Thought this was interesting... veteran bareknuckle legend Bobby Gunn gives his thoughts on the fight:
Bare knuckle veteran Bobby Gunn weighs in on Malignaggi-Lobov
“Right now I believe that Paulie has the boxing ability to box circles around this guy if he doesn’t do what a lot of boxers do.”
They freeze up, he said, because they are used to having wrapped hands and gloves.
“They can’t comprehend the difference from hand wraps and gloves, it’s psychological, it breaks them and it puts them into a hyperventilating state and they break down, I’m telling you something that’s the gospel truth. If Paulie can’t relax, I don’t know if he can fight bare-knuckle. I don’t know if he ever had a bare-knuckle fight, I don’t even know if he has fragile hands.
“You understand this sport requires hands like steel. I soak my hands in Epsom salt and rubbing alcohol every other day, I soak the skin on my hands. When I broke a hand it’s because I threw a punch with all my power, I only throw 40% in bare-knuckle fights. I hope these guys have had bare-knuckle fights in the past because it’s a different world, my friend.
I’m telling you as a friend because a lot of players out there that are good fighters but they would not make a good bare-knuckle fighter.
“Bare-knuckle fighters are a different breed of a fighter, it is a different sport.”
“It’s like this here, like a pilot that flies a plane, he’s a complete different operator than a captain that sails a ship,” Gunn said. “If they don’t have any experience, they’re going to hurt themselves because they’re going to throw their hands full power and they’re going to break their hands, they’re going to look sloppy and they’re not going to do it right.
The sport of bare-knuckle fighting is like fencing with a sword. You have to break your opponent down but more with body work than anything else.