Gypsy Fighting

scottwill

has anyone ever seen any of these fights on DVD’s or video’s??
if so what is your opinion on them and are they really brutal.

In the last couple of weeks there been articles in some Sunday papers saying that the people how fight in them and the organizers are making a fortune selling these DVD’s and they descried the fights and it all sound a bit mad but that could be just the papers making a meal out of it.

I did a search on ebay for gypsy fighting dvd’s and there is some amount of them for sale in most of them are irish gypsy’s.

Just wondering who do be buying these dvd’s??

jesus_thats_gre

search for pikeys in nikeys... certainly an interesting spectacle..

breadmonkey

I saw one once. They can't fight for ****

sailorboy

was in belfast picked one up.
its just 30 mins but theres a few nice upper cuts and sucker punches in the one i got

bounty

i posted a link to a nacker fight on martial arts section a while ago

Matthewthebig

Sorry but am I the only reson sickened by this? I know they do it of their own free will, but still paying to watch to guys beat the **** out of each other is pretty disturbing!

Berger

You sir, need to stop being so sensitive. Personally I think they're great! Very entertaining altogether.

BrianD3

i posted a link to a nacker fight on martial arts section a while ago

Was that the video where two knackers were fighting on a road? I was actually quite surprised by how "civilised" that fight was. OK it was a tough fight with no gloves however it wasn't the brutal, vicious free-for-all that I thought it would be.

BrianD3

Wertz

What a lot of people don't realise is that these fights are primarily organised to settle differences and family fueds in the travelling community. It's a form of justice.
Some of them can fight like f*ck, other times it's like watching riverdnace only with tracksuits.
The nice sideline in filming them, then burning and selling DvDs is a relatively new thing. As for who's buying em, I dunno...watched a few in a mate's gaff...most of the travellers were "locals" so we had a good laugh at them...

WizZard

Matthewthebig wrote:

...but still paying to watch to guys beat the **** out of each other is pretty disturbing!

What about big fights on Pay Per View on Sky? Do you complain to them?

DrIndy

Matthewthebig wrote:

Sorry but am I the only reson sickened by this? I know they do it of their own free will, but still paying to watch to guys beat the **** out of each other is pretty disturbing!

Boxing anyone? Tyson, Bruno, Mohammed Ali et al....

The only difference is the boxing gloves and there is bigger money in it....

ShiverinEskimo

You cant compare boxing to knacker fightin, come on, no way. Between referees, ring side doctors and an ambulance on stand by and the fight having training, technique, gloves and rules, compared to bare knuckle fist fights where its keep going til submission is hardly comparable - blood pissing out, barely able to stand up without help - they are savages. While I found the knacker fights funny and quite entertaining I do not compare them in any way to a world heavyweight boxing fight.

mad m

Snatch!!! Not only was he a Pikey but he was the boxing champions of the pikeys haha

The Real B-man

any links?

jesus_thats_gre

The King of the Gypies is a particular popular event..

Phil_321

ShiverinEskimo wrote:

You cant compare boxing to knacker fightin, come on, no way. Between referees, ring side doctors and an ambulance on stand by and the fight having training, technique, gloves and rules, compared to bare knuckle fist fights where its keep going til submission is hardly comparable - blood pissing out, barely able to stand up without help - they are savages. While I found the knacker fights funny and quite entertaining I do not compare them in any way to a world heavyweight boxing fight.

I don't know what knacker fights you were watching but the DVD I saw of McDonaghs versus Wards(I think), didn't have blood pissing out or guys barely able to stand. There was a bit of biting and tne odd header but on the whole it was pretty lame. The knacks wouldn't stop holding and their boxing skills were pathetic. They looked incapable of knocking each other out, the fights all ended with one fighter getting sick off it and throwing in the towel, no K.O's. Because of their poor physical condition they were wasted in no time and couldn't throw any powerful punches, there was very little blood. It was 4 fights all at the end of the day for anyone interested.
It was a good laugh listening to them talk sh*te but if it's extreme hardcore violence you're after look elsewhere...... namely Ultimate Fighiting - Ultimate Knockouts on Bravo. There is some proper savagery there. Anyone see Ken Shamrock's comeback fight, where he gets the head bet off him. He looked like a f*cking Klingon by the end of it his face was so swollen.

Smellyirishman

<snip> - not a chance

Stupid if you ask me

Slunk

How longs this on for, how violent. Dont want to spend forever downloading on my crappy connection for a few seconds

po0k

So what do you all make of Unlicensed Boxing?


Have you seen the women's tinker-fighting videos?

Willymuncher

Smellyirishman wrote:

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Stupid if you ask me

Bunch of fat fukkers, prancing around like fairies and hugging one another, thats knacker fighting? pfft! its not what i expected, its terrible to see young kids there too...what sort of scum allows a young child to witness that sh!te

Smellyirishman

Eh...knackers

Eh, abuot 8 mins I think. Not very violent. Prolly not worth the DL if your on 56k, I was just putting up a vid to give an idea of what people are talking about. Load of bull if you ask me

BrianD3

The thing about that video is that the guys are actually trying to box rather than simply tearing into each other "no holds barred". The fight seems boring because the fighters are quite cagey and defensive, are trying to pace themselves and are not constantly going for big shots/knockouts. In this respect, the fight is similar to a (licensed) boxing bout.

BrianD3

Slunk

from the counds of that its not worth all 15.5megs on 56k. I want some serious damage and bloodshed for that amount of time

Con9903

ah finally something to fill the void left by badger baiting and pitbull fighting. Bring it on i say.

*begins to erect knacker fighting ring in back garden*

seamus

If anyone wants the vid they can google it. Don't post them here, thanks.

Smellyirishman

Was wondering if it was appropriate, guess not. Fair enough.

dcarroll

I have one but it's ****, no decent fights in it, just a load of hugging and some knacker ref shouting no howldin and shake hands (in a great pikey accent i must say) but just go outside a pub any fri or saturday night and you'll see better digs thrown

CuppaCocoa

You can buy these dvds at the car boot sale in Santry on Sunday mornings. Go Kart City. Cost 5 euro. Copies of course!

Mossy Monk

the knacker fighting dvd's i saw were all ****e. "hit him billy, come on ffs"

the_syco

Saw one a while back. Someone had dubbed a voice-over from Street Fighter 2 into it, saying "finish him!", just before one pikey hit the other (dazed, barely standing) pikey. Class!

Kingsize

seen one on video a couple o years ago i was surprised at how well restrained by the "refs" the fighters were.