The first Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship took place in early June, and it wasn’t exactly the downfall of civilization that some people feared it would be. It was actually pretty entertaining for a combat sport coming back from a century-long banishment. The fans that turned out were lively. The fighters were smiling before and after their bouts. The president and catalyst, David Feldman, was on cloud nine as he soaked in his resurrected taboo.
In fact, the most-used adjective in Cheyenne that night was “historic” — everyone on hand was sharing in a piece of fight game history.