All in Fighting

Fairground Fighters...
Some of the greatest boxers both in UK and USA fought on the Fairgrounds
• Photos include
• Women's 1st world champion Barbera Butterick- Barbera can also wrestle!
• Rocky Marciano with Fairground fighter Irish Middleweight Champion Bertie Hyland
• Barbera with Rockys coach Charely Goldman
• The Buxton Brothers
• Mad Mike - Mickey Hayes from Tralee County Kerry
• Muhammad Ali with Mel Reid
• Billy Wood
• The great Sugar Ray Robinson with Pat McKeown

My Cousin: How did you
break my table?!
Me: I'll have to show you...

My 3 best martial arts for self defence
• 1 Geoff Thompson The Fence
I've not found anything better than this for real world violence
• 2 Boxing
If Fence isnt effective for whatever reason you will find yourself in Stand up Striking range
• 3 Catch Wrestling
Used by Sakuraba to take the Gracie family apart combination of Stand up grappling, Takedowns and takedown Defence and painful ground fighting Submissions

• And what do these 3 arts have in common?
• Great British Martial Arts

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3 main Areas of Street martial arts

• 1 Arranged fight - This is deemed as a "Fair fight" and there is a ref to ensure fair play
• 2 Street fighting - This may or may not be "fair" this is a risk you take, as they may start off fair and then end up with 3 or 4 of their friends kicking your head in
• 3 Self Defence - This is NOT about fighting, it is an attack where the objective is to escape the situation & NOT to Win a fight!
Often this is women who are being attacked or men who dont want to fight but are forced into defending theirselves