June 17, 2025 • 29 mins
After almost two years of working on access and devolving our project on the underground scene of No Rules fighting, an entryway into King of the Streets finally opens up.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
CAUs Media. You're listening to the Away Days podcast on
the ground Outside, reporting from the underbelly with me Jake Hanrahan.
To watch Awaydays documentaries, go to YouTube dot com slash
at Away Days TV. This is Part one, No Rules
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Is No Rules, Episode four. This podcast is a production
of h Leven Studio and Call his Own Media. Since
we first met Joey in episode one when he thought
bash in Hastings, he's been having a bit of a
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hard time getting fights. He tried to sign up to
go at it in just about every fight club or
bernacle event there is, but he's been having no luck.
A decent fighter and completely dedicated to violence and raising
his own profile in the underground. Still though, something wasn't
hitting personally. I think it might be his flamboyant character
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and attitude. As I've mentioned before, Joey is really quite
different from most of the clandestine fighters out there. He's
loud as fuck, he dies his beard, he wears Neon colors,
and lives with his heart on his sleeve at all times.
Joey is about as stoic as a Jerry Springer contestant.
He cannot help but shout loudly about what he thinks
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and who he is. Joey, whether you like him or not,
is a one of one. I think it's great. However,
I'm unsure the scene as a whole is quite ready
for someone like him. Generally, there's a hardcore, tough guy
element to underground fight clubs, as you can obviously imagine
Joey running in with his Neon pink trainers and three
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different haircuts, all bleached ye different ways.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Doesn't quite fit the mold.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The whole point of clandestine fighting, though, is that it's
a counterculture outside of society. Anyone taking part has to
exit from the norm and prepare for a wild West
in every way possible, even if you're just in attendance watching.
There's one King of the Streets video, for example, where
someone in the crowd grabs onto a fighter through a
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corrugated fence, literally trying to limit his movement so his
opponent can get the upper hand. God knows what he
was thinking, but let it be known that no rules
only applies to what's happening inside the fight. Everyone else
better behave. In the video, the mysterious boss Man of
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Cots instantly spots the grabbing and leaps over the fence
like a gazelle. Several other Hype crew members follow him
and a fight breaks out in the crowd. The edit
then cuts to a be right back technical difficulties had
for a second before the fight is back on. I
have it on good authority from someone who was there
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that day that the lad who grabbed the fire to
got beaten up, knocked out, and dragged out of the venue.
I was told he's banned for life from all COTS events.
There's even a rumor he was kicked out of the
hooligan firm he was a part of for embarrassing everybody
involved with his antics. No rules is not a game,
it's not a sport. That's just one specific example that
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was caught on video. There were many more that are
yet to be seen, like when the police raided a
COTS fight and hundreds of people inside had to escape
and attempted to run away before the cops arrested them,
or when fights broke out between rival hooligan firms close
to the event. So Joey spent months trying to fight
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people on the concrete. Every so often he'd have an
opponent ready, only for them to drop out at the
last minute. If it wasn't that it was peral health
issues of his own. I won't go into too much
detail other than what Joey has already said publicly, but
basically he has a fairly serious heart condition that flared
up recently, putting a pause on his training on fighting, down,
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out and unwell. I could since Joey was becoming depressed.
He called me up for no real reason, talking about
how his fights had fallen apart, how he needs to
get operated on, how he's basically sick of sitting around.
He'd be sat at home in Wales with his mind
ticking over double time. Fighting men are not attuned to
bed rest. It's not in their DNA, it's not in
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their makeup. They feel lethargic, puffy and even out of control.
The discipline of the gym, the ring and the concrete
is where they most feel relaxed. One time I saw
on Joey's Instagram stories that he was taking a rest
from training for a bit due to injury, but within
hours he posted the story of him jogging topless in
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the moors whilst eating a full red onion raw like
an apple. Why I don't know, but that's what he
was up to. That's the kind of person he is.
Trying to get Joey to rest for anything is obviously
going to be very difficult, as you can imagine. When
Joey got the confirmation he'd be fighting on King of
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the Streets, he was over the moon. He went instantly
from the sofa to the tarmac, hitting weights, hitting the bags,
and consuming as many steroids as possible. After a few weeks,
Joey is ready. He's even asked to Cott's bosses if
I'd be allowed to come and film his fight, but
they said no security issues.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Instead, I'm headed out to Spain to meet Joey a
few days before the fight. I won't get to see it,
but i'll see him before and after I land in Spain.
We'll keep the city undisclosed, but it's busy, it's hot,
and the traffic is bonkers.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yesterday he was.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Flown out by Hype crew, all expenses paid, and he's
currently held up in a hotel on the outskirts of
the city. The fight is in twenty four hours. There's
a rumor going around that the location for this event
will be the most extravagant in the history of cots.
Generally the fights are held in warehouses or empty multi
story car parks, but now and then a wildcard location
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is used for the fights. One time they held an
event in an ice rink with the floor covered. Another
on top of a roof of a very high building.
It's like Tekan. The one that's planned for Spain is
apparently unlike anything else. A cool Joey. He's full of
energy as usual. He tells me to come through. So
we're hopping a taxi and head out to meet him
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and his mate there with his top off mate fucking
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size on it. Man, Are you feeling top Yeah, you're
looking happy you made it.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Joey is easily half a stone heavier than when i'd
last seen him. He's put on a ton of muscle.
He's got his shirt off and his hair slipped back,
and he's practically vibrating on the spot. He's just throwing
out sentences without me even asking anything. In the midst
of this madness, he starts to explain how he finally
got onto cops.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Let's fight.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
So I just thought, yeah, spoke to some boy.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It's a polished boy who fought with them sucking the
month ago.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And then yeah, he was speaking to.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Me, so I just fucking yeah, he said, I was
trying to do this, and then he give.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Me the contact.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And after all Joey's efforts to get the tension of
Hype Crew and King of the Streets, all it took
in the end was messaging a previous fighter who was friendly,
As Joey said, some Polish lad had fought on Cots before,
gave him the contact for the right people. He sent
them footage of his previous fights and they said, yep, okay,
you can fight at Cotts. Joey will be fighting Alex,
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a man we spoke about briefly.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
In episode one. He's the guy who got half.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
His ear bitten off by Bash and continued to fight
an even win by a brutal double eye gouch. Alex
is a serious fighter with a lot more experience than Joey. Joey,
though genuinely does not seem anything but excited. No nerves,
just excitement. We walked through a feel of Dusty baron
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Land as he sporadically jumps about whooping and shadow boxing.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He's like a kid in a sweet shop. Visualized in
The Winner, He's.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Like God looking down at me telling me you're this
is like, this is like a big thinking. This is
what you've been aiming for thoughn't it? What is it
about the king King of the streets?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Like? Mate, you want to be honest.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
The scenery and now I think, but the scenery and
all that fucking it's like a movie and every clip
they have on YouTube, but it's like a fucking this
is like a film for hour long, like fifty minutes long,
and I just will fuck out And he looks nastiest
factor on him. What's the worst thing that can happen?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Obviously, yes, a lot of things, but you know.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Certain men don't think like you don't think that. Whilst Joey,
as you can hear, is a bit of a madman
in person, there's something almost endearing about him. He's a
young man from South Wales where there is honestly not
much opportunity. The idea that he'll soon be taking part
in the world's most serious underground fight club is exhilarating
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for him. I hate it all love it. This is
the biggest prospect of Joey's life so far. It means
a lot to him.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I'm waiting for any did I have, but you know,
you've got to push yourself. I can't keep running around
thinking I can do anything.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I gotta take take it to day.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I'm just waiting for that like and I'm going on
to this Pimuni thesty practice.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Nothing more harder or better, is it?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You're not feel any nerves, that's all. No, I don't
like that's what I want to take.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I don't see I'm not a bad person, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
What I mean. I'm doing this out of what I
want to do.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I'm practicing. I'm fucking getting more Bayler and I just
want to swell. I obviously want to smack some on
them too, but you know that's their fault anyways.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
They want to do it as well.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
So if you you know, you both want to be
met and let's go for it.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But no, I don't get wordied or shadow new this
WHAT'SU all?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Something that often comes up when I tell people I've
been filming underground no rules fight clubs like the one
Joey's about to take part in, is the idea that
everyone involved must be some kind of lunatic. Their lives
must have been hard, they're probably nasty pieces of work.
Blah blah blah. That's definitely true for some fighters. But
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most of the people I've met in the two years
i've been working on my no Rules projects are totally normal.
Other than the fighting, most of them are really nice.
Even Joey, for example, is a family man who's very
close with his mom and dad. Still it's something he
talks about often.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I haven't been through nothing to fucking get myself that way.
I'm just happy.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And that's the thing. A lot of people are like.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Oh, you must have something wrong with you, there must
be something in your childhood.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
What is it? Yeah? Fuck o?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
But I got raised fucking perfect on my parents, like
literally either the best ever ever. I had everything I
ever wanted, Catholic primary school, Catholic fucking com school. You know,
I weren't allowed without late at night, I went fucking
and I never got into no.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Trouble and that. So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Maybe un less it's because I'm at this age so
I can of my parents can't tell me.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I think, yeah, you just like fighting. Yeah, it's just like, yeah,
what have you what your mom and dad said about it?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Did I know?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
My mom doesn't know about it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
You don't know about.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
This again, Like, but my dad's like I told him,
he goes fucking hell, Joe because not much I can
say about it anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You know you wanted to do it, I.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Can't tell you anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
So yeah, it's fubby. It's why I'm doing it as well,
because if I'm able to do stuff that without.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
The thing with cots is it's more than just the fighting.
The whole thing is an experience, a counterculture, a door
into a different world that is closed for ninety nine
percent of the population anywhere. For Joey, he's not only
fighting on a massive platform. He's been flown out to
somewhere new, He gets paid to fight, and he gets
treated differently to what he would back home. I think
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this is a big appeal for many fighters involved in
the counterculture of no rules clandestine fighting.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
I always always wanted to get flew out to a
different country.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Not obvious the UK and fucking another fight teram and
that does a manner if it was free, or if
it was fucking tank brand or fucking million pons Like, no,
it doesn't make a difference doing it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
You know you have money back to spend this gone
doing it something you have the memory of it all?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
So many is and match, I guess there's a free
night out with a missus and the fucking yeah. Well
ever else, like do.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You remember like do you remember like your first fight
street fight?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, my first.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Street fight though, so you must have been when I
was younger, and that's when obviously just sticking up for
my brother because people used to you know, used to
get a little bit of a little idiot and that
he was a little bit you know, he's getting trouble, Like,
so I's brother's I stick up for him and yeah,
yeah remember that. It was kind of always just one
massive bang and they'd down out.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Wow, this is mad.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
So, I mean I never thought anything from it. I
always thought I was tough until I've done my first
ever fight boxing face, and then I was at all.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I leave Joey to shadow box in the dust and concrete,
preparing for his fight tomorrow. Now I'm not allowed to
see the fight in person, but I can watch it
in real time. Cotts has a live pay per view
link on their website. So I sit back, keep my
Airbnb and get ready to see if Joey has what
it takes to be part of King of the Street's history.
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I stay glued to my laptop for the countdown the
pay per view starts. The rumors are true. This is
by far the most extravagant Cott's location to date. They're
fighting in a bull ring. They've even got someone dressed
up as a matador to lead the event. It's incredible.
The fighters are preparing in the paddocks where the bull
would go. Old broken wooden gates separate the fighters from
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the hard, dusty floor of the bull ring. A chain
is unlatched on the paddock gate each end, and two
fighters emerge. Joey and Alex are up. Joey raises his
hand to the sky and Alex moves forward confidently. His
long hair is tied in a bun. He's covered in tattoos, bearded, tall,
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and stocky. He looks ready but relaxed. Joey is fully
dialed in. You can tell he's rare in to go.
The two fighters meet in the middle and of the
last few steps, Joey randomly breaks out into a short
sprint towards Alex before leap into the air and throwing
a short fly kick. Alex shifts out the way, but
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it catches him in the hip. Looks painful. Joey lunges
for him and throws two badly timed haymakers. They miss
thrown into mid air. The third he throws connects with
the side of Alex's head. He looks a bit flustered,
but he's fine. Alex grapples with Joey. Joey shifts his weight,
throws ahead, but pulls Alex downward, throws a knee into
his face. Alex looks dazed. Joey goes from again, with
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no guard whatsoever. He's like a wild animal. Alex straightens
up and throws a perfectly timed left hook into Joey's jaw.
Joey goes down heavy. He hits the dirt, all eighty
one kilos of him. The dust rises. I wonder is
he done for.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Within less than a second, Joey leaps back up onto
his feet. Alex tries to boot him but misses. The
two circle each other for a second. Alex drops another
stiff left hook into Joey's chin. This time, Joey just grins,
flashing the white of his gum shield. Joey jabs Alex
in the face and the two grapple. Alex tries to
lift Joey up but fails. The two are locked together,
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now on the floor in the dirt. Joey is choking
Alex out. The two scuffle for a while on their
knees till Alex lifts Joey, throws.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Him over and lands on top of him.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I can't see how Joey can get out of this one,
but he manages to hold on headlocking Alex by the neck.
The two are a tangle of bloody limbs and sweat.
Dirt sticks to them as they do battle on the ground,
face pushed against face, Both are in a perfect position
to bite the other, but they don't. There's some unspoken
understanding in this fight, as that are with many a
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COT's just because you can do whatever you want in
no rules.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Doesn't mean you have to.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Alex frees himself from Joey's grip and is now kneeled
over him. He starts punching Joey in the face, but
somehow Joey manages to spin.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Around and stand up.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
The two men part for a few seconds. Both are
visibly exhausted. They pant hard and take a few steps
trying to catch their breath. The pair step forward, both
throwing a white cross at the same time. Both fighters
land the punch into each other's head. The next snap
back for a second and blood is visible on both.
They then swing wild at each other until Alex drops
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to the ground from pure exhaustion. Joey jumps on top
of him and grabs his hair, pounding his fists into
Alex's face and head. Alex covers up and lets out
a growl as Joey continues to rain down fists. Wow,
Alex is no longer fighting back. The boss man at
Cots moves in and pulls Joey off of him. I
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can't believe it. Joey has won the fight. His hand
is held up in the air and all the other
fighters cheer him on from the stands of the Matador Stadium.
It's just what Joey wanted.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Alex is back up on his feet, beaten, blooded but
generally okay, so clapping. The two men embrace in a
show of good sportsmanship, and that led back to the
Padducks to be seen to by a makeshift medical team.
It was a brawl, very scrappy, but honestly, what an
entertaining fight That was to watch. Later that day, I
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meet Joey in another dusty field nearby. You do manuck,
congrats man amazing?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Right, all right, you look all right, broke the nose.
Look what did you call your parents?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Joy?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Only we need to ring the most season?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
My parents and brother what they say?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, they were loving it, having a drink at the moment,
and then I wrung and he's like, yeah, well done,
you know, he fucking yeah, we just have this family
thing going on in it, like, you know, because my
grandpa alviously passed away when I was younger, and I
was my dad's dad, and I was the last fucking
feeling he had, and there because everything they've done for
me and bloody, but I just fucking makes such a
feeling for me, and yeah, that's all I need. You know,
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some people, obviously, like you say, some fighters are fucking
nats in and out of jail, fucking bad people.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
But then you know, some just do it for the
fucking all hard and spills.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It's proud, you know, he is, Like he said it
fucking two years ago.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
He always said, you'll never be as mad as me.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Joe I was fucking mad he was.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
But yeah, two years since now and then he said, right, yeah,
I'm just letting you know, joe you can calm down.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I was like, Dad, that's the best man alive. Never
have it, Like, yeah, I'm over the moon.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Like to be honest, I can. I can see it
looks so happy. So Joey won and he will go
on to fight more in the underground scene, he's happy.
I'm not happy though, not with Joey, but with access.
I was so close to King of the Streets, yet
so far I felt as if I'd failed. Rarely have
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I tried to get access to a story and not
managed it. But as I said earlier in the series,
where there's a will, there is a way. What I
haven't mentioned so far in the Away Days podcast because
it will be covered thoroughly in the novels documentary I'm
making is my work filming with a highly respected cotsfighter
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that you'll see in the film when it's released. He'll
be a main feature of the documentary, which will eventually
be published at YouTube dot com slash at Away Days TV.
Be sure to subscribe. If you can't find it that way,
just search Await Days Jake Hanrahan in YouTube. Now this
cotsfighter was wary of me for a while because I'm
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a journalist, but eventually he began to understand the scope
of my film and he started to help me with access,
introducing me to the right people. To cut a long
story short, I got a call a few weeks after
I'd returned from Spain. Turns out, after two years traveling
back and forth to various no rules fight clubs across Europe,
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I'd finally been granted permission to come and film at
King of the Streets, the place that started it all.
They trusted that my intentions were good and that I
was not fucking around or trying to do some kind
of expose on them. People have tried in the past
to do that, mostly due to the KOTS a political rule.
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Basically anyone from any political background can fight at King
of the Streets. Due to this, they have been surprised
neo Nazi fighters brawling at KOTS. A few disingenuous mainstream
reporters decided to single that out and act as if
KOTS is some kind of far right training ground That
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is simply not true. COTS has fighters from all different backgrounds,
including several anti fascist hooligans, some of which have literally
screamed anti far at the top of their lungs after winning.
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There are dozens of fighters from all different racial and
religious backgrounds. Some of the main heads in Hype Crew
even are black and Arab. So for Cots to be
a white supremacist breeding ground, they're after a bad start. Now,
sure would the environment of Cots scare away your average
liberal or conservative mainstream reporter and make them very upset
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due to what they're seeing? Yes, but what wouldn't These days?
Basically everyone from far left to far right and back
again confers, I I at Coots if they've got the
metal to do so. Politics at the fight club is
simply irrelevant. Now. You might not like that, but I
dare say the people at the fight clubs don't care.
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So King of the Streets, I jumped on a plane
and headed out to an undisclosed country in Europe. Been
trying to get access to Kotts for a very long time,
but I didn't even know if I'd be allowed in
till the very second I was through the door. Even then,
it was just to meet the boss man and hear
what he had to say. If he didn't like what
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I had to say, he would have kicked me out
there and then at the location, a warehouse, I was
thoroughly searched and briefly interrogated. Once the bossman had decided
I am who I said I am, and I'm trying
to film a genuine documentary about this wild and counter
culture had created, he decided I was okay.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Then that was it. Off we went.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
We were free to film whatever we wanted as the
fights took place. Now, due to the nature of the
agreements we have for the access, I'm not going to
go into detail here about the event. You will see
it all though, when a documentary is released. What I
can say though, is that the atmosphere at Coutts was
unlike anything I've experienced in my ten plus years as
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a journalist. They are the most notorious fight club for
a reason. So this first part of the Away Days podcast,
there's been a journey through recreational ultra violence on which
an entire counterculture is growing rapidly. I've tried to be
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as frank and as open as possible. Await Days is
not for the faint of heart. I want to make
journalism that has none of the edges rounded smooth. After
all of this, you might think that no rules under
ground fighting is horrible, brutal or barbaric. Even most people do,
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but that's almost the point of it. It is not
for everyone. It's actually barely for anyone at all. Even
most professional fighters.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Wouldn't get involved.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
That's completely understandable. Most people don't want to risk having
their heads smashed off of a concrete floor, or their
eye gouged out, or their skin bitting off. I certainly
would not. That is totally normal. One thing, though, that
I often see brought up in regards to no rules
fighting is the morality of it. This, I think is
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one of the most interesting elements of the scene. People
who are outraged by it can simply look away, but
they won't. Two people fighting in private, hidden from the
rest of the world is no one's business but their own.
And yet still the biggest detractors of no rules want
to act as.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
If they are above the violence. They're not. No one is.
Violence is part of our DNA.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
It is all around us, but it's been sanitized and
repackaged to seem acceptable. If the quote unquote correct people
are doing it now. I don't want to come across
as some boring political philosopher, But I do think there's
a point to be made.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Put it this way, if.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
You have ever cheered on a politician, you have almost
definitely promoted, whether you liked it or not, extreme violence
from left to right. Politicians are involved in dropping bombs
on the heads of people all across the world. This
is not a part is an issue. I've seen it
firsthand myself and my many reporting trips to various front
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lines across the world. Heads get blown open, brains poured
onto pavements, Limbs are torn from bodies, skin burns off
of the bones of innocent people. War is far more
violent than anything you will ever see in a no
rules fight. And you can cool clandestine fighters, thugs and
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criminals if you want, but they've never since seventeen billion
dollars worth of military aid to a country in the
throes of a televised genocide. It might think this is
a straw man argument, and that's fine. Maybe it is,
but consider this. The people who dictate what level of
the qorum is and isn't allowed in our society are
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the very same people who facilitate some of the most
deadly violence in history. My final point is to say
that many people are obsessed with violence or will simply
excuse it. They just don't realize it. At least with
no rules fighting, everyone there knows who they are. So
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that was part one of the Away Days podcast. No
Rules is No Rules. Next week will be starting part
two of the podcast, where we'll take you on a
journey through a deadly pavela in Brazil to see what
life is like when a gang takes on the role
of a government. Remember if you want to watch our
Away Days documentaries, go to YouTube dot com slash at
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To watch Awaydays documentaries, go to YouTube dot com slash
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Is No Rules, Episode four. This podcast is a production
of h Leven Studio and Call his Own Media. Since
we first met Joey in episode one when he thought
bash in Hastings, he's been having a bit of a
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hard time getting fights. He tried to sign up to
go at it in just about every fight club or
bernacle event there is, but he's been having no luck.
A decent fighter and completely dedicated to violence and raising
his own profile in the underground. Still though, something wasn't
hitting personally. I think it might be his flamboyant character
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and attitude. As I've mentioned before, Joey is really quite
different from most of the clandestine fighters out there. He's
loud as fuck, he dies his beard, he wears Neon colors,
and lives with his heart on his sleeve at all times.
Joey is about as stoic as a Jerry Springer contestant.
He cannot help but shout loudly about what he thinks
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and who he is. Joey, whether you like him or not,
is a one of one. I think it's great. However,
I'm unsure the scene as a whole is quite ready
for someone like him. Generally, there's a hardcore, tough guy
element to underground fight clubs, as you can obviously imagine
Joey running in with his Neon pink trainers and three
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different haircuts, all bleached ye different ways.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Doesn't quite fit the mold.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The whole point of clandestine fighting, though, is that it's
a counterculture outside of society. Anyone taking part has to
exit from the norm and prepare for a wild West
in every way possible, even if you're just in attendance watching.
There's one King of the Streets video, for example, where
someone in the crowd grabs onto a fighter through a
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corrugated fence, literally trying to limit his movement so his
opponent can get the upper hand. God knows what he
was thinking, but let it be known that no rules
only applies to what's happening inside the fight. Everyone else
better behave. In the video, the mysterious boss Man of
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Cots instantly spots the grabbing and leaps over the fence
like a gazelle. Several other Hype crew members follow him
and a fight breaks out in the crowd. The edit
then cuts to a be right back technical difficulties had
for a second before the fight is back on. I
have it on good authority from someone who was there
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that day that the lad who grabbed the fire to
got beaten up, knocked out, and dragged out of the venue.
I was told he's banned for life from all COTS events.
There's even a rumor he was kicked out of the
hooligan firm he was a part of for embarrassing everybody
involved with his antics. No rules is not a game,
it's not a sport. That's just one specific example that
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was caught on video. There were many more that are
yet to be seen, like when the police raided a
COTS fight and hundreds of people inside had to escape
and attempted to run away before the cops arrested them,
or when fights broke out between rival hooligan firms close
to the event. So Joey spent months trying to fight
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people on the concrete. Every so often he'd have an
opponent ready, only for them to drop out at the
last minute. If it wasn't that it was peral health
issues of his own. I won't go into too much
detail other than what Joey has already said publicly, but
basically he has a fairly serious heart condition that flared
up recently, putting a pause on his training on fighting, down,
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out and unwell. I could since Joey was becoming depressed.
He called me up for no real reason, talking about
how his fights had fallen apart, how he needs to
get operated on, how he's basically sick of sitting around.
He'd be sat at home in Wales with his mind
ticking over double time. Fighting men are not attuned to
bed rest. It's not in their DNA, it's not in
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their makeup. They feel lethargic, puffy and even out of control.
The discipline of the gym, the ring and the concrete
is where they most feel relaxed. One time I saw
on Joey's Instagram stories that he was taking a rest
from training for a bit due to injury, but within
hours he posted the story of him jogging topless in
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the moors whilst eating a full red onion raw like
an apple. Why I don't know, but that's what he
was up to. That's the kind of person he is.
Trying to get Joey to rest for anything is obviously
going to be very difficult, as you can imagine. When
Joey got the confirmation he'd be fighting on King of
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the Streets, he was over the moon. He went instantly
from the sofa to the tarmac, hitting weights, hitting the bags,
and consuming as many steroids as possible. After a few weeks,
Joey is ready. He's even asked to Cott's bosses if
I'd be allowed to come and film his fight, but
they said no security issues.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Instead, I'm headed out to Spain to meet Joey a
few days before the fight. I won't get to see it,
but i'll see him before and after I land in Spain.
We'll keep the city undisclosed, but it's busy, it's hot,
and the traffic is bonkers.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yesterday he was.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Flown out by Hype crew, all expenses paid, and he's
currently held up in a hotel on the outskirts of
the city. The fight is in twenty four hours. There's
a rumor going around that the location for this event
will be the most extravagant in the history of cots.
Generally the fights are held in warehouses or empty multi
story car parks, but now and then a wildcard location
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is used for the fights. One time they held an
event in an ice rink with the floor covered. Another
on top of a roof of a very high building.
It's like Tekan. The one that's planned for Spain is
apparently unlike anything else. A cool Joey. He's full of
energy as usual. He tells me to come through. So
we're hopping a taxi and head out to meet him
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and his mate there with his top off mate fucking
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size on it. Man, Are you feeling top Yeah, you're
looking happy you made it.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Joey is easily half a stone heavier than when i'd
last seen him. He's put on a ton of muscle.
He's got his shirt off and his hair slipped back,
and he's practically vibrating on the spot. He's just throwing
out sentences without me even asking anything. In the midst
of this madness, he starts to explain how he finally
got onto cops.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Let's fight.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
So I just thought, yeah, spoke to some boy.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It's a polished boy who fought with them sucking the
month ago.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And then yeah, he was speaking to.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Me, so I just fucking yeah, he said, I was
trying to do this, and then he give.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Me the contact.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And after all Joey's efforts to get the tension of
Hype Crew and King of the Streets, all it took
in the end was messaging a previous fighter who was friendly,
As Joey said, some Polish lad had fought on Cots before,
gave him the contact for the right people. He sent
them footage of his previous fights and they said, yep, okay,
you can fight at Cotts. Joey will be fighting Alex,
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a man we spoke about briefly.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
In episode one. He's the guy who got half.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
His ear bitten off by Bash and continued to fight
an even win by a brutal double eye gouch. Alex
is a serious fighter with a lot more experience than Joey. Joey,
though genuinely does not seem anything but excited. No nerves,
just excitement. We walked through a feel of Dusty baron
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Land as he sporadically jumps about whooping and shadow boxing.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He's like a kid in a sweet shop. Visualized in
The Winner, He's.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Like God looking down at me telling me you're this
is like, this is like a big thinking. This is
what you've been aiming for thoughn't it? What is it
about the king King of the streets?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Like? Mate, you want to be honest.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
The scenery and now I think, but the scenery and
all that fucking it's like a movie and every clip
they have on YouTube, but it's like a fucking this
is like a film for hour long, like fifty minutes long,
and I just will fuck out And he looks nastiest
factor on him. What's the worst thing that can happen?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Obviously, yes, a lot of things, but you know.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Certain men don't think like you don't think that. Whilst Joey,
as you can hear, is a bit of a madman
in person, there's something almost endearing about him. He's a
young man from South Wales where there is honestly not
much opportunity. The idea that he'll soon be taking part
in the world's most serious underground fight club is exhilarating
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for him. I hate it all love it. This is
the biggest prospect of Joey's life so far. It means
a lot to him.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I'm waiting for any did I have, but you know,
you've got to push yourself. I can't keep running around
thinking I can do anything.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I gotta take take it to day.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I'm just waiting for that like and I'm going on
to this Pimuni thesty practice.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Nothing more harder or better, is it?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You're not feel any nerves, that's all. No, I don't
like that's what I want to take.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I don't see I'm not a bad person, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
What I mean. I'm doing this out of what I
want to do.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I'm practicing. I'm fucking getting more Bayler and I just
want to swell. I obviously want to smack some on
them too, but you know that's their fault anyways.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
They want to do it as well.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
So if you you know, you both want to be
met and let's go for it.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But no, I don't get wordied or shadow new this
WHAT'SU all?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Something that often comes up when I tell people I've
been filming underground no rules fight clubs like the one
Joey's about to take part in, is the idea that
everyone involved must be some kind of lunatic. Their lives
must have been hard, they're probably nasty pieces of work.
Blah blah blah. That's definitely true for some fighters. But
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most of the people I've met in the two years
i've been working on my no Rules projects are totally normal.
Other than the fighting, most of them are really nice.
Even Joey, for example, is a family man who's very
close with his mom and dad. Still it's something he
talks about often.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I haven't been through nothing to fucking get myself that way.
I'm just happy.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And that's the thing. A lot of people are like.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Oh, you must have something wrong with you, there must
be something in your childhood.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
What is it? Yeah? Fuck o?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
But I got raised fucking perfect on my parents, like
literally either the best ever ever. I had everything I
ever wanted, Catholic primary school, Catholic fucking com school. You know,
I weren't allowed without late at night, I went fucking
and I never got into no.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Trouble and that. So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Maybe un less it's because I'm at this age so
I can of my parents can't tell me.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I think, yeah, you just like fighting. Yeah, it's just like, yeah,
what have you what your mom and dad said about it?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Did I know?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
My mom doesn't know about it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
You don't know about.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
This again, Like, but my dad's like I told him,
he goes fucking hell, Joe because not much I can
say about it anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You know you wanted to do it, I.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Can't tell you anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
So yeah, it's fubby. It's why I'm doing it as well,
because if I'm able to do stuff that without.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
The thing with cots is it's more than just the fighting.
The whole thing is an experience, a counterculture, a door
into a different world that is closed for ninety nine
percent of the population anywhere. For Joey, he's not only
fighting on a massive platform. He's been flown out to
somewhere new, He gets paid to fight, and he gets
treated differently to what he would back home. I think
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this is a big appeal for many fighters involved in
the counterculture of no rules clandestine fighting.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
I always always wanted to get flew out to a
different country.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Not obvious the UK and fucking another fight teram and
that does a manner if it was free, or if
it was fucking tank brand or fucking million pons Like, no,
it doesn't make a difference doing it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
You know you have money back to spend this gone
doing it something you have the memory of it all?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
So many is and match, I guess there's a free
night out with a missus and the fucking yeah. Well
ever else, like do.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You remember like do you remember like your first fight
street fight?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, my first.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Street fight though, so you must have been when I
was younger, and that's when obviously just sticking up for
my brother because people used to you know, used to
get a little bit of a little idiot and that
he was a little bit you know, he's getting trouble, Like,
so I's brother's I stick up for him and yeah,
yeah remember that. It was kind of always just one
massive bang and they'd down out.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Wow, this is mad.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
So, I mean I never thought anything from it. I
always thought I was tough until I've done my first
ever fight boxing face, and then I was at all.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I leave Joey to shadow box in the dust and concrete,
preparing for his fight tomorrow. Now I'm not allowed to
see the fight in person, but I can watch it
in real time. Cotts has a live pay per view
link on their website. So I sit back, keep my
Airbnb and get ready to see if Joey has what
it takes to be part of King of the Street's history.
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I stay glued to my laptop for the countdown the
pay per view starts. The rumors are true. This is
by far the most extravagant Cott's location to date. They're
fighting in a bull ring. They've even got someone dressed
up as a matador to lead the event. It's incredible.
The fighters are preparing in the paddocks where the bull
would go. Old broken wooden gates separate the fighters from
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the hard, dusty floor of the bull ring. A chain
is unlatched on the paddock gate each end, and two
fighters emerge. Joey and Alex are up. Joey raises his
hand to the sky and Alex moves forward confidently. His
long hair is tied in a bun. He's covered in tattoos, bearded, tall,
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and stocky. He looks ready but relaxed. Joey is fully
dialed in. You can tell he's rare in to go.
The two fighters meet in the middle and of the
last few steps, Joey randomly breaks out into a short
sprint towards Alex before leap into the air and throwing
a short fly kick. Alex shifts out the way, but
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it catches him in the hip. Looks painful. Joey lunges
for him and throws two badly timed haymakers. They miss
thrown into mid air. The third he throws connects with
the side of Alex's head. He looks a bit flustered,
but he's fine. Alex grapples with Joey. Joey shifts his weight,
throws ahead, but pulls Alex downward, throws a knee into
his face. Alex looks dazed. Joey goes from again, with
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no guard whatsoever. He's like a wild animal. Alex straightens
up and throws a perfectly timed left hook into Joey's jaw.
Joey goes down heavy. He hits the dirt, all eighty
one kilos of him. The dust rises. I wonder is
he done for.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Within less than a second, Joey leaps back up onto
his feet. Alex tries to boot him but misses. The
two circle each other for a second. Alex drops another
stiff left hook into Joey's chin. This time, Joey just grins,
flashing the white of his gum shield. Joey jabs Alex
in the face and the two grapple. Alex tries to
lift Joey up but fails. The two are locked together,
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now on the floor in the dirt. Joey is choking
Alex out. The two scuffle for a while on their
knees till Alex lifts Joey, throws.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Him over and lands on top of him.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I can't see how Joey can get out of this one,
but he manages to hold on headlocking Alex by the neck.
The two are a tangle of bloody limbs and sweat.
Dirt sticks to them as they do battle on the ground,
face pushed against face, Both are in a perfect position
to bite the other, but they don't. There's some unspoken
understanding in this fight, as that are with many a
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COT's just because you can do whatever you want in
no rules.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Doesn't mean you have to.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Alex frees himself from Joey's grip and is now kneeled
over him. He starts punching Joey in the face, but
somehow Joey manages to spin.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Around and stand up.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
The two men part for a few seconds. Both are
visibly exhausted. They pant hard and take a few steps
trying to catch their breath. The pair step forward, both
throwing a white cross at the same time. Both fighters
land the punch into each other's head. The next snap
back for a second and blood is visible on both.
They then swing wild at each other until Alex drops
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to the ground from pure exhaustion. Joey jumps on top
of him and grabs his hair, pounding his fists into
Alex's face and head. Alex covers up and lets out
a growl as Joey continues to rain down fists. Wow,
Alex is no longer fighting back. The boss man at
Cots moves in and pulls Joey off of him. I
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can't believe it. Joey has won the fight. His hand
is held up in the air and all the other
fighters cheer him on from the stands of the Matador Stadium.
It's just what Joey wanted.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Alex is back up on his feet, beaten, blooded but
generally okay, so clapping. The two men embrace in a
show of good sportsmanship, and that led back to the
Padducks to be seen to by a makeshift medical team.
It was a brawl, very scrappy, but honestly, what an
entertaining fight That was to watch. Later that day, I
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meet Joey in another dusty field nearby. You do manuck,
congrats man amazing?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Right, all right, you look all right, broke the nose.
Look what did you call your parents?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Joy?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Only we need to ring the most season?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
My parents and brother what they say?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, they were loving it, having a drink at the moment,
and then I wrung and he's like, yeah, well done,
you know, he fucking yeah, we just have this family
thing going on in it, like, you know, because my
grandpa alviously passed away when I was younger, and I
was my dad's dad, and I was the last fucking
feeling he had, and there because everything they've done for
me and bloody, but I just fucking makes such a
feeling for me, and yeah, that's all I need. You know,
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some people, obviously, like you say, some fighters are fucking
nats in and out of jail, fucking bad people.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
But then you know, some just do it for the
fucking all hard and spills.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It's proud, you know, he is, Like he said it
fucking two years ago.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
He always said, you'll never be as mad as me.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Joe I was fucking mad he was.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
But yeah, two years since now and then he said, right, yeah,
I'm just letting you know, joe you can calm down.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I was like, Dad, that's the best man alive. Never
have it, Like, yeah, I'm over the moon.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Like to be honest, I can. I can see it
looks so happy. So Joey won and he will go
on to fight more in the underground scene, he's happy.
I'm not happy though, not with Joey, but with access.
I was so close to King of the Streets, yet
so far I felt as if I'd failed. Rarely have
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I tried to get access to a story and not
managed it. But as I said earlier in the series,
where there's a will, there is a way. What I
haven't mentioned so far in the Away Days podcast because
it will be covered thoroughly in the novels documentary I'm
making is my work filming with a highly respected cotsfighter
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that you'll see in the film when it's released. He'll
be a main feature of the documentary, which will eventually
be published at YouTube dot com slash at Away Days TV.
Be sure to subscribe. If you can't find it that way,
just search Await Days Jake Hanrahan in YouTube. Now this
cotsfighter was wary of me for a while because I'm
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a journalist, but eventually he began to understand the scope
of my film and he started to help me with access,
introducing me to the right people. To cut a long
story short, I got a call a few weeks after
I'd returned from Spain. Turns out, after two years traveling
back and forth to various no rules fight clubs across Europe,
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I'd finally been granted permission to come and film at
King of the Streets, the place that started it all.
They trusted that my intentions were good and that I
was not fucking around or trying to do some kind
of expose on them. People have tried in the past
to do that, mostly due to the KOTS a political rule.
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Basically anyone from any political background can fight at King
of the Streets. Due to this, they have been surprised
neo Nazi fighters brawling at KOTS. A few disingenuous mainstream
reporters decided to single that out and act as if
KOTS is some kind of far right training ground That
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is simply not true. COTS has fighters from all different backgrounds,
including several anti fascist hooligans, some of which have literally
screamed anti far at the top of their lungs after winning.
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There are dozens of fighters from all different racial and
religious backgrounds. Some of the main heads in Hype Crew
even are black and Arab. So for Cots to be
a white supremacist breeding ground, they're after a bad start. Now,
sure would the environment of Cots scare away your average
liberal or conservative mainstream reporter and make them very upset
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due to what they're seeing? Yes, but what wouldn't These days?
Basically everyone from far left to far right and back
again confers, I I at Coots if they've got the
metal to do so. Politics at the fight club is
simply irrelevant. Now. You might not like that, but I
dare say the people at the fight clubs don't care.
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So King of the Streets, I jumped on a plane
and headed out to an undisclosed country in Europe. Been
trying to get access to Kotts for a very long time,
but I didn't even know if I'd be allowed in
till the very second I was through the door. Even then,
it was just to meet the boss man and hear
what he had to say. If he didn't like what
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I had to say, he would have kicked me out
there and then at the location, a warehouse, I was
thoroughly searched and briefly interrogated. Once the bossman had decided
I am who I said I am, and I'm trying
to film a genuine documentary about this wild and counter
culture had created, he decided I was okay.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Then that was it. Off we went.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
We were free to film whatever we wanted as the
fights took place. Now, due to the nature of the
agreements we have for the access, I'm not going to
go into detail here about the event. You will see
it all though, when a documentary is released. What I
can say though, is that the atmosphere at Coutts was
unlike anything I've experienced in my ten plus years as
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a journalist. They are the most notorious fight club for
a reason. So this first part of the Away Days podcast,
there's been a journey through recreational ultra violence on which
an entire counterculture is growing rapidly. I've tried to be
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as frank and as open as possible. Await Days is
not for the faint of heart. I want to make
journalism that has none of the edges rounded smooth. After
all of this, you might think that no rules under
ground fighting is horrible, brutal or barbaric. Even most people do,
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but that's almost the point of it. It is not
for everyone. It's actually barely for anyone at all. Even
most professional fighters.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Wouldn't get involved.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
That's completely understandable. Most people don't want to risk having
their heads smashed off of a concrete floor, or their
eye gouged out, or their skin bitting off. I certainly
would not. That is totally normal. One thing, though, that
I often see brought up in regards to no rules
fighting is the morality of it. This, I think is
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one of the most interesting elements of the scene. People
who are outraged by it can simply look away, but
they won't. Two people fighting in private, hidden from the
rest of the world is no one's business but their own.
And yet still the biggest detractors of no rules want
to act as.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
If they are above the violence. They're not. No one is.
Violence is part of our DNA.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
It is all around us, but it's been sanitized and
repackaged to seem acceptable. If the quote unquote correct people
are doing it now. I don't want to come across
as some boring political philosopher, But I do think there's
a point to be made.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Put it this way, if.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
You have ever cheered on a politician, you have almost
definitely promoted, whether you liked it or not, extreme violence
from left to right. Politicians are involved in dropping bombs
on the heads of people all across the world. This
is not a part is an issue. I've seen it
firsthand myself and my many reporting trips to various front
(26:45):
lines across the world. Heads get blown open, brains poured
onto pavements, Limbs are torn from bodies, skin burns off
of the bones of innocent people. War is far more
violent than anything you will ever see in a no
rules fight. And you can cool clandestine fighters, thugs and
(27:07):
criminals if you want, but they've never since seventeen billion
dollars worth of military aid to a country in the
throes of a televised genocide. It might think this is
a straw man argument, and that's fine. Maybe it is,
but consider this. The people who dictate what level of
the qorum is and isn't allowed in our society are
(27:28):
the very same people who facilitate some of the most
deadly violence in history. My final point is to say
that many people are obsessed with violence or will simply
excuse it. They just don't realize it. At least with
no rules fighting, everyone there knows who they are. So
(27:52):
that was part one of the Away Days podcast. No
Rules is No Rules. Next week will be starting part
two of the podcast, where we'll take you on a
journey through a deadly pavela in Brazil to see what
life is like when a gang takes on the role
of a government. Remember if you want to watch our
Away Days documentaries, go to YouTube dot com slash at
(28:17):
Away Days TV. You've been listening to the Away Days podcast.
Next week part two to watch independent Away Days documentaries,
subscribe to our channel at YouTube dot com slash at
Away Days TV. You Await Days podcast is a production
(28:38):
of H eleven Studio for Cool Zone Media. Reporting, producing, writing,
editing and research by me Jake Hanrahan, co producing by
Soviy Likamin, Music by Sam Black, sound mixed by Splicing Block,
Photography by Johnny Pickup and Louis Hollis. Design by Laura
(29:01):
Adamson and Casey Hifield h
Speaker 6 (29:10):
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