Bare knuckled

The “bare knuckled competition that globalisation requires" is presented as a non-negotiable given, while those on the receiving end of the consequences are dismissed as ill-informed and wishing to "legalise modern-day forms of piracy and counterfeiting" (and in this respect Shapiro is referring to the governments of Brazil and India).

I fought you hard as a bare knuckled boxer in open yard.

He'd have no problem knocking out John Martorano with one bare knuckled blow.