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It's a few months since the FPVS fight in Cannes and now I'm in Germany or just about.

Mate, we're in the middle of nowhere.

Is that the term?

I'm driving through a rundown town right on the border with Strasbourg, trying to find the location of another no rules underground event.

There were green hills and traditional scenic villages here and there on the drive in but the final destination is honestly a bit of a tip.

Reminds me of home.

Everything's grey concrete and dying retail parks.

Lads stood on corners and arguments in alleyways.

It's a long, long way from hips to Berlin.

A place where I got laughed at by a guy with a waxed mustache when I ordered a black coffee earlier.

In contrast, this morning in this border town an old fellow wanted to fight because he felt I'd parked too close to his car.

It's a long way from Berlin indeed.

This place is probably perfect for cross-country smuggling, destitution, drugs and a porous border with France.

I'm not too surprised there's an underground fight club here.

We're a long way from Cannes as well.

The fight club I'm heading to is called Frontier, perhaps named after the the Franco Alamande Frontier border crossing to the west of the city.

Frontier is much more of an illicit organisation than FPVS.

FPVS for example has the tagline just do sport and no one gets paid.

Frontier's tagline is respect of the streets and fighters do get paid.

Not much but they get something or they're at least supposed to.

More on that later.

The GPS directs me out of the city and onto the outskirts.

I drive through a small rural town and pull up to a long dirt road.

Fight Club is this way.

Halfway down the track there's a pit stop restaurant with a few heavy who stood outside.

Tall fellas with thick necks, sunglasses and Iscari track suits.

I pull up next to them and wind down my window.

A blonde guy with a back you could break a chair on comes up to the car.

He nods slightly asking what I want.

Do you know where the fight's at?

I ask.

He laughs and looks around, kind of uncertain.

Maybe he thinks I'm a cop.

He takes a drag of his cigarette.

The fight?

he asks.

I'm here to see Lavie, I say.

Lavi is the guy who runs Frontier.

Ah, says Blondie.

He nods.

It's all good.

He points to a fairly large but otherwise inconspicuous building in the near distance.

It sits opposite some horse stables which are obscuring most of the structure, but I can see where to go.

I park up on the side of the road and get out the car.

Everything is rock gravel and mud underfoot.

The building looks like a British working man's club or an old function hall.

Beige, drab, forgettable.

It's tucked away just off the road, surrounded by forgotten allotments and overgrown fields.

If you're used to fancy things you might think the area is completely abandoned.

It's not though, life goes on.

It's just an under-the-table sort of location.

I text Lavi.

He calls to say he'll be out in a bit.

As I wait, more cars start arriving.

Black range rovers with black windows boy racer hatchbacks white work vans vehicles for activities other than driving Lavi shouts over to me from the hall entrance and comes strolling over

He's wearing a black face covering pulled up to his eyes and a bright red zip-up jacket with the frontier logo embroidered into it.

His hair is shaved short and he's about six foot.

He's slim but built like a fighter.

He approaches me warmly and we shake hands.

Lavby is upbeat and immediately friendly.

In the back of his head, he's got Acab.

All the cops are bastards, tattooed in large black letter with a butterfly knife underneath.

It's a real career ender type of tattoo.

It's incredible.

I love that tattoo in the back of your head, man.

Yes, thank you.

All colours are beautiful.

Lavi is instantly likable.

There's zero front and no effort to come across Tough.

In my experience, it's guys like this who are actually about it.

He's nice, but I'm sure he'd have my skull caved in if needs be.

He tells me that outside of the fight clubs, he works security, which could mean many different things.

Immediately inside the building, there's an entrance hall where four men wearing balaclavas are stood waiting.

They're each holding a baseball bat.

Underground security.

They nod at Lavi and me and we're fine.

No body search needed when the boss man is here.

The security guys wave us past through two double doors into the main hall.

Inside there's noise and lights and people filling in through an unseen back entrance.

All along the edges there are permanent booths with tables.

Here and there on the walls there's frame generic mail order art, jazz bands and Italian kitchens.

Fluorescent ceiling bulbs keep everything washed out.

At the back of the room there's a small bar and through that there's a corridor to a smaller function room.

This place is a social club, only it's been transformed.

In the middle of the room there's a makeshift ring made of heavy duty Harris fencing.

The portable galvanized steel frames you get on the perimeter of a building site.

They're about 10 foot tall with fence blocks and clips holding them together.

The fights take place inside this improvised arena.

The floor is flat concrete.

As I'm walking through the room with Lavi, I spot a no-rules fighter from back home in the UK.

It's Bash.

Apparently, he's fighting today.

He notices me and comes over to say hi happily.

Over the next half hour, the social club is converted into the fight club.

There will be around five or six fights today.

A big frontier banner is cable-tied to the fences.

There's maybe a hundred people inside now, dozens of them with large face tattoos, big guys in big jackets, many in balaclavas.

I get chatting to one of the fighters who tells me these people are largely members of serious organized motorcycle gangs.

I can believe it.

I spot more than a few Hell's Angels 1% of tattoos and various other motorcycle gang logos.

The crowd is heavy.

There are contingents here that are definitely not friends, but for now the fighting is contained.

This is a far cry from the young rogues of FPVS.

This is a fight club with a much stronger criminal element.

If you fuck around in here, in this nowhere town border area, you might just vanish.

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Lavi is weaving in and out of the crowd at rapid pace, trying to get things organised.

A DJ is playing shit music and everyone is chatting non-stop.

There's an electric in the air.

Fighters are sat around with their respective groups.

Hands are getting wrapped, limbs are getting stretched.

Today is a big one.

It's the first time ever that women will be taking part in a no rules fight club.

Two female fights are planned with around four male fights.

As Labby heads outside to check the cops are not sniffing around, I grab him for a second to talk about Frontier.

What is Frontier Respect of the Streets?

Frontier Respect of the Streets is something what we built from the first fight.

I was the first fighter, I had a problem with other people in the ghetto of Strasbourg.

Then we was fighting.

And after that

we filmed more and the corona played us really in the cards because the jobs was not anymore there.

We come all from the street, from the security, at the erotic business and other things.

And that's why Corona closed all.

So we were boring also because we trained together, we worked at the door together.

And that's why we fought because it was also boring.

And with that, we tried

just to come up.

So basically, Lavi and his entourage were involved in running security for strip clubs and or maybe brothels in this area.

When COVID hit and shut things down, those illicit businesses mostly fell apart.

At the same time, Lavi had an issue with some lads in Strasbourg.

His crew went over, Lavi had a fight, and someone decided to film it.

From this, Frontier was sort of accidentally born.

With himself and a load of violent heavies out of work, Lavi decided to form the fight club.

Essentially, just to give them an outlet, whilst there was fuck all to do during COVID.

And what's happening today?

Today you will see blood, you will see crazy fights, yes.

And so God will, nobody will die, yes.

Why is it like this underground fighting is becoming really popular in Europe now?

Why do you think that is?

It's like a game, you know.

We are still kids like that.

We want to play, yes.

It's a special thing, you know.

Not everybody does it.

Everybody make maybe bogs and all.

We respect all the sports, but that is other.

When you make a mistake, it's over.

No referees say, hey, come up again, and blah, blah, blah.

It's more brutal.

It's more brutal, yes.

So these fights happening today, no rules.

It says no rules.

What does that mean?

Completely with no rules.

So biting?

Yes, exactly.

Eye gouge.

Yes.

Kick.

Yes.

Like in the street,

you have to win, you have to survive.

Nobody asks in the street because the honor, you know.

You guys are selling this like pay-per-view, right?

So people can watch it.

How does that work out?

Does it make money for you guys?

It should be because it's much work inside.

And when you think about all the hours all the days we put inside also we have also families for myself i have two daughters uh i take that time for the club you know and it have also to pay because at the end i have discussions with my family why you don't have time blah blah blah you know and for that i want also a little bit for myself and yes but it's not about it's not really about money of course we've it all costs really much to make that to get the people here that and that and it's more passion passion it's passion Because I make that now we make that now three years and there was nothing big money you know and we have discipline because we see the goal and one day it will be.

Yes.

So for Lavi things are a little different.

He wants to make money from this.

He has to.

He's put a lot of time and effort into organizing the fight club so why shouldn't he reap the benefits?

Today, viewers all across the world, although mostly Europe, will be able to pay around 10 euros to watch several no rules fights live and direct from Frontier.

Lavi himself won't be fighting but unlike some of the other fight clubs he the leader of Frontier has fought before as part of his own no rules fight club.

I fought four times here on my own but I think you know I should give other people the chance because I'm also

we make that so we are in the business so I don't I don't have also to fight and I don't want a personal thing only about me, it's about the fighters, you know.

And yes.

No rules fight, and as far as I'm aware, like it's very illegal, right?

What would happen if the police came down here or whatever?

Then many people run.

Yes, it's like that, really.

You're not worried about them coming after you, arresting you?

I would be stupid if I'm not worried, you know.

But

it's like that.

Yes, it's like that.

We respect that and all, but

if it happens, then it happens.

Yes, we are prepared for that, but you are never safe.

Yeah.

So no risk, no fun, no champagne with that.

Your security guys have all got like bats and weapons and they're searching people.

Is there usually trouble from outside at these things?

Not really, but you have to be careful because

there are many different groups, yes.

Many different characters and we want to be safe.

Just in case.

Yes, exactly.

Some people say like this stuff.

People say this is too brutal.

you shouldn't be doing it, it's dangerous, blah, blah, blah.

What do you think about that?

I think everybody have to decide that for his own.

And of course it's brutal, it's all that things, you know.

But there are some people,

you know, there are soldiers and there are people who are normal, yes.

And you have to decide for yourself what side you are.

And then some people it grows.

They cannot stop that.

They cannot make in the office.

No.

They make that.

And other people are in the office.

We need both of the people, you know.

but we are from the other side, yes.

You couldn't do that, right?

You couldn't go to normal work.

No, I never had a

real job.

You prefer fighting.

Yes.

If that wasn't clear, Lavi points out something that I think is pretty interesting here.

He acknowledges that brutal normals fighting is, of course, not for everybody.

But he also says the more sedentary office worker 9 to 5 type lifestyle is also not for everybody.

It's not for them, that's for sure.

However, he also says that we need both types of people in this world, unlike most of the people I've spoken to in regards to no rules fight clubs.

I think Lavi is probably onto something, yin and yang, in the most violent way possible.

The event starts today, right?

So there's people coming all over from all over.

What kind of people are coming to fight?

How do you get hold of them?

How do they contact you?

It's the underworld.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's the underworld.

What do you think is going to happen today?

If you're going to be able to do it, I hope so.

I hope so.

It will be massive, yes.

And the most thing, of course, it will be brutal, but I would lie if I would say I hope that something happens really like an accident, you know?

We are happy when the people after can drink a beer and check a cola and are happy, you know, and have maybe an eye like that, okay.

But we also don't want that.

That's why we have to be really careful, because it's a concrete uh ground.

Right, you don't want anyone to like be like damaged for life.

Of course not.

We love the fight.

Yes, it's the fight.

What do you think of like King of the Streets?

You guys cool with them?

Of course.

Of course, they are the fathers of that.

Again, all roads lead to King of the Streets.

To properly understand no rules and need to go to a COTS fight.

It's very, very difficult for reporters though.

The leader is extremely paranoid and does not allow anyone in that's close to the media.

COTS is about as hardcore as it gets in this scene.

In some of their videos, they even brandish firearms, and I don't mean handguns.

I'm talking semi-automatic rifles.

In Europe, that is a big deal.

You don't get hold of such weapons unless you're well connected in the criminal underworld.

Anytime I've reached out to COTS, they don't reply.

I wouldn't reply either.

But where there's a will, there's a way.

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I showed Lavi a load of my previous work and he believed in the ethos of the Away Days project as a whole.

Once that was sorted and a few people vouched for me, it was on.

So here I am on the outskirts of Germany, waiting for the fights to begin.

I noticed notice two of the women fighters getting ready.

One is very short with big fake eyelashes, a leopard print face tattoo and lots of lipstick.

She's dressed in a bright red frontier tracksuit with black leather high heeled boots and she's still very short.

Her vibes are incredible.

She's very nervous so I decided to leave her be and speak to her after the fight.

One of the other fighters is getting her hands wrapped in tape, knuckles bare but hand secured so as to help from breaking.

She's tall, lean and with face, hand and neck tattoos.

She goes by the nickname Agro Terror.

She seems shy but she's happy to talk.

She tells me she works at a bar and says she wants to fight to prove something to herself.

Can she do it?

Is she brave enough?

I ask her what she thinks about doing this in such a male dominated world.

Some men, no doubt in this scene, would say that women should not do no rules.

Without skipping a beat, she simply replies, well those men should shut up.

I laugh, she laughs, I wish her good luck and I let her be as she goes to get prepared for the fight.

Suddenly I see Bash making a beeline for me through the crowd.

He looks distressed.

We're the only Brits here, so maybe there's some solidarity, but in this crowd there's absolutely fuck all I can do if there's trouble.

But Bash explains, basically he's worried about one of the other women who are fighting.

I've not seen her yet, but he's telling me he's offered to give her money.

Why?

Well, it's convoluted and Bash has unfortunately been drinking.

But essentially, what he tells me, at least, is that the opponent picked for Agro-Terra is a Romanian-German single mother down on her luck.

She's apparently only fighting for the money so she can help her kids.

She doesn't train apparently and she has no real experience.

Whereas Agro Terra does MMA.

Bash is visibly upset about this.

I can see why.

It's hardly an even match if this is true.

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If not to be fair, then to be entertaining.

Koch for example usually only has the best of the best at their events.

It's rare to see someone trampled over in a minute.

If what Bash is saying is true though, we could see that happen with the first female no rules here at Frontier.

Something doesn't seem right.

Bash wanders off to speak to his wife, who's flown out with him as usual.

Soon he's got to fight a lad known as Underdog.

This guy has been shadow boxing in a corner with his earphones in the whole time we've been it.

Underdog looks about half Bash's weight, but he's light in his feet and looks pretty able.

With Bash's experience though, he should steam through Underdog easy.

Well, if he can sober up fast.

The last groups of people filter in through the front after being frisked.

At this point when everyone's in, Lavi checks the curtains are drawn and announces that all the doors have now been locked.

We shut in.

No one will be coming in or going out whilst the fights are taking place.

It's kind of ominous, but it also makes sense in regard to security.

There's a ton of criminals in here, including biker gangs, drug dealers, hooligans and street fighters.

Not to mention the illegal underground fighting taking place.

You want as few people messing around outside as possible in case police drive by and check what's going on.

It's packed in here.

The whole crowd is going wild.

People grab hold of the Harris fence in and rattle it non-stop.

It sounds like thunder.

The energy here is a lot different to FPVS.

I think the crowd here is more dangerous than the fighters.

Every creed, colour and orientation of criminal is here.

There are big dogs on big chains, tall men in balaclavas and women with their partners' names tattooed across one side of their forehead.

This is the underworld.

People here have chosen to live outside of society, for better or worse.

The first fighters approach the fenced off area.

two lads in their 20s, lightweight.

The fight is unremarkable honestly.

To well win the windmilling hooks that mostly miss.

It lasts about 2 minutes.

But then, after that fight, comes Bash.

The fence parts.

Labby strides in, Bash follows, underdog follows.

The latter is a local lad and clearly a crowd favourite.

Group of around a dozen young men in tracksuits and bandanas pulled up to their eyes goes crazy for him.

One of them next to me grabs me in excitement and jumps up and down.

They cannot wait.

Underdog looks ready.

Bash is honestly looking a little worse for wear.

The confidence he walked with when I first saw him fight in Hastings is gone.

If anything, he looks a little weary.

He keeps touching his face and saying fucking hell under his breath as he enters the makeshift arena.

For all his faults, I like Bash.

Honestly, I want to see him win.

On the run-up to the fight, he was saying online that he's planning to bite off Underdog's ears.

That energy though seems long gone.

He's holding himself in a way that says he just wants to get this over with.

Underdog, the younger man by at least a decade, is still full of beans, ready to go.

The two fighters meet in the middle.

Bash pushes forward hands down and throws a very badly timed kick.

Underdog catches it with his shin and Bash instantly goes down falling over himself hitting the concrete.

Underdog kicks at him wildly, mostly missing, sometimes kicking Bash's legs as he spins spins around on his back trying to find some kind of way to get up.

Underdog leans over Bash, punches him in the head a few times and then toe punts him straight in the face.

Bash's head snaps back a bit and he's knocked out, kind of.

Labby moves in and ends the fight.

Bash remains unconscious on the floor or something like that.

Honestly, from here it looks to me as if Bash is just pretending to be KO'd.

It's weird.

Labby and a woman with a bandana covering her face drag Bash out by his arms with his head slumped and eyes closed.

Now I don't want to speculate too much but something seems fishy about this.

Okay Bash has taken a ton of losses and no rules but this just felt way too easy.

I'm not convinced he was actually knocked out.

Underdog though is jumping around running to each part of the fence and celebrating as if he just beat Mike Tyson in one round.

It all feels a bit strange to me but either way the crowd is going insane.

Their boy has won in less than a minute against a quote-unquote no rules legend.

I don't know, feels weird.

After a brief interlude the first female fight of the night begins.

Agro Terra steps with the crowd.

She looks nervous but poised.

Her competitor, a woman named Hattie, is also now making her way to the circle.

She's about a foot shorter than Agro Terra.

She's curvy, compact and has her dark hair tied up in a ponytail.

Her hands are partially wrapped with tape and for some reason, so are her feet.

She's wearing no shoes or socks, which is unusual.

Hattie looks completely out of her depth.

I'm unsure if she even fully understands what's about to happen.

She walks by me and stands there looking into the fencing.

She catches my eye for a second and I don't know what to even say.

So I just smile and nod and I say, good luck, you'll be fine.

Idiot.

Hattie steps through the fencing.

She's first inside.

Agro Terra follows shortly after.

Labby talks up the fight.

And it all begins.

Immediately, Agro Terra lands a low kick followed by a swift jab straight into Hattie's jaw.

Her head whips back and she has the look of someone who's never been hit before in her life.

She seems dazed and shocked, but only for a moment.

Quickly, Hattie reaches out and grabs Agro Terra by the scruff of her neck.

After some grappling, the two end up scrabbling on the concrete.

Hattie manages to flip herself over and as Agro Terra locks her arms, she literally lifts her up fully off of the floor.

Turns out Hattie is strong as fuck.

She repositions herself and tries to lock Agro Terra's arm.

Hattie falls back though and in the struggle for dominance she ends up laid out on her front.

Agroterra seizes the opportunity, jumps up and begins punching Hattie in the side of her head from behind.

Blabby quickly runs in and ends it.

Hattie lost but only just.

It was not the bloodbath I thought it might be.

I dare say with some training and experience, Hattie would have plowed through Agro Terra easily.

The two women are relatively unscathed.

They hug each other and both celebrate their achievement.

The first female no rules underground fight.

The crowd loves it.

The second women's fight goes quick.

The short woman with the leopard print face tattoos I spoke about earlier is named Miri.

She fights a woman named Dilek who is much bigger than her.

Miri starts the fight off like a rocket, kicking, punching, grabbing, hair pulling, completely non-stop until Lavi breaks up the fight quickly.

Her competitor had no clue what she was doing.

The frontier fights were pretty energetic and certainly wild in their own way, but I have a feeling some easy opponents were picked out for favoured fighters.

Something just didn't sit right with me the whole way.

Things were off.

When I get back to England, I get a text from Joey.

Remember the up-and-coming Welsh Street Fighter from episode 1.

Joey has news.

He's seemingly ecstatic.

I give him a call and he's bouncing off the walls even more than usual.

All his dreams have come true.

Somehow Joey has been invited to fight on the number one no rules fight club in the world.

The most notorious, the most hardcore, the most exclusive.

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We'll see more of Joey in the next episode.

The final part of No Rules is no rules.

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Reporting, producing, writing, editing, and research by me, Jake Hanrahan.

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Photography by Johnny Pickup and Louis Hollis.

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Drew and Sue in Eminem's Minis.

And baking the surprise birthday cake for Lou.

And Sue forgetting that her oven doesn't really work.

And Drew remembering that they don't have flour.

And Lou getting home early from work, which he never does.

And Drew and Sue using the rest of the tubes of M ⁇ M's minis as party boppers instead.

I think this is one of those moments where people say, it's the thought that counts.

M ⁇ Ms, it's more fun together.

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