Mark my words. THIS WILL BE HUGE!

I think the idea is to do a fictional series possibly loosely based on the actual story . Irvine Welsh, the writer of the novel Trainspotting, The Acid House, Ecstasy and Glue among others has been chosen to write the pilot. If it goes down well a series will follow.

Welsh has written plenty about the Scottish underclass and has lived in Dublin for the past 5 years so is ideally located to research the story, meet the travelling community and get a real feel for the subject matter. Add in his gritty writing style and he seems like an excellent choice.

The top fighter from the documentary was professionally trained. I’m from Australia and bare knuckle boxing is done every weekend in a BIG way in the city, valley and I agree the fights were interesting but I have seen some fights here go a lot longer with clean hits resulting in very bad outcomes. Most of the boys fighting here have not been trained but in Australia if you like to go out drinking 8 out of 10 times will result in some altercation and if you can’t fight you’re going to get hurt seems to be getting worse these days but its nearly always fair and no weapons as is the Australian way. They need to do a documentary about young Aussies… HHmm I think I just had an idea.

I did enjoy Knuckle very interesting insight into the Traveler culture.


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