TIL of Rough and Tumble Fighting or "Gouging", a martial art attested from rural southern and frontier areas in the 18th and 19th centuries in which mutilation of the opponent was a basic fighting technique (disturbing description)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_and_tumble_fighting
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