Bare-knuckle Boxing: gloveless fights open before the event
The Bare-knuckle Boxing section brings together boxing bouts fought without gloves that the line opens for betting ahead of the event. Each fight is listed on its own under the group of the promotion staging the card, with the two boxers shown one above the other.
From bare fists to gloves and back
Professional boxing was a bare-fisted business before gloves came in. A few dates mark the way:
1838: the London Prize Ring Rules are published, then revised in 1853; a round lasted until one man went down, whether punched or thrown;
1867: the Marquess of Queensberry Rules take over and professional boxing gradually moves to gloves;
8 July 1889: John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain contest the last bare-knuckle heavyweight championship;
March 2018: Wyoming becomes the first US state to legalise professional bare-knuckle fighting.
Today's sport grew out of that recent comeback, with promotions staging whole nights of gloveless bouts, and those cards are what the section carries, starting with the gloveless fight card open for betting.
What the line shows for a bout
A bout card lists three prices in a row: W1 for the boxer billed first, DRAW, then W2 for the opponent. Open the bout page and a two-way market called "Team Wins" is added, limited to W1 and W2. In the list of groups, the number shown in brackets is the count of open fights.
The betting rules have no section reserved for gloveless fighting. These bouts fall under section 10.8, which covers boxing and martial arts and sets out the possible results of a fight and how each one is settled.
Betting before the first round
The section is part of the pre-match line, next to every sport open before kick-off or first bell. Stakes are placed in dirhams from a personal account, so register on the site before your first bet.