Holy smokes, most fucked up fighting style ever

[butcer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouging_(fighting_style)


Rough and Tumble or Gouging was a form of fighting in the back-country United States, primarily in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Also known as rough-and-tumble fighting, it was often characterized by the objective of gouging out an opponent's eye,


Though it was never an organized sport, participants would sometimes schedule their fights (as one could schedule a duel), and victors were treated as local heroes.

The emphasis on maximum disfigurement, on severing bodily parts, made this fighting style unique. Amid the general mayhem, however, gouging out an opponent's eye became the sine qua non of rough-and-tumble fighting, much like the knockout punch in modern boxing. The best gougers, of course, were adept at other fighting skills. Some allegedly filed their teeth to bite off an enemy's appendages more efficiently. Still, liberating an eyeball quickly became a fighter's surest route to victory and his most prestigious accomplishment.

 

[butcer]

nobody finds it interesting to know a martial arts style that main feature was eye gauging was a prominent sport in the usa once upon a time ?

 

[BareKnucklez**]

Ya I've heard of it before its brutal. Theres also an Irish Stand Down which was a bare knuckle fight but with limited space to move around (everyone would crowd around really tight around the two fighters) and the fighters would just trade punches until someones KO'd.
Another interesting one in Ireland a few centuries ago was Irish Stick Fighting. Big groups of men with sticks would meet one another for a huge brawl on the day of the fair. The stick was called a Shillelagh:

Humans were so fucking violent in the past..

 

[BareKnucklez**]

In Gangs of New York, theres a woman called Hellcat Maggie who filed down her teeth to bite off peoples ears and noses. And apparently the character was based on a real woman of the same name.

 

[Jing]

Sounds like Human Cockfighting.