Dembe - Traditional Nigerian Boxing Pictures

[tellner]

Courtesy of the BBC.

Minimal rules pugilism with a cestus. Dangerous, bloody and a hard, hard life. But I guess it has its share of glory.

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

Nice find Tellner!

 

[JadecloudAlchemist]

Amazing pictures and article!!

 

[arnisador]

Cool!

 

[Josh]

awesome

 

[SageGhost83]

Nice!

 

[MahaKaal]

Great pictures

 

[still learning]

Hello, From the look of there gloves..they can only strike with the one cover hand, no kicking....must have some kind of rules...

Does this make it a sport fighting Nigerian style?

Aloha

 

[Deaf Smith]

“We are all friends,” says champion boxer Hussaini Maisauki Baki, “but in the ring, there are no friends".

Sounds like a true boxer (or poker player.)

I bet they don't have long careers.

Deaf

 

[meth18au]

That's an amazing find. I'm interesting now.

Is this all approached on an ad-hoc basis- just travel and fight. Or do they have training methods that they use? Very interesting...I must look into this more!

Cheers Tellner