Bare-knuckled

Frank Slavin, who fought both bare-knuckled and gloved bouts, was the heavyweight champion of Australia and boxed in the United States, Canada and England.

Well, it's hard to knock a tough man cold with bare-knuckled head punches.

However, Dean was hardly a nature lover, so his attention immediately went to eight men in the backyard, who were training in bare-knuckled fist fighting—three white men and five colored men.

His return – armed with a set peppered with Clash classics such as 'London Calling' and 'White Man In Hammersmith Palais' – had the old bare-knuckled punks from 1977 literally in tears.

Recent electoral battles in the city had been closely contested, bare-knuckled affairs, each party routinely accusing the other of cheating.

Nevertheless, merger arbitrage is not wholly lacking in bare-knuckled elements.