His popularity increased even more, when he was involved in a controversial confrontation that led to the death of a man. There was a lot of hard training going into that fight because it was probably my last proper bare-knuckle fight. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The real reason for the feud among the families is never revealed, as they will not talk about it to outsiders. He spent the early years of his life living the traditional way of Irish Travellers, in a horse-drawn barrel-top wagon, sleeping in a tent by the side of the road.

The traveller’s life took priority though and at the age of sixteen he left Dublin for England with his family, interrupting a promising career in the ring before it had taken off. The title isn’t one that James Quinn McDonagh has given himself, rather one that has been thrust upon him by others due to his rock-solid reputation as a fighter.This film follows 12 years in the lives of three Irish Traveller families (Joyces, Nevins, and Quinn-McDonaghs) and their bitter feuds and fights. The film explores the reasons why they hold these fights and explores in-depth these families' secret life, which is barely known to outsiders of the Traveller community. Betting can be considered as a form of shout out to support your favourite fighter, and sites like www. Outside his professional fights, he had also had battles that he engaged in for large sums of money. The money would drive it further because the guy that lost the fight would have probably given up earlier, only for the money.

The word “travelers” is used because ancient bare-knuckle fighters were travelers who used this sport to dispute settlement. One of the well-known champions was James Quinn McDonagh, who took the game of bare-knuckle boxing to a whole new level. McDonagh, born into a family of travellers in Ireland, has fought for that family from a young age, when he took up boxing to beat bullying, and now he wants to take the sport to the next level by setting up his own promotion and staging legal fights. year-old James Quinn McDonagh has taken on many fights, sometimes for large sums of money and remains undefeated.

Knuckle is a 2011 Irish documentary film about the secretive world of Irish Traveller bare-knuckle boxing. He told LADbible: "That was a title given to me, not by me, but by other people, the media, and the newspapers.