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A bareknuckle boxer who starred in an award-winning documentary has vowed to come out of retirement and fight for €30,000.

James Quinn McDonagh was never defeated during his career as a street brawler but in a new video the Traveller accepted a challenge from a longtime rival.

His confrontation with John Joyce, 38, has already been billed as a battle to be crowned “King of the Travellers”.

However, he has set down a number of conditions.

Quinn McDonagh said: “One, no bandages whatsoever.

“No gloves, no bandages, just solid bareknuckle.

“Number two, shut up or put up €30,000. Not sterling, not dollars – €30,000 we will have a fight for, winner takes all.”

The Quinn McDonaghs and the Joyces have been locked in a bitter feud for two decades.

The families fell out in 1992 after a Quinn McDonagh killed a Joyce in a fight in a pub.

There have been a series of illegal fights over the past 20 years and this was the subject of hit documentary Knuckle, which was aired on RTE.

Quinn McDonagh said he had quit the bloody sport following the release of the film and a book, also called Knuckle.

But the Irish Mirror can reveal he is willing to start training again and take on Joyce.

And Quinn McDonagh said he wants Canadian bareknuckle boxer Bobby Gunn to referee the fight.

In his three-minute video he mocked his potential opponent’s father Big Joe Joyce.

He said he rated the mustachioed brawler and his sons as “middle of the road type men”. Quinn McDonagh added: “That goes to you Big Joe as well. I don’t rate you, I never did, no one does.

“You’re a made-up man of people hyping you up on YouTube. You go and do what you have to do in your own life and stay out of mine.”

Quinn McDonagh uploaded the video this week and a short time later John Joyce responded.

He said he accepted Gunn as a referee but listed his own terms. John Joyce added: “Me and you James, 110%, any part of Ireland. Me and you have to fight.

“Your son Hughie has to come out to my brother Joe. Bobby Gunn told me he will travel back to Ireland and take us out the road. That’ll be the way. The money you are talking about, that is only a joke.

“I am ready, James, to fight tomorrow. James, I’m ready to fight you in an hour’s time.

“We’ll leave you back until August as well, the 10th of August. We are good enough to beat ye and that’s the most important thing.”

cathal.mcmahon@irishmirror.ie