisoners.
01:00
DANNY: That's its, that's it. No fight.
01:02
DREYTON: He actually hit me right here at
first, if he had boxing gloves on I would
definitely have told somebody to check his
gloves because he hits hard. That was a punch,
dog!
01:10
BOBBY: I have caused people serious harm,
to people that are trying to cause me serious
harm. Show me the rulebook for street fighting,
there's no rulebook. In a streetlight I can
bit your nose, your ear off your face, I can
stick my thumb in your eye. Bare-knuckle boxing,
is a sport. There's no hatred like that. I've
been warned all my life you can be killed
in a boxing ring, it's a dangerous business.
But so is football. So is baseball. Life in
dangerous.
01:36
COMM: Bobby was a professional boxer for twenty-four
years. But claims he's been fighting since
he was a child.
01:42
BOBBY: I was a six years old I had a my first
amateur boxing fight. I probably had my first
streetlight in a schoolyard at about 13 years
old, I started fighting bare-knuckled in the
street. Hard fights y'know. My people, my
culture I come from were born to be fighters.
It's um, if you're not a fighter you're an
oddball.
02:00
COMM: Bobby joined forces with alleged former
mobster Danny Provenzano to stage illegal
bare-knuckle fights.
02:07
DANNY: I've heard through the grapevine that
fighters can earn as much as 25, 30, y'know.
A guy with the caliber of Bobby Gunn can possibly
make up to fifty thousand dollars a night.
02:20
BOBBY: I am the poster boy for bare-knuckle
boxing, all over the world they know I'm Bobby
Gunn the champ. I'm paving the road for all
these back room fighters and all these underground
fighters and I'm paving the road for them
to have a future, a legitimate sport.
02:32
COMM: Now the pair want to transform the sport
from back alley brawls into a billion dollar
industry to rival the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
02:41
DANNY: There is not one state in this country,
or one state in this world where you are allowed
to legitimately bare-knuckle box. So we appreciate
the support and y'know keep following us and
we're gonna keep pushing forward to make this
sport a sanctioned sport. Thanks every body
for coming.
03:01
BOBBY: Fight men are good men and I'm here
for all the fight men. I represent them all.
I wanna make this a better world for them.
I paving the road for them to have a future,
a legitimate sport. Where they get set rank
and they get paid properly, and it's a legitimate
sanctioned - that's the whole goal of what
I'm doing. Bare-knuckle boxing it'll be the
third power house combat sport next to boxing
a UFCm, MMA.
