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Dedication

To my wonderful wife, Mylinda, who's borne untoldhorrors by listening to me drone on incessantly on the topicof Western Martial Arts in general and this book in particular,who has put up with my bruises and injuries, and who, onceas a birthday present, actually convincingly feigned interestfor my somewhat unusual hobby.

To my fantastic son, hristopher, who is always eagerto wrestle or punch his daddy and to whom ! hope to leave a

legacy of love for the historic Martial Arts uni"ue to hisheritage.To my beautiful daughter, Allison, who makes me

smile whenever ! look at her and who lights up the room withher mere presence.

To my #ather, $uss, and Mother, Melody, whoinstilled and fostered curiosity and a sense of adventure inme. ! will never forget the many stories of wonder and

adventure from your library %ad, nor will ! forget the &superhero( capes sewn from old towels, Mom.To my Western Martial Arts friends, training partners,

associates, and mentors without whom ! would not have beenable come as far as ! have. )ou each deserve to be named but! fear ! would double the length of the book were ! to do so.

*evertheless, ! would be remiss if ! did not mention +enfrenger who started me on the path of Western Martial Artsand Mark $ainey, my sparring partner and cofounder ofumann -hata %ayton Western Martial Arts lub.

! dedicate this book to each of you.


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Special thanks to Tony Wolf for his efforts inproofing this document.


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Table of Contents

Grappling? In Boxing? C'mon now!.....................................1

In-Fighting............................................................................9

The Clinch and Chancery....................................................21

More Chances at Chancery.................................................37

The Cross-Buttock..............................................................50

The Backfall........................................................................66

The Side-Fall.......................................................................72The Backheel......................................................................82

"Throwing": The Other Backheel.......................................92

The Back Hip Fall...............................................................98

Pull the Hair, Poke the Eye, Oh My!.................................104

Wrestling as an accessory to Pugilism..............................119

Drills.................................................................................126

Conclusion........................................................................135Bibliography......................................................................139


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Price - Escape from Front Chancery...................................48

Allanson-Winn - Cross-Buttock..........................................52

Sullivan - Cross-Buttock.....................................................53Walker - Cross-Buttock.......................................................54

Price - Cross-Buttock - side view.......................................56

Price - Cross-Buttock - front view......................................56

"Gunner" Moir - Cross-Buttock..........................................58

Sullivan - Break for Cross-Buttock.....................................59

Hackenschmidt - Counter to Cross-Buttock.......................62

Hand-on-hip stop for Cross-Buttock...................................63"Hipping in" stop for Cross-Buttock...................................64

Sullivan - Back-Fall.............................................................67

Price - Back-Fall..................................................................68

Sullivan - Break for Back-Fall.............................................70

Sullivan - Side-Fall..............................................................73

Price - Side-Fall...................................................................74

Allanson-Winn - Side-Fall (he names Back-Fall)................75

Art and Practice of Boxing - The "Lock"...........................77Allanson-Winn - Back-Heel................................................83

Edwards - Back-Heeling.....................................................84

"Gunner" Moir - Back-Heel................................................85

Edwards - Back-Heeling - variation 1.................................88

Allanson-Winn - stop for Back-Heel...................................89

"Gunner" Moir - Block for Back-heel.................................90

Art and Practice - Throwing...............................................93Walker's Backheel...............................................................95

Escape from Backheel.........................................................97

Sullivan's Back Hip Fall......................................................99

Art and Practice - Back Hip Fall.......................................100

Check Lead Hand and enter for throw...............................101

Hair Pull assisted balance break........................................106

Inn-Play - The Pinnion......................................................108

Inn-Play - Elbow assisted Pinnion.....................................108Inn-Play - Arm-Wrap style Pinnion...................................109


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Inn-Play - Boxing Choke...................................................110

Inn-Fighting - Twist the head............................................113

Escape from Parkyns Head-Grappling..............................115Inn-Play - Elbow strike breaks Front Choke.....................116

Walker - Stop for Cross-Buttocks: The Lock....................122

Walker - The Chip.............................................................123

*ote ! have redrawn, by hand, sketches of any images forwhich ! do not own opyright on or have specific written

permission to use original scans of the images found in the

historic te/ts. Although the te/t itself from these historicmanuals has long since passed out of opyright, the digitalscans of the images are considered &new art( and have not.!mages which ! have resketched are denoted by the presenceof a block style typeface &0+0( in one corner of the image,indicating that ! have resketched this image and it is nottheoriginal scan of the image, which the originating individualstill holds opyright on. !mages with a handwritten &0+0(

in one corner indicates an original sketch by me.


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THEGRAPPLING OFPUGILISM

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Grappling? In Boxing? C'mon now!

That seems to be one of the most common responses tothe assertion that, yes indeed, -o/ing contains grappling.Well, at least it used to, that is. This is often accompanied bythe suggestion that &proper( -o/ing doesn't contain grappling

but that lowbrow &street fighting( type -o/ing, used by thugs,legbreakers, and ner'dowells possibly could. 4ometimes theresponse is a variation of the idea that &proper( -o/ing doesn'tcontain grappling but that the popularity of Mi/ed Martial Arts5MMA6 competitions such as the 7# has seen a sort of

bastardi8ation of the real, technical, &4weet 4cience,( -o/ingto include things that have never, ever, been a part of &true and

proper( -o/ing. A somewhat more charitable variation assertsthat, though &proper( -o/ing doesn't include grappling, certain

practitioners have contaminated the pure sport by including it,perhaps from some unspecified and un-o/ingish martial art,'um, maybe Muay Thai, +arate or something'.

)ou may already be familiar with the fact that older

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styles of -o/ing, older rule sets, which for convenience sake!'ll call 'lassic ugilism'9, did, in fact, contain a great deal ofgrappling. :r, perhaps, you're new to the idea and areintrigued. !f so, welcome to a new, well old, and valuable sliceof -o/ing from the past.

)es, it's true. lassic ugilism historically includednumerous elements of what we call today, &grappling.( !t wascommon during earlier periods to call it wrestling or, often, to

refer to individual techni"ues. *evertheless, include them theydid. These techni"ues encompassed trips, throws, bodygrapples, bodyclashes, and, sometimes, what we today wouldcall downright dirty fighting. :ur pugilistic ancestors wererough men who participated in a rough sport. There wereseveral evolutions of the rules of bo/ing, but again, forconvenience sake, let's separate it by its three major divisions.

-o/ing can be said to be one of man's two oldest

sports, the other being Wrestling. -o/ing historians can, andhave, made a case that the roots of Modern -o/ing hearken

back perhaps as far as ancient 2gypt, but most are content totrace it back to ancient ;reece where it appeared in variousforms. *evertheless, the verifiable roots of Modern -o/ingare difficult to trace earlier than post$oman occupation2ngland. )es, there likely has always been a sport in whichtwo men punch each other in the head, but was that -o/ingeus' skull. Whatever the case, thehistory of Modern -o/ing is clearly 2nglish in origin.

2ven within that history we we want to look at certainperiods which we will define by rule sets. These rule sets arethe -roughton era rules, the 0ondon ri8e $ing rules, and theMar"uis of ?ueensbury rules. We'll focus mainly on the-roughton era rules and the 0ondon ri8e $ing rules but touchupon the Mar"uis of ?ueensbury rules as well.

-roughton is said to have coined his rules after killinga man in the ring 5! did mention that lassic ugilism was arough sport6. Apart from details of the ring, winning the bout,rounds, and awarding of the purse, his rules were thus

@That no person is to hit his Adversary when he isdown, or sei8e him by the ham, the breeches, or any

part below the waist a man on his knees is reckoned

down.@

*otice that this leaves more than a bit of play. What, amongthe modern &dirty tricks,( is legal under this one sentence ruleset< ?uite a lot.

The 0ondon ri8e $ing rules were somewhat moree/tensive and, among other things, stipulated

*o butting. *o hitting a downed man. *o hitting below the belt. *o gouging or biting. *o kicking or falling on an opponent knees

first. *o grabbing from the waist down.

Again, what isn'tforbidden speaks volumes.

The Mar"uis of ?ueensbury rules effectively

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eliminated grappling from the sport by stipulating, &*owrestling or hugging allowed.( 1owever, that is not to saythat Mar"uis rules were immediately adopted by all. Thereremained a period of overlap between each of the rule sets andmany of the manuals written after the Mar"uis of ?ueensburyrules were published give elo"uent testament to the fact thatmatches including grappling were still fought for "uite sometime.

-ut is it useful to me today< ! mean, really, what's thepoint of it today< an't you just go down to the -ra8ilian =u=itsu or =udo club< Well, sure you could. -ut at those clubsyou'll learn -ra8ilian =u =itsu and =udo. )ou won't be learningthe historic grappling of lassic ugilism. 4ure there are a lotof similarities, however, most -ra8ilian =u =itsu and =udoschools are not going to teach you how to integrate theire/cellent grappling arts with ugilism. )es, if you're creative

and hard working you can figure it out. 4ounds like a prettygood plan. -ut wouldn't it be nice if you had some hints onhow to integrate

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