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AT 14 AUG 2021 – 19:00 BST
BKB 21 Fight Card:
Dan Chapman vs Sean George
Mickey Parker vs Dave Thomas
Bachir Fakhouri vs Alex Wilson
Tony Lafferty vs Nathan Leeson
Scott McHugh vs James Lilley
Carl Hobley vs Andrew Ross
Chas Symonds vs Wesley O’Neil
Barrie Jones vs Amir Skrijelj
Daniel Lerwell vs Mason Shaw
Ellis Shepherd vs Gareth Hutchin
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“My life was just revolving around drugs, alcohol, domestic abuse, and violence and there was no one to help me.”
Dan Chapman has been a fighter for as long as he can remember after a childhood spent surrounded by the type of things nobody should have to witness.
Aged just 10, he realised he was on his own, cutting ties with those around him and taking a different path.
Today, Dan is now a world champion bare-knuckle fighter, a star of what is perhaps the most brutal sport on the planet, where participants are regularly subjected to utterly horrifying injuries.
And yet, it is rapidly becoming one of the world’s fastest-growing sports.
This Saturday night, he defends his world title against fellow Welshman Sean George in front of around 2,000 fans at London’s O2.
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It is the latest chapter in a fighting career which has lasted nearly 20 years, although the realities of this sport can be a shock even for a man of his experience.
“I think it only lasted 45 seconds,” Dan explains, reminiscing about his first bare-knuckle fight.
“I snapped his nose in a jab. I could hear it crunch.
“Even after the fight I went over straight away to see how he was because I knew I’d really hurt him. That’s when I realised just how brutal this sport is.
“But I sort of fell in love with it a little bit.”
That last comment may well send chills down the spine of many.
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After all, what kind of bloodthirsty savage would take any modicum of joy out of all this?
When we first meet for this interview, Dan being arguably the antithesis of what one would expect from a bare knuckle fighter confuses things even more.
For one, he’s about 4.5ft tall (his words). But after he emerges from a forest of punch bags and we sit down for an hour-long chat at his gym – a converted play school next to Maesteg Fire Station – there’s also a genuine warmth which shines through, too.
He’s polite, well-spoken, and frequently calls me “champ”.
But let’s get one thing clear: while he may seem a gentleman away from the ring, he is still a capable of unleashing a force which many would find truly terrifying.
“A beautiful chaos” is how he describes it.
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Life up until this point has brought its fair share of troubles for the 31-year-old, but has seldom ever been beautiful.
Indeed, being a half-Bangladeshi kid growing up in Swansea arguably brought enough grief on its own, he says.
“When I was in school, I looked like Mowgli,” he remembers with a smirk.
“I had a bowl haircut, the lot. I was tiny. I was so malnourished.
“My breakfast would be raw sausages, so when I went to school I was tiny.
“At comp I found it difficult. I had the odd bully shouting Pakistani, n*****, all these racial remarks.
“But I was tough. I’d have a fight every day until I got respect.
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“Even if I lost, or had my head kicked in, I would fight until they wouldn’t call me those names anymore.”
Looking back, he admits it perhaps wasn’t the best way to handle things, but those experiences undoubtedly played a part in forging the fighter Dan would later become.
After first pulling on a pair of gloves at the age of 13, he would go on to become one of the rising stars of a thriving amateur Welsh fight scene, earning 10 Welsh titles.
three British titles and, in 2008, he became the first ever Welshman to win gold at the Commonwealth Youth Games.
But even a man of his pedigree doesn’t come out unscathed in the harsh world of bare-knuckle boxing.
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Dan tells how broken hands and retina damage are some of the more notable injuries he’s received in the ring since taking off the gloves, although none of that holds a candle to the pain which unfolded one fateful day back in 2011.
“This isn’t where I wanted to be in my career to be honest. I was qualifying for the 2012 Olympics. I wanted a gold medal.
“I was going to the Olympic qualifiers in Azerbaijan in 2011 and it would have been out of me and Luke Campbell.
“The week before going to Azerbaijan, I came home that weekend and had a motorbike crash.
“That was my use of travel. It was the cheapest way of travelling around.
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“This car just went really fast behind me. I turned my head to look behind me and as I turned back round, I ran out of kerb.
“I hit a steel girder and snapped my femur in five or six places. Broke my leg and my two hands, the handlebar actually went through my hand, the bone came through my leg.
“It was a life-threatening accident. I was very, very lucky, but at the same time my whole life still got ripped away from me.
“The doctor said I’d never train again. He told me to play darts, and I’m terrible at darts. I don’t drink and I think in a game of darts you need a few pints to get yourself going.”
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Bare-knuckle boxer Dan Chapman has endured a truly difficult journey (Image: Mark Lewis/WalesOnline)
Faced with the prospect of having to turn his back on the sport he loved, Dan took up something of a normal life.
“I wanted to give back to children. With my foster caring background, I knew I could be very handy in primary schools working with children, who were vulnerable, who have poor backgrounds. So that’s why I went into childcare, helping children in children’s homes, and I loved doing it.
“It sort of filled a gap for me.”
Team GB boxing team-mate Campbell, meanwhile, would of course go on to win the Olympic gold Dan so craved, a sight which perhaps reminded him of what might have been.
Whatever the reason, Dan couldn’t stay out of the gym, and quickly realised he could use his experiences in the ring to complement his mentoring work.
“My love was still with teaching kids, particularly ones with behavioural problems and disabilities, but I thought I could still do it in a gym environment.
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“That’s what I started to do.
“I started doing kids’ boxing classes, and I started working with a company called Special Families, working with children who are autistic or have Asperger’s and Down syndrome. Every week we did free sessions for them and it just brought a huge spark to the building.
“I had a young boy, who was only about 14 or 15. He was in a wheelchair and we had him sparring. You can imagine what that must have felt like for him. It was something he must have felt he’d never do.”
BKB 21 Free
AT 14 AUG 2021 – 19:00 BST
BKB 21 Fight Card:
Dan Chapman vs Sean George
Mickey Parker vs Dave Thomas
Bachir Fakhouri vs Alex Wilson
Tony Lafferty vs Nathan Leeson
Scott McHugh vs James Lilley
Carl Hobley vs Andrew Ross
Chas Symonds vs Wesley O’Neil
Barrie Jones vs Amir Skrijelj
Daniel Lerwell vs Mason Shaw
Ellis Shepherd vs Gareth Hutchin
BKB 21 Free
“My life was just revolving around drugs, alcohol, domestic abuse, and violence and there was no one to help me.”
Dan Chapman has been a fighter for as long as he can remember after a childhood spent surrounded by the type of things nobody should have to witness.
Aged just 10, he realised he was on his own, cutting ties with those around him and taking a different path.
Today, Dan is now a world champion bare-knuckle fighter, a star of what is perhaps the most brutal sport on the planet, where participants are regularly subjected to utterly horrifying injuries.
And yet, it is rapidly becoming one of the world’s fastest-growing sports.
This Saturday night, he defends his world title against fellow Welshman Sean George in front of around 2,000 fans at London’s O2.
BKB 21 Free
It is the latest chapter in a fighting career which has lasted nearly 20 years, although the realities of this sport can be a shock even for a man of his experience.
“I think it only lasted 45 seconds,” Dan explains, reminiscing about his first bare-knuckle fight.
“I snapped his nose in a jab. I could hear it crunch.
“Even after the fight I went over straight away to see how he was because I knew I’d really hurt him. That’s when I realised just how brutal this sport is.
“But I sort of fell in love with it a little bit.”
That last comment may well send chills down the spine of many.
BKB 21 Free
After all, what kind of bloodthirsty savage would take any modicum of joy out of all this?
When we first meet for this interview, Dan being arguably the antithesis of what one would expect from a bare knuckle fighter confuses things even more.
For one, he’s about 4.5ft tall (his words). But after he emerges from a forest of punch bags and we sit down for an hour-long chat at his gym – a converted play school next to Maesteg Fire Station – there’s also a genuine warmth which shines through, too.
He’s polite, well-spoken, and frequently calls me “champ”.
But let’s get one thing clear: while he may seem a gentleman away from the ring, he is still a capable of unleashing a force which many would find truly terrifying.
“A beautiful chaos” is how he describes it.
BKB 21 Free
Life up until this point has brought its fair share of troubles for the 31-year-old, but has seldom ever been beautiful.
Indeed, being a half-Bangladeshi kid growing up in Swansea arguably brought enough grief on its own, he says.
“When I was in school, I looked like Mowgli,” he remembers with a smirk.
“I had a bowl haircut, the lot. I was tiny. I was so malnourished.
“My breakfast would be raw sausages, so when I went to school I was tiny.
“At comp I found it difficult. I had the odd bully shouting Pakistani, n*****, all these racial remarks.
“But I was tough. I’d have a fight every day until I got respect.
BKB 21 Free
“Even if I lost, or had my head kicked in, I would fight until they wouldn’t call me those names anymore.”
Looking back, he admits it perhaps wasn’t the best way to handle things, but those experiences undoubtedly played a part in forging the fighter Dan would later become.
After first pulling on a pair of gloves at the age of 13, he would go on to become one of the rising stars of a thriving amateur Welsh fight scene, earning 10 Welsh titles.
three British titles and, in 2008, he became the first ever Welshman to win gold at the Commonwealth Youth Games.
But even a man of his pedigree doesn’t come out unscathed in the harsh world of bare-knuckle boxing.
BKB 21 Free
Dan tells how broken hands and retina damage are some of the more notable injuries he’s received in the ring since taking off the gloves, although none of that holds a candle to the pain which unfolded one fateful day back in 2011.
“This isn’t where I wanted to be in my career to be honest. I was qualifying for the 2012 Olympics. I wanted a gold medal.
“I was going to the Olympic qualifiers in Azerbaijan in 2011 and it would have been out of me and Luke Campbell.
“The week before going to Azerbaijan, I came home that weekend and had a motorbike crash.
“That was my use of travel. It was the cheapest way of travelling around.
BKB 21 Free
“This car just went really fast behind me. I turned my head to look behind me and as I turned back round, I ran out of kerb.
“I hit a steel girder and snapped my femur in five or six places. Broke my leg and my two hands, the handlebar actually went through my hand, the bone came through my leg.
“It was a life-threatening accident. I was very, very lucky, but at the same time my whole life still got ripped away from me.
“The doctor said I’d never train again. He told me to play darts, and I’m terrible at darts. I don’t drink and I think in a game of darts you need a few pints to get yourself going.”
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Bare-knuckle boxer Dan Chapman has endured a truly difficult journey (Image: Mark Lewis/WalesOnline)
Faced with the prospect of having to turn his back on the sport he loved, Dan took up something of a normal life.
“I wanted to give back to children. With my foster caring background, I knew I could be very handy in primary schools working with children, who were vulnerable, who have poor backgrounds. So that’s why I went into childcare, helping children in children’s homes, and I loved doing it.
“It sort of filled a gap for me.”
Team GB boxing team-mate Campbell, meanwhile, would of course go on to win the Olympic gold Dan so craved, a sight which perhaps reminded him of what might have been.
Whatever the reason, Dan couldn’t stay out of the gym, and quickly realised he could use his experiences in the ring to complement his mentoring work.
“My love was still with teaching kids, particularly ones with behavioural problems and disabilities, but I thought I could still do it in a gym environment.
BKB 21 Free
“That’s what I started to do.
“I started doing kids’ boxing classes, and I started working with a company called Special Families, working with children who are autistic or have Asperger’s and Down syndrome. Every week we did free sessions for them and it just brought a huge spark to the building.
“I had a young boy, who was only about 14 or 15. He was in a wheelchair and we had him sparring. You can imagine what that must have felt like for him. It was something he must have felt he’d never do.”
BKB 21 Free
AT 14 AUG 2021 – 19:00 BST
BKB 21 Fight Card:
Dan Chapman vs Sean George
Mickey Parker vs Dave Thomas
Bachir Fakhouri vs Alex Wilson
BKB 21 Free
Tony Lafferty vs Nathan Leeson
Scott McHugh vs James Lilley
Carl Hobley vs Andrew Ross
Chas Symonds vs Wesley O’Neil
Barrie Jones vs Amir Skrijelj
Daniel Lerwell vs Mason Shaw
Ellis Shepherd vs Gareth Hutchin
BKB 21 Free
“My life was just revolving around drugs, alcohol, domestic abuse, and violence and there was no one to help me.”
Dan Chapman has been a fighter for as long as he can remember after a childhood spent surrounded by the type of things nobody should have to witness.
Aged just 10, he realised he was on his own, cutting ties with those around him and taking a different path.
BKB 21 Free
Today, Dan is now a world champion bare-knuckle fighter, a star of what is perhaps the most brutal sport on the planet, where participants are regularly subjected to utterly horrifying injuries.
And yet, it is rapidly becoming one of the world’s fastest-growing sports.
This Saturday night, he defends his world title against fellow Welshman Sean George in front of around 2,000 fans at London’s O2.
BKB 21 Free
It is the latest chapter in a fighting career which has lasted nearly 20 years, although the realities of this sport can be a shock even for a man of his experience.
“I think it only lasted 45 seconds,” Dan explains, reminiscing about his first bare-knuckle fight.
“I snapped his nose in a jab. I could hear it crunch.
“Even after the fight I went over straight away to see how he was because I knew I’d really hurt him. That’s when I realised just how brutal this sport is.
“But I sort of fell in love with it a little bit.”
That last comment may well send chills down the spine of many.
BKB 21 Free
After all, what kind of bloodthirsty savage would take any modicum of joy out of all this?
When we first meet for this interview, Dan being arguably the antithesis of what one would expect from a bare knuckle fighter confuses things even more.
For one, he’s about 4.5ft tall (his words). But after he emerges from a forest of punch bags and we sit down for an hour-long chat at his gym – a converted play school next to Maesteg Fire Station – there’s also a genuine warmth which shines through, too.
BKB 21 Free
He’s polite, well-spoken, and frequently calls me “champ”.
But let’s get one thing clear: while he may seem a gentleman away from the ring, he is still a capable of unleashing a force which many would find truly terrifying.
“A beautiful chaos” is how he describes it.
BKB 21 Free
Life up until this point has brought its fair share of troubles for the 31-year-old, but has seldom ever been beautiful.
Indeed, being a half-Bangladeshi kid growing up in Swansea arguably brought enough grief on its own, he says.
“When I was in school, I looked like Mowgli,” he remembers with a smirk.
“I had a bowl haircut, the lot. I was tiny. I was so malnourished.
BKB 21 Free
“My breakfast would be raw sausages, so when I went to school I was tiny.
“At comp I found it difficult. I had the odd bully shouting Pakistani, n*****, all these racial remarks.
“But I was tough. I’d have a fight every day until I got respect.
BKB 21 Free
“Even if I lost, or had my head kicked in, I would fight until they wouldn’t call me those names anymore.”
Looking back, he admits it perhaps wasn’t the best way to handle things, but those experiences undoubtedly played a part in forging the fighter Dan would later become.
After first pulling on a pair of gloves at the age of 13, he would go on to become one of the rising stars of a thriving amateur Welsh fight scene, earning 10 Welsh titles.
three British titles and, in 2008, he became the first ever Welshman to win gold at the Commonwealth Youth Games.
But even a man of his pedigree doesn’t come out unscathed in the harsh world of bare-knuckle boxing.
BKB 21 Free
Dan tells how broken hands and retina damage are some of the more notable injuries he’s received in the ring since taking off the gloves, although none of that holds a candle to the pain which unfolded one fateful day back in 2011.
“This isn’t where I wanted to be in my career to be honest. I was qualifying for the 2012 Olympics. I wanted a gold medal.
“I was going to the Olympic qualifiers in Azerbaijan in 2011 and it would have been out of me and Luke Campbell.
“The week before going to Azerbaijan, I came home that weekend and had a motorbike crash.
“That was my use of travel. It was the cheapest way of travelling around.
BKB 21 Free
“This car just went really fast behind me. I turned my head to look behind me and as I turned back round, I ran out of kerb.
“I hit a steel girder and snapped my femur in five or six places. Broke my leg and my two hands, the handlebar actually went through my hand, the bone came through my leg.
“It was a life-threatening accident. I was very, very lucky, but at the same time my whole life still got ripped away from me.
“The doctor said I’d never train again. He told me to play darts, and I’m terrible at darts. I don’t drink and I think in a game of darts you need a few pints to get yourself going.”
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Bare-knuckle boxer Dan Chapman has endured a truly difficult journey (Image: Mark Lewis/WalesOnline)
Faced with the prospect of having to turn his back on the sport he loved, Dan took up something of a normal life.
“I wanted to give back to children. With my foster caring background, I knew I could be very handy in primary schools working with children, who were vulnerable, who have poor backgrounds. So that’s why I went into childcare, helping children in children’s homes, and I loved doing it.
BKB 21 Free
“It sort of filled a gap for me.”
Team GB boxing team-mate Campbell, meanwhile, would of course go on to win the Olympic gold Dan so craved, a sight which perhaps reminded him of what might have been.
Whatever the reason, Dan couldn’t stay out of the gym, and quickly realised he could use his experiences in the ring to complement his mentoring work.
“My love was still with teaching kids, particularly ones with behavioural problems and disabilities, but I thought I could still do it in a gym environment.
BKB 21 Free
“That’s what I started to do.
“I started doing kids’ boxing classes, and I started working with a company called Special Families, working with children who are autistic or have Asperger’s and Down syndrome. Every week we did free sessions for them and it just brought a huge spark to the building.
“I had a young boy, who was only about 14 or 15. He was in a wheelchair and we had him sparring. You can imagine what that must have felt like for him. It was something he must have felt he’d never do.”
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