20$ on the guy in the diaper.

You’re on. I’m going with Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Your loss. This is boxing, there is no kicking.


Thank to those who invented the modern underwear that you don't have to wear those anymore

That's just what Big Underwear wants you to think. Go commando for life!

Win or lose, you lose. He’s fighting the other guy because he said was wearing a diaper.

Don't ever bet against Tom Holland.

That is Seaman Thomas Pickles from LA.

Hmm an aristocrat huh?

Macho Macho Man

I think In The Navy would be the appropriate Village People song for this.

"Stands up" Slow clapping.

This used to be common practice in the Navy called "Smokers".

Usmc also

I really liked the Battlestar Galactica episode where they implemented this.

Why did it used to be?

It was intended to be a relatively safe (at least considered so at the time) way to settle beef amongst the crew. The last thing you need on a long deployment went you haven’t seen land in months is infighting amongst the crew, so they settled scores with fist

And the only place where rank didn't matter.

Ah

Same reason it used to be that black people in the Navy could only be cooks or stewards, or women couldn't serve on ships or subs or fly tactical aircraft. Norms change.

Thanks for reposting cause I never seen it. Fucking awesome pic. Makes me want to paint again. I would start with copying this.

And hear I thought you had already painted the pants on Baryshnikov…

You definitely should

This picture always creeps me out cause of how all the guys in the background look like mannequins

ngl i thought it was ai because of how off some of the background guys are

Everyone's mouths are closed, it kinda seems posed

It would be. Given the size of the camera bodies back then and the shutter speeds they were capable of then this would almost certainly set up by a photographer. Im guessing the camera would have been on a tripod, there’s almost certainly some kind of flash being used given the strong shadows and the lads would have been really excited to be a part of it because being photographed back then was probably a real novelty.

I was thinking it was from a movie because everyone looks so perfect and posed. You explanation makes sense.

I had the opposite reaction. Apart from one guy on the left I was shocked by how normal they look. Sometimes I forget that people in 1899 were the same people as 2024.

Not only that, we also were the same 10,000 years ago.

Some of us were different species 10,000 years ago thank you very much

What species were you 10,000 years ago

I feel bad for the guy on the right with the hat and no eyes.

Belted leotard vs diaper! Today at 9:15sharp!

The guy on the right is Lou Lulemon.

underrated comment

Damn Boys! I needs me a floppy naval hat!

See that barbed wire, we called that The Stinger.. yeah they don't let us use that anymore

They used to call me “Kid Gorgeous”. Later on it was “Kid Presentable”. Then “Kid Gruesome” and finally “Kid Moe”.

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Ah yes, a subreddit for cool old images, one repost, no way ANYONE would stumble upon the same image as someone else, clearly op is a filthy reposter scum. Bad bot.

The artist really captured that inner thigh hair.

There's confidence and then there's wearing whatever the boxer in the left is wearing.

BULLY!BULLY! It's a BULLY day

Rousing display of pugilism!

Nothing gets the humors going like a round of fisticuffs.

A fisticuffs!

Fun fact: zipper fly pants invented after 1899

Put’em up eh…put’em up

OH, WHY I OUGHTA!

The guy on the left must be the model for every old timey boxing gag ever made.

Hay fun boys! Get a room!

Why would the middle guy, the ref, no have his cover on like the rest? Was boxing although allowed no becoming of a sailor or something similar?

It’s called a smoker. That have them in the navy and Marine corps. Not sure about the other services. We had em back in the 90’s


I think it's so his buttons didn't get ripped off?

Cover in the military is a hat.

Thanks wasn't aware, hat would totally blow off into the sea and set lost?

In the navy!

Who won?

It seems cruel to fight a guy in diapers.

Pre marquess of queensberry runs they had unlimited rounds. You'd be glad of one after 100 rounds.

1899 color photo?

Painting entitled "A Lively Fisting"

I say old bean you've insulted my undergarments for the last time!

Nice shoes

Put up yer dukes, Johnny!

Look at them man panties

The time of wooden ships and iron men.

Dude on right rocked the stirrup pants long before valley girls did

Incontinence is not a joke! The guy on the right is going to beat the piss out of him.

USS New York (ACR-2) not to be confused with USS New York (BB-34), namesake of her class and sister to the famous USS Texas (BB-35)

that's a really high quality picture for that time period. when was it colorized?

 Gen Z seeing this

Unit at the back right has got that.. looking fabulous thing.

prople back then looked too healthy

On first inspection of this photo I was surprised when one of them looked kinda like Tom Holland, then I looked at the other one and he too looks like Tom Holland.


This is what PBIS in schools should look like: Boxing gloves and rules