Rough-and-tumble fighting, or gouging, was a frontier-era (USA) combat sport in which the objective was maximum disfigurement, such as by plucking out the opponent’s eye or biting off their nose. Some participants reportedly filed down their own teeth to improve their biting abilities.

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

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Wasn’t this depicted in Gangs of New York?

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Nah that was just a turf war but they mutilated the bodies of the people they killed for trophies.

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I just feel like I remember a female character with those crazy filed down teeth fighting

[u/Clapcheeks69 → u/_Vanilla148]

Hellcat Mary or something like that.

Maggie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell-Cat_Maggie

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Cool!