#253. King of the Gypsies Bare Knuckle Fighter - Henry Francis

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

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5 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Henry Francis is a bare-knuckle, fighting gypsy. We talk everything surrounding the traveller community, from 300 street fights, the Fury family and his infamous fight against Bartley Gorman.

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0:00.0	How many fights do you reckon you've had in your law as an adult?
0:02.7	I've had hundreds.
0:03.6	I nearly able to fight an airplane once.
0:06.3	I did.
0:07.1	Hold on.
0:07.7	Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
0:09.8	Explain to the list in the Appleby Fair.
0:11.9	Well, when you go to Appleby, there's all rough men there.
0:14.2	What I fight are men, go to Appleby.
0:15.8	If you went there for a fight, you get best of fair play. No guns, no knives coming out. Sometimes you meet enemies there, yeah.
0:21.3	He rummed it for a fight and he said,
0:22.9	three of us and three years.
0:24.3	As I'm walking down the road,
0:25.9	there's about 40 cars ambushed us.
0:28.3	And he run me over, bang and thought I was dead.
0:30.3	What we through the day of when you had that fight
0:32.5	with Bartley Gorman?
0:33.5	He could fight, He was the King of Gypsies, Bartley Warman. Well Bartlett Gorman said he was, but when he thought me, I'd smash into pieces.
0:41.3	He just kept coming back. Were you crowned King of the Gypsies after that?
0:44.3	Well, that's what they said it was. I didn't pass myself or something. Yeah.
0:47.3	Who do you reckon would have won between you and Bartley Gorman at your peak if you were both the same age?
0:56.9	Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast.
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