The Grudge Match the match took place in a boxing ring, it was treated as a boxing match. Each round was three minutes long. Only the referee could stop the fight, and the standard 8-count rule in boxing applied. After three rounds, the audience voted for the winner, which was announced by Buffer. The two opponents try to get as many hits on each other's heads as possible with batakas. In some cases, to level the playing field due to the strength differences in the opponents, one opponent may have his or her shoes tied together and/or only have one bataka, while the
The Boxing Kangaroo Match in Two Rounds by Sgt. Instructor F.Barrett and Sgt. Pope" and "A Prize Fight by Jem Mace and Burke". The year before, German filmmaker Max Skladanowsky had made a similar film depicting a man boxing with a kangaroo, entitled "Das boxende Känguruh". The Boxing Kangaroo The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul's peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring a young boy boxing with a kangaroo. The film was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme, originally shown in a portable booth at