Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago

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Daniel Mendoza is one of the most famous fighters from the Bare knuckle era. Yet at the time there was a man equally famous, with at least as good a reputation as a fighter as he had.

This is the story of how the two men, Daniel Mendoza and Richard Humphries, went from friends and raining partners, to bitter rivals.

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