Lady Bare Knuckles, the lady with bare fingers

2021-12-01T16:00:29.863Z

Lady Bare Knuckles, the “lady with bare fingers”, in the 18th century, or Polly Fairclough Burns (1880-1958), were among the first famous boxers in England. English boxing appears in the 18th century and at the time, the fights are done with bare hands in the streets of the cities. It was in 1865 that the rules of the Marquis of Queensbury were established to codify fighting. Therefore, any woman who devotes herself to the noble art is considered a beast of fair, violent and vulgar. It was even necessary to wait until 2012 for women's boxing to be represented at the Olympic Games. Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach puts on her boxing gloves and tells you the story of a discipline from which women were long excluded.