We see that at the very beginning they were iffy about letting us do it, but now it's totally acceptable in a lot of venues in the UK.

The traveller’s life took priority though and at the age of sixteen he left Dublin for England with his family, interrupting a promising career in the ring before it had taken off. The film explores the reasons why they hold these fights and explores in-depth these families' secret life, which is barely known to outsiders of the Traveller community.It is not clear the level of wealth he might have amassed for himself and his family, but it is clear that no matter the level, he still chooses to stay humble. Knuckle is a 2011 Irish documentary film about the secretive world of Irish Traveller bare-knuckle boxing. The money would drive it further because the guy that lost the fight would have probably given up earlier, only for the money.

McDonagh, born into a family of travellers in Ireland, has fought for that family from a young age, when he took up boxing to beat bullying, and now he wants to take the sport to the next level by setting up his own promotion and staging legal fights. More and more venues are now allowing us to use it regardless of [whether we're] travellers or not travellers.

The real reason for the feud among the families is never revealed, as they will not talk about it to outsiders. If the money wasn't involved, that fighter would stop quicker, but he's got to fight for his family, himself, and then you've got to fight for the money, so there's a couple of reasons to keep continuing to fight until your last breath. He spent the early years of his life living the traditional way of Irish Travellers, in a horse-drawn barrel-top wagon, sleeping in a tent by the side of the road. year-old James Quinn McDonagh has taken on many fights, sometimes for large sums of money and remains undefeated.