Bare Knuckle Fighting featured on Jeopardy
You know you’ve made it, when you are featured on Jeopardy.
On Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, the sport of bare knuckle and one of its most dominant promotions were recognized on the longest running trivia show on television.
The question in the category “the ‘are’ you breath” was worth for $600 and required players to determine the question “what is bare knuckle?”
The clue provided stated, “a sanctioned and medically supervised promotion founded in 2018 presents this style of boxing — John. L. Sullivan would be proud.”
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Sullivan, who died in 1918 and was recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring Rules, was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990, as a member of the hall’s original class. He had a record of 47 wins, 1 loss and 2 draws, with 38 wins by knockout, though many sources disagree on his exact record.
The barn where Sullivan trained still stands in the small town of Belfast, New York and is now the Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame.
Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship or BKFC is the first promotion to hold an official state-sanctioned and commissioned bare-knuckle boxing event in the United States since 1889.
The promotion was founded in April 2018 and is presided over by former American professional boxer David Feldman.
Feldman shared his excitement for the Jeopardy news on Facebook.
“BKFC was a Jeopardy question on tonight’s episode! Amazing!” he wrote.
