King Of The Gypsies: Memoirs of the Undefeated Bareknuckle Champion of Great Britain and Ireland

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The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. He also discusses his various business ventures as an unlicensed boxing promoter, scrap dealer, painter and creosoter, his family relationships, and the history of bare knuckle boxing going back some generations, including the different types of rules (from "a few" to "absolutely none.

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. It also seems much more earnest as much as a memoir about brutal street brawls and prizefighting goes anyway. In one horrifying chapter, Gorman and his mates are attacked by a huge mob, beaten with pipes and sticks, hacked with broken bottles, and essentially left for dead. The feelings I got as the book progressed was a sense that the idyllic imagery of fairplay and the past in general was overtaken by violence, disrespect and the need for weapons, where as Bartley was true to his heritage, morals and faith which he kept with him to the end. As you'd expect from a book about a bare knuckle fighter, there is a lot of blood and violence but nevertheless you get a sense of the kind of man that Bartley was.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. Bartley Gorman and David Pearce signed to fight for the World unlicensed title after Pearce KO'd former WBA World Heavyweight Champion John Tate in California. What a fantastic book I regret learning of Bartley so late in life 15yrs after his death but what a man, what a life and the Lord put that life on the shoulders of the only man who could of handled it. He describes great fighters of the past like the infamous Uriah `Big Just' Burton, the challenges he threw out to London hardmen Lennie McLean and Roy Shaw, and the brutal mob attack that almost cost him his life.

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.

It does paint their world as a bit Mad Max and even too crazy for Bartley himself in the later years. Description for King of the Gypsies: Memoirs of the Undefeated Bareknuckle Champion of Great Britain and Ireland Paperback.

As someone who lives in a country with travellers and who has a negative view of them in general and their culture I can honestly say I was astouned after only a few pages about the depth of culture this man had and by extension travallers in general. For the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, actor Tom Hardy revealed that he used Gorman's voice as one of the inspirations for the accent of Bane. I originally picked it up after the Tyson Fury fight with Wilder (3), its easy to see now but Wilder never stood a chance, he could have fought Fury 20 times and would have lost every time.

Gorman built a house on his own land in Uttoxeter, and lived there till his death on 18 January 2002. It was necessary to illustrate the strong connection of Bartley Gorman to that fighting history of which his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were part. Gorman has been cited as the main inspiration for professional wrestler Wade Barrett's finishing move, the Bull Hammer Elbow. He fought for pride, money, and sometimes because when two men have high testosterone and high blood-alcohol content, that's what they do. A great read I could not put down, a man of principle and values little seen in today society, holding a title hard fought and hard to keep were the whole world comes looking for you.