WEBVTT - The Criminal Connection 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:02.840 Causer Media. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:11.160 You're listening to the Away Days podcast on the ground outside, 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:17.520 reporting from the underbelly with me Jake Hanrahan. To watch 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:22.520 Awaydays documentaries, go to YouTube dot com slash at away 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:23.280 Days TV. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:27.040 This is part one. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:34.040 No Rules Is No Rules, Episode three. This podcast in 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.440 the production of h Lemon Studio and. 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:37.320 Call Zone Media. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.640 It's a few months since the FPVS fighting can and 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.560 now I'm in Germany or just about mate, we're. 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:54.520 In the middle of nowhere is that the term. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.920 I'm driving through a rundown town right on the border 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.480 with Strasbourg, trying to find the occasion of another No 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:06.160 Rules underground event. There were green hills and traditional scenic 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.720 villages here and there on the drive in, but the 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.400 final destination is honestly a bit of a tip reminds 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.280 me of home. Everything's gray concrete and dying retail parks, 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.200 lad stood on corners and arguments and alleyways. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.160 It's a long long way. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.880 From hipster Berlin, a place where I got laughed at 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.040 by a guy with a waxed mustache when I ordered 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:29.440 a black coffee earlier. In contrast, this morning, in this 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.240 border town, an old fellow wanted to fight because he 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.000 felt I'd parked too close to his car. It's a 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:39.440 long way from Berlin. Indeed, this place is probably perfect 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.600 for cross country smuggling, destitution, drugs, and a poorous border 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.960 with France. I'm not too surprised there's an underground fight 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.120 club here. We're a long way from Cannes as well. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.400 The fight club I'm heading to is called Frontier, perhaps 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.120 named after the Franco Alamande Frontier border cross into the 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.960 west of the city. Frontier is much more of an 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:07.320 illicit organization than FPVSTPVS, for example, has the tagline just 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.320 do sport and no one gets paid. Frontiers tagline is 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:15.359 respect of the streets and fighters do get paid, not much, 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:19.080 but they get something, whether at least opposed to moren that. Later, 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.760 the GPS directs me out of the city and onto 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.799 the outskirts. I drive through a small rural town and 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.440 pull up to a long dirt road. Fight club is 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.920 this way. Halfway down the track, there's a pit stop 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:37.080 restaurant with a few heavy you stood outside, tall fellas 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:41.320 with thick necks, sunglasses and a scary tracksuits. I pull 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.280 up next to them and wind down my window. Blonde 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:45.960 guy with a back he could break a chair on. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.240 Comes up to the car. He nods slightly, asking what 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.560 I want. Do you know where the fights are? 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:52.119 I ask? 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.840 He laughs and looks around, kind of uncertain. Maybe he 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.000 thinks I'm a cop. He takes a drag of his 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.640 cigarette the fight. He asks, Yes, I'm here to see Lavvy. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.640 I say, Lavvy is the guy who runs Frontier. Ah, 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.240 says Blondie. He nods, it's all good. He points to 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.440 a fairly large but otherwise inconspicuous building in the near distance. 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.000 It sits opposite some horse stables, which are obscuring most 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.160 of the structure. But I can see where to go. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.280 A park up on the side of the road and 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:26.040 get out the car. Everything is rock, gravel and mud underfoot. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.400 The building looks like a British workingman's club or an 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:34.000 old function hall, Beige, drab, forgettable. It's tucked away, just 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.760 off the road, surrounded by forgotten allotments and overgrown fields. 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.400 If you use to fancy things, you might think the 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:44.000 area is completely abandoned. It's not, though life goes on. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.640 It's just an under the table sort of location. I 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.120 text Lavvy. He calls to say he'll be out in 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:55.160 a bit. As I wait, more cars start arriving, black 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:59.960 range rovers with black windows, boy racer hatchbacks, white work vans, 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.760 vehicles for activities other than driving. Lovvy shouts over to 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.920 me from the hall entrance and comes strolling over here. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.320 Is it yes, exectly middle of nowhere? Yes, executive. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.320 He's wearing a black face covering pulled up to his 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.320 eyes and a bright red zip up jacket with the 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:27.080 frontier logo embroidered into it. His hair is shaved short, 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.200 and he's about six foot. He's slim but built like 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.440 a fighter. He approaches me warmly and we shake hands. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.080 Lobby is upbeat and immediately friendly. In the back of 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.600 his head, he's got a cab. All cops are bastards 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.560 tattooed in large black letter with a butterfly knife underneath. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.360 It's a real career and the type of tattoo it's incredible. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:50.400 I love that in the. 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:56.880 Back of your head, man, I'll tell us some beautiful. 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.280 Lobby is instantly likable. There's zero front and no foot 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.279 to come across toff. In my experience, it's guys like 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.800 this who are actually about it. He's nice, but I'm 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:08.719 sure he'd have my skull caved in if needs be. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.560 He tells me that outside of the fight clubs, he 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:24.240 works at security, which could mean many different things. Immediately 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.760 inside the building, there's an entrance hall where four men 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.599 wearing balaclavas are stood waiting. They're each holding a baseball 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.240 bat underground security. They nod at Lava and me and 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.320 we're fine. Nobody search needed when the boss man is it. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.960 The security guy's waivers passed through two double doors into 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:46.599 the main hall. Inside there's noise and lights and people 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.600 filling in through an unseen back entrance. All along the 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.760 edges there are permanent booths with tables here and there. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.960 On the walls, there's framed generic mail order arts, jazz 0:05:56.000 --> 0:06:00.120 bands in Italian kitchens. Fluorescent ceiling bulbs keep everything thing 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.520 washed out. At the back of the room there's a 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.839 small bar, and through that there's a corridor to a 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:09.040 smaller function room. This place is a social club, only 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.960 it's being transformed. In the middle of the room, there's 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.400 a makeshift ring made of heavy duty Herris fencing. The 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.279 portable galvanized steel frames you get on the perimeter of 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.960 a building site. They are about ten foot tall. With 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.360 fence blocks and clips holding them together. The fights take 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:28.760 place inside this improvised arena. The floor is flat concrete. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.839 As I'm walking through the room with lav a spot 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.200 and no rules. Fighter from back home in the UK, 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:39.320 it's bash. Apparently he's fighting today. He notices me and 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:54.240 comes over to say hi happily. Over the next half hour, 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.680 the social club is converted into the fight club. There 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.480 will be around five or six fights today. A big 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.560 frontier banner is cable tied to the fences. There's maybe 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.679 one hundred people inside now, dozens of them with large 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.640 face tattoos, big guys, and big jackets, many in balaclavers. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.880 I get chatting to one of the fighters who tells 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:17.360 me these people are largely members of serious organized motorcycle gangs. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.120 I can believe it. I spot more than a few 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:24.040 Hells Angels, one percent of tattoos, and various other motorcycle 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.840 gang logos. The crowd is heavy. There are contingents here 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.720 that are definitely not friends, but for now the fighting 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.720 is contained. This is a far cry from the young 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:35.080 rogues of FPVS. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:36.440 This is a fight. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.480 Club with a much stronger criminal element. If you fuck 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.920 around in here, in this nowhere town border area. You 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:59.000 might just vanish. Lava's weaving in and out of the 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.240 crowd of rapid pays trying to get things organized. A 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.239 DJ is playing ship music and everyone is chatting non stop. 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.640 There's an electric in the air. Fighters are sat around 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.560 with their respective groups. Hands are getting wrapped, limbs are 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.280 getting stretched. Today is a big one. It's the first 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.040 time ever the women will be taking part in a 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.800 no rules fight club. Two female fighters are planned with 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.880 around four male fights as Labby heads outside to check 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.600 the cops are not sniffing around and grabbing for a second, 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:34.240 to talk about frontier What is frontier respected the streets? 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.520 Frontier respect off the streets are something who what we 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.560 built from the first fighter was the first fighter had 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.960 a problem with other people in the ghetto of Strasbourg. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:48.880 Then we was fighting and after that we're filmed more 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.800 and the Corona played us Willy in the cards because 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.679 the jobs was not any more there. We come all 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.560 from the street, from the security at the erotic business 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.319 and other things, and that's why Corona closed all. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:02.720 So we was boring. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.560 Also because we trained together, we worked at a door together, 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.720 and that's why we fought because it was also boring 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.319 and with that we tried to come up. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.120 So basically, Lovey and his entourage were involved in running 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.960 security for strip clubs and or maybe brothels in this area. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.800 When COVID hit and shut things down, those illicit businesses 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.280 mostly fell apart. At the same time, love had an 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.400 issue with some lads in Strasbourg. His crew went over. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.480 Lovey had a fight and someone decided to film it. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:40.760 From this frontier was sort of accidentally born. With himself 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.360 and a load of violent heavies out of work, Lovey 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.719 decided to form the Fight Club, essentially just to give 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.760 them an outlet whilst there was fuck all to do 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:49.640 during COVID. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.920 And what's happening today today? 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.439 You will see blood, you will see crazy fights. Yes, 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.000 and so god will nobody will die? Yes? 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.520 Why is it like underground fighting is becoming really popular 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:03.040 in Europe? 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:04.040 Now? Why do you think that is? 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.199 It's like a game, you know, we are still kids 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.720 like that, we want to play. Yes, it's a special thing, 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.160 you know. Not everybody does it. Everybody make maybe box 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.199 and all we respect all the spots. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:19.199 But that is other. When you make a mistake, it's over. 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.560 No referee say hey, come up again and blah blah blah. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:23.360 It's more brutal. 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.959 It's more brutal. Yes, so these. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.520 Fights happening today, no rules, it says, no rules. What 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:30.080 does that mean? 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:31.840 Completely with no rules? 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:36.400 So buying yes, exactly, high gouge yes, kick yes, like. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.120 In the street. You have to win, you have to survive. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.839 Nobody ask in the street because the honor. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.520 You know, you guys are selling this like pay per view, right, 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.719 some people can watch it. How does that work out? 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:50.360 It does it make money for you guys? 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.640 It should be because it's much work inside and when 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.719 you think about all the hours, all the days we 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:00.120 put inside. Also we have also families. For myself, I 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.480 have two daughters. I take that time for the club, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.360 you know, and it have also to pay because at 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.640 the end I have discussions with my family, why you 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.760 don't have time blah blah blah, you know, and for 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.160 that I want also a little bit for myself. And yes, 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.560 but it's not about it's not really about money. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:16.920 Of course. 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.679 It all costs really much to make that, to get 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.199 the people here at that and that and. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:26.120 It small passion, passion, it's passion because I make that. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.520 Now we make that no three years and there was 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.760 nothing big money, you know, And we have discipline because 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.520 we see the goal and one day it will be yes. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.160 So for lovely things are a little different. He wants 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:40.040 to make money from this. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:41.080 He has to. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.880 He's put a lot of time and effort into organizing 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.480 the fight club, so why shouldn't he read the benefits today? 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.240 View it all across the world, although mostly Europe, will 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.960 be able to pay around ten euros to watch several 0:11:55.160 --> 0:12:00.000 No Rules fights live and direct from Frontier Livey himself 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.440 won't be fighting, but unlike some of the other fight clubs, 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.640 he the leader of Frontier, has fought before as part 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.000 of his own No Rules fight club. 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.560 I fought four times here on my own, but I think, 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.840 you know, I should give other people the chance because 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.360 I'm also we make that, so we are in the business, 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.120 so I don't I don't have also to fight, and 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.720 I don't want a personal thing only about me. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.040 It's about the fighters, you know. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.440 And yes, no rules fighting as far as somewhere like 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.560 it's very illegal, right what would happen if like the 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.280 police came down here or whatever. 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.080 Then many people run. Yes, it's like that. 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.760 Really you're not worried about like them coming after your rest, and. 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.440 I would be stupid if I'm not worried, you know. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:53.000 But it's like, yes, it's like that, we've we respected 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:57.360 and all. But if it happens, then it happens. Yes, 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.800 we are prepared for that, but you're never safe. Yeah, 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.920 So no risk, no fun, no champagne. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.319 Your security guys who got like bats and weapons and 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.880 they're searching people. Is they usually trouble from outside at 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:10.560 these things? 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.560 Not really, But you have to be careful because we 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:18.880 are many different groups, many different characters, and we want 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.320 to be safe just in case. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:21.280 Yes, exactly. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:22.960 Some people say like this stuff. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.839 People say this is too brutal, You shouldn't be doing it, 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.320 it's dangerous, blah blah blah. 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:28.199 What do you think about that? 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.520 I think everybody have to decide that for his own 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.600 And of course it's brutal, it's all that things, you know, 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.559 But there are some people, you know, there are soldiers, 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.040 and there are people who are normally us, and you 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.840 have to decide for yourself what side you are. And 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.480 in some people it grows. They cannot stop that, they 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.440 cannot make in the office. No, they make that and 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.920 other people are in the office. We need both of 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.520 the people, you know, but we are from the other side. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.160 You couldn't do that, right, You couldn't go to normal 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:06.320 work the you prefer fighting. Yes, If that wasn't clear, 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.000 Lovey points out something that I think is pretty interesting here. 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.880 He acknowledges that brutal no rules fighting is of course 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.800 not for everybody, but he also says the more sedentary 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:21.480 office work and nine to five type lifestyle is also 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.400 not for everybody. It's not for them, that's for sure. However, 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.640 he also says that we need both types of people 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.840 in this world. Unlike most of the people I've spoke 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.280 to in regards to no rules fight clubs, I think 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:39.000 love is probably onto something yin and yang in the 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:43.320 most violent way possible. The events start today, right, So 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.560 there's people come in all over from all over. What 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.320 kind of people are coming to fight? How do you 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:48.840 get hold of them? How do they contact you? 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.880 The underworld? Yeah, it's underworld. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.040 Yes, what do you think it's gonna happen today? If 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:54.360 you're good? 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:56.240 I hope so, I hope. 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.360 So it will be a massive yes, and the most thing, 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.560 of course, it will to be brutal, but I would 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.920 like if I would say, I hope that something happens 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.200 really like an accident. You know, we are happy when 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.240 the people after can drink a beer, check you cola 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:14.040 and are happy, you know, and have Maybe I like that, okay, 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.720 but we also don't want that. That's why we have 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.360 to be really careful because it's a concered ground, right. 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.680 You don't want anyone to like be like damaged for life, 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:23.720 of course not. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.400 We love to fight, Yes, it's the fight. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.040 What do you think like King of the Streets you 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:29.800 guys call with them? 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.040 Of course, of course they are of that. 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:37.600 Again, all roads lead to King of the Streets. To 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.400 properly understand no rules, I need to go to a 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:45.480 Cots fight. It's very, very difficult for reporters though. The 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.880 leader is extremely paranoid and does not allow anyone in 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.280 that's close to the media. Cotts is about as hardcore 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.320 as it gets in this scene. In some of their videos, 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:59.000 they even brandish firearms, and I don't mean handguns. I'm 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.000 talking semi or traumatic rifles. In Europe, that is a 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.920 big deal. You don't get hold of such weapons unless 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:10.000 you're well connected in the criminal underworld. Anytime I've reached 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.640 out to Kots. They don't reply. I wouldn't reply either. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:28.920 Where there's a will, there's a way. Whilst Frontier is 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.640 hardly doors open for anyone, it was definitely easier to 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.080 get this access. I showed Lava Lord of my previous work, 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.320 and he believed in the ethos of the Away Day's 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.240 project as a whole. Once that was sorted and a 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:49.760 few people vouch for me, it was on. So Here 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.600 I am on the outskirts of Germany, waiting for the 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.640 fights to begin. I noticed two of the women fighters 0:16:55.680 --> 0:17:00.000 getting ready. One is very short, with big fake eyelashes, 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:04.920 a leopard print face tattoo, and lots of lipstick. She's 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:09.000 dressed in a bright red Frontier tracksuit with black leather 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:13.879 high heeled boots, and she's still very short. Her vibes 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.840 are incredible. She's very nervous, so I decided to leave 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.720 a bee and speak to her after the fight. One 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.360 of the other fighters is getting her hands wrapped in tape, 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.600 knuckles bare, but hands secured so us to help from breaking. 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.600 She's tall, lean and with face, hand and neckattoos. She 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:36.359 goes by the nickname Agro Terror. She seems shy, but 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.840 she's happy to talk. She tells me she works at 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.760 a bar and says she wants to fight to prove 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:44.080 something to herself. Can she do it? Is she brave enough? 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.359 I ask her what she thinks about doing this in 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:50.520 such a male dominated world. Some men, no doubt in 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.119 this scene, would say that women should not do no 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:58.920 rules without skipping a beat. She simply replies, well, those men. 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.760 Should shut up. I laugh, she laughs. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:03.600 I wish her good luck and I let her be 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.840 as she goes to get prepared for the fight. Suddenly 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.399 I see Bash making a beeline for me through the crowd. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.520 He looks distressed, with the only Brits here, so maybe 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:17.240 there's some solidarity, but in this crowd there's absolutely fuck 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.919 all I can do if there's trouble. But Bash explains 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.120 basically he's worried about one of the other women who 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.480 are fighting. I've not seen her yet, but he's telling 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.880 me he's offered to give her money. Why, well, it's 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:34.160 convoluted and Bash has unfortunately been drinking. But essentially what 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.720 he tells me at least is that the opponent picked 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.040 for agro Terra is a Romanian German single mother down 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:43.080 on her luck. She's apparently only fighting for the money 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.720 so she can help her kids. She doesn't train, apparently, 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.760 and she has no real experience, whereas agro Terra does mma. 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.439 Bash is visibly upset about this. I can see why 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.560 it's hardly an even match if this is true. Whilst 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:01.679 no rules might be a deeply underground activity, generally equal 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.359 ability fight to the norm. If not to be fair, 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:09.720 then to be entertainment. Scott for example, usually only has 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.800 the best of the best at their events. It's rare 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:16.119 to see someone trampled over in a minute, if what 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.560 Bash is saying it is true, though we could see 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.919 that happen with the first female no rules here at Frontier. 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:27.919 Something doesn't seem right. Fash wanders off to speak to 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.120 his wife. He's flown up with him as usual. Soon 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.119 he's got to fight a lad known as Underdog. This 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.280 guy has been shadow boxing in a corner with his 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.960 earphones in the whole time we've been here. Underdog looks 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.560 about half Bash's weight, but he's lighting his feet and 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.320 looks pretty able. With Bash's experience, though, he should steam 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.919 through Underdog easy well if he can sober up fast. 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.560 The last groups of people filter in through the front 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:03.159 after being frisked. At this point, when everyone's in, Lavy 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.919 checks the curtains are drawn and announces that all the 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:10.840 doors have now been locked were shut in. No one 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.520 will be coming in or going out whilst the fights 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.960 are taking place. It's kind of ominous, but it also 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.760 makes sense in regard to security. There's a ton of 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:25.320 criminals in here, including biker gangs, drug dealers, hooligans, and 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:30.439 street fighters. Not to mention the illegal underground fighting taking place. 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.680 You want as few people messing around outside as possible 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.359 in case police drive by and check what's going on. 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:41.960 It's packing here. 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:45.879 The whole crowd is going wild. People grab hold of 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.960 the Herris fencing and rattle it non stop. It sounds 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:52.840 like thunder. The energy here is a lot different to FPVS. 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:57.280 I think the crowd here is more dangerous than the fighters. 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:01.680 Every creed, color, and orientation of criminals is here. There 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.919 were big dogs on big chains, two men in balaclavas, 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:07.920 and women with their partners names tattooed across one side 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:12.159 of their forehead. This is the underworld. People here have 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.879 chosen to live outside of society, for better or worse. 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:25.200 The first fighters approach the fenced off area, two lads 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:26.760 in their twenties lightweight. 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.200 The fight is unremarkable, honestly. 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:32.959 To well win the wind milling hooks that mostly miss 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:47.760 lasts about two minutes. But then after that fight comes Bash. 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:52.960 The fence parts. Lavvy strides in. Bash follows, Underdog follows. 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.920 The latter is a local lad and clearly a crowd favorite. 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.159 Group of around a dozen young men in tracksuit some 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:04.840 bandanas pulled up to their eyes, goes crazy for him. 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.080 One of them next to me grabs me in excitement, 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:14.000 jumps up and down. They cannot wait. Underdog looks ready. 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:18.080 Bash is honestly looking a little worse for wear. The 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.480 confidence he walked with when I first saw him fighting 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:24.119 Hastings is gone. If anything, he looks a little weary. 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:27.800 He keeps touching his face and saying fucking hell under 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:31.520 his breath as he enters the makeshift arena. For all 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:34.440 his faults. I like Bash, honestly, I want to see 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.720 him win. On the run up to the fight, he 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.800 was saying online that he's planning to bite off Underdog's ears. 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.959 That energy door it seems long gone. He's holding himself 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:46.160 in a way that says he just wants to get 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:49.840 this over with. Underdog, The younger man, by at least 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:52.920 a decade, is still full of beans ready to go. 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:55.399 The two fighters meet in the middle. 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:11.320 Bash pushes forward, hands down and throws a very badly 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:15.240 timed kick. Underdog catches it with his shin and Bash 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:20.080 instantly goes down, falling over himself, hitting the concrete. Underdog 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:23.840 kicks it in wildly, mostly missing, sometimes kicking Bash's legs 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:25.920 as he spins around on his back trying to find 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:29.440 some kind of way to get up. Underdog leans over, 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:31.919 Bash punches him in the head a few times, and 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:35.120 then toe punts him straight in the face. Bash's head 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:38.719