Due to the use of comparatively tiny gloves in modern MMA, which render some of the techniques of modern boxing difficult to pull off (reliance upon glove blocking, for instance), it is interesting to look back a century and a half to the art of bareknuckle pugilism. In the hope that someone will find something useful:
Articles
A Plea For Style in Boxing
http://ejmas.com/jmanly/jmanlyframe.htm
A Bout With Gloves
http://ejmas.com/jmanly/jmanlyframe.htm
The Punching Bags of Pugilism
http://ejmas.com/jmanly/articles/200...myers_0801.htm
From Bare Knuckles to Modern Boxing
http://www.savateaustralia.com/Savat...n%20Boxing.htm
The Practical Value of Boxing
http://www.savateaustralia.com/Savat...ays/boxing.htm
A Discussion of Boxing Stances Through History
http://ahfaa.org/boxingstance.htm
When Boxing Was A Martial Art
http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/print.php?article=473
Sullivan and Kilrain Fight
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mslamar/WPA/lamar/sullivan.htm
Online Pugilism Manuals & Resources
Captain John Godfrey's Treatise Upon the Useful Science of Defence, 1747
http://www.sirwilliamhope.org/Library/Godfrey/
http://ahfaa.org/1747.htm
Fewtrell's Science of Manual Defence, 1790
http://www.sirwilliamhope.org/Library/Fewtrell/
Extracts From Mendoza's Treatise on Boxing, 1791
http://www.sirwilliamhope.org/Library/Mendoza/
Price's Science of Self Defence, 1867
http://www.geocities.com/cinaet/price.html
Ken Pfrenger's Google Video Lecture on Mendoza
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...=search&plinde x=0
Contemporary Wrestling Manuals (takedowns were used in early boxing)
Sir Thomas Parkyns' Close-Hugg Wrestler, 1713
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...tsparkyns.html
Layton's Norfolk Wrestling, 1830's
http://www.the-exiles.org/manual/norfwres/norfwres.htm
Donald Walker's Wrestling, 1840
http://www.geocities.com/cinaet/walker.html
Famous Fighters
IBHOF "Pioneer" Section
http://www.ibhof.com/ibhfrost.htm
Cyber Boxing Zone--Bareknuckle Champions of England
http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/barenuk.htm
Cyber Boxing Zone--Bareknuckle Champions of America
http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/bare-am.htm
Published Instructional Manuals
English Martial Arts--Terry Brown
http://www.amazon.com/English-Martia...2121576&sr=8-1
The Science of Boxing--Professor Mike Donovan
http://www.amazon.com/Science-Boxing...2121679&sr=1-2
The Classical Pugilism and Bareknuckle Boxing Companion, V.1
http://www.lulu.com/content/101063
The Classical Pugilism and Bareknuckle Boxing Companion, V.2
http://www.lulu.com/content/105201
Self-Defense; Or, The Art of Boxing--Ned Donnelly
http://www.lulu.com/content/70173
Defensive Exercises--George Walker
http://www.lulu.com/content/74232
Art of Wrestling--Dick & Fitzgerald
http://www.lulu.com/content/986654
Boxing--E.B. Mitchell
http://www.lulu.com/content/986912
Manual of Boxing--Benedict
http://www.lulu.com/content/987597
Bartitsu DVD (contains pugilism instruction)
http://www.lulu.com/content/511029
Edwin Shaw's Teacher of Sparring
http://www.lulu.com/content/998265
Art and Practice of English Boxing
http://www.lulu.com/content/1001136
Armstrong's Wrestling
http://www.lulu.com/content/1029751
R.K. Fox's Police Gazette Art of Wrestling
http://www.lulu.com/content/1008995
Forums
Yahoo! Classic Pugilism Group
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/classicpugilism/
Yahoo! Western Martial Arts Group
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/
Traditional Boxing Thread @ Martial Arts Planet
http://www.martialartsplanet.com/for...ad.php?t=20504
Critique of "Boxing Stances Through History" @ Bullshido.net
http://www.bullshido.net/forums/show...p?t=19088&pp=1
Books
Boxiana by Pearce Egan
Bare Fists by Bob Mee
The Manly Art by Elliott J. Gorn
Tom Spring by John Hurley
The Boxing Register by James Roberts and Alexander Scutt
Bareknuckles by Dennis Brailsford
John L. Sullivan and His America by Michael T. Isenberg
The Great Prize Fight by Alan Lloyd
John L. Sullivan by Adam Pollack
Pugilistica by Henry Downes Miles
Pancratia by William Oxberry
The Sundowners by Kevin R. Smith
Footage of Bareknuckle Fights
Real BKB: The Fights of the Irish Travellers (I haven't seen this one)
http://www.scientificwrestling.com/products/item7.cfm
What Pugilism Evolved From
Passchen's Ring-Buch, 1659
http://www.truefork.org/DragonPreser...y/Passchen.php
Nicolaes Petter's Worstel Konst, 1674
http://www.truefork.org/DragonPreser...ety/Petter.php
Sources Online
Henry Downes Miles' Pugilistica
http://www.archive.org/details/pugil...isto01mileuoft
http://www.archive.org/details/pugil...isto02mileuoft
Fred Henning - Fights for the Championship
http://www.archive.org/details/fight...mpio01hennuoft
http://www.archive.org/details/fight...mpio02hennuoft
