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In another, he is challenged at his beloved brother Sam's funeral and must fight in his funeral suit with tears still in his eyes, against a man wearing a huge ring that cuts his face to ribbons. But that didn’t stop Gorman from rising through the prize-fighting ranks of Great Britain and Ireland and staying undefeated for twenty years. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . When he won the title of Bareknuckle Champion of Great Britain and Ireland sometime around 1972/73, having beaten rival Jack Fletcher in a fight at a quarry, he was 28, 6 ft 1 in (1. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).
Gorman built a house on his own land in Uttoxeter, and lived there till his death on 18 January 2002. Gorman, now 56 and retired, lifts the lid on a dark but fascinating underworld, revealing for the first time the top fighting men of today with many never-before-seen photographs. He was a man who, having claimed the crown, had to defend it constantly, often at a moment's notice, against dangerous men who sometimes did not take defeat with grace or aplomb.ps iv also read Lenny Mcleans book years ago and enjoyed that but this is far superior, and we all now now McLean told a lot of lies, Gorman was everything Lenny claimed to be in terms of fighting. They put an oxygen mask on me and tried to force the dislocated shoulder back in its socket, but couldn't. Steeped in the tradition of his Irish Traveller ancestry, Bartley Gorman also embraced its dangerous subculture: bareknuckle fighting.
Definitely worth a read and don't think that Bartley was trying to bring glamour to violence, much the opposite, he gives a true account of its horrors. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins.All in all this was an excellent book on a culture that has survived, in some way or another, for over a thousand years and shows every sign of surviving for a thousand more.