Modifies a noun

• boxing: I read a book on the phenomenon of bare-knuckle boxing from days gone by, a couple of months ago.

• fighting: Early bare-knuckle fighting was crude with no written rules.

• fight: It was just short of finding an illegal bare-knuckle fight somewhere.

• boxer: I wrote last week about the early career of Newark's noted 19th Century bare-knuckle boxer, Harry Paulson ( 1819 - 1890 ).

• fighter: Vince enlists his uncle, a bare-knuckle fighter with a very strange accent, to help with Howard's training.

• brawl: One home movie, " Black Dudes Fighting " , features a bloody, bare-knuckle brawl between two men in a backyard.