{"id":6995,"date":"2015-11-28T13:32:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T20:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6995"},"modified":"2015-11-30T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T20:37:23","slug":"all-female-fight-club-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/28\/all-female-fight-club-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"All-female Fight Club in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Inside the all-FEMALE fight club: The secret Berlin group where women go topless to take part in no-holds-barred bouts that leave them bruised and bleeding<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0PHOEBE JACKSON-EDWARDS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheThe women often fight topless, like male fighters would usually, with one combatant showing off bruises and marks from being raked by her opponents’ fingers<\/em><\/p>\n

There are no rules in the all-female fight club, just grit and determination as women of all sizes and shapes pit themselves against each other in the ring.<\/p>\n

Photographer Katarzyna Mazur has captured the East Berlin-based club in a series of no-holds barred portraits of the women, often battered and bruised, taking each other on in fighting gear or topless.<\/p>\n

The private club has no official guidelines and does not have one particular fighting style and shows women – who are practising their sport unpaid, for the sheer challenge of combat – throwing off the preconceived notions about their gender to compete as equals.<\/p>\n

The club was started in 2010 by female fighters Anna Konda and Red Devil, from Russia, as a place for women to come and fight.<\/p>\n

Anna was very slim when she was younger, but is now much ‘bigger’ she told Vice UK but she said she could not keep her trim figure forever.<\/p>\n

She said about her wrestling: ‘I don’t enjoy the pain of others. I enjoy my own power and having control.<\/p>\n

‘I guess sometimes this can amount to the same thing for my prey.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at The Daily Mail<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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