It’s hard to really pinpoint when men decided to take up boxing bears, but according to a recent article on VICE Fightland Blog the tradition began sometime in the mid-nineteenth century, and made its grand debut in New York in 1877 ( ‘Pyrenean Bear, who wrestles all comers under the rules’). 

Check out these INSANE pictures from the post by Sarah Kurchak, and click here to read more about this fascinating, brutal, and peculiar time in history where boxing a bear was and in some cases, still is, all the rage . . .

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