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Bare Knuckle Fighting in Mississippi

Image courtesy of the Mississippi State Department of Health

Brother Rodgers with Mississippi Department of Archive and History is a wealth of wonderful information from the annals of Mississippi history.

Brothers stopped by the SuperTalk studios for Good Things and talked  about the last bare knuckle championship boxing match taking place outside of Hattiesburg in 1889.

Listen to this fascinating 10 minute story here:

 

Check out this little extra factoid that you won’t hear anywhere else!

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