This past weekend saw the debut of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship in Wyoming. The 10-fight pay-per-view card featured plenty of UFC and Bellator veterans – including the likes of Ricco Rodriguez, Joey Beltran, Bec Rawlings and Johnny Bedford. The ruleset was a hybrid of boxing and MMA – with no kicks, elbows or knees, though clinching was allowed. But most importantly, true to its name, there were no gloves – just hand wraps that stopped below the knuckles. The result was plenty of blood. MMA has fought past a rough early start – back when John McCain called it “human cockfighting” – to rise to some legitimacy as a sport
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Daily Debate: Did the bare-knuckle boxing event give MMA a bad look? – MMA Junkie