The Savage World of Women's Underground Fighting (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781721620319)

These seven stories are about women fighting in underground fight venues and in the prison yard and are based on knowledge of real fights between women and the conditions and circumstances under which these fights actually occur. Tens of thousands of underground fights occur around the world every year.

Underground fights have few rules and in most cases the rules of a fight will be specific to that local venue. It is common for women to fight bare breasted or even completely nude.

Though the use of boxing gloves comprise the majority of fights, women do fight with bare fists or fists protected by tape.

Fights do not end in a decision or a TKO, but end with a knockout. Wobbly and dizzy fighters are encouraged to go on. There are cases where a fighter who has been knocked out has been revived with smelling salts or ice water and continued to fight, sometimes being knocked unconscious more than once.

Unlike gyms and small and large arenas that host above ground fights, underground combat takes place in many types of settings, such as in people's basements or the back of warehouses on mats designating the fight area. They have been in the back rooms of bars or in the basements. Basically, anywhere a fight area can be roped or marked off can serve as a venue for underground combat.

In underground fighting knock downs and knockouts do not necessarily end the fight. A fighter can be knocked out for a significant period of time, be revived and end up knocked out again and again. It all depends on the place of combat. All rules are local in underground fighting.

The seven stories in this book take place in underground venues and in the prison yard. The ten count rule is often waived for longer counts or no count at all.

An incapacitated fighter can be allowed to continue unless rendered completely incapable of fighting any further by being knocked unconscious to the point she cannot be easily revived. I say "she" because these stories cover only women's fights. These are not mixed fights where a man and a woman fight each other. This heinous gladiator type mentality relegates to what are called below ground events and are rarely if ever the purview of underground fights and never with above ground settings.

In these stories, three of the seven events told in this book are grudge matches and in keeping with known underground fight rules, such as they are, one girl rendering another unconscious does not necessarily end the fight. The unconscious girl is revived to fight on as is the case with countless underground battles.

None of the stories involve weapons of any kind as I consider them forbidden in ring fighting and will not relate such a story.

More often than not the word "combat" does more aptly applies than the term boxing, because it is usually a fight to the finish. There is no winning by points and no TKOs. Despite the brutality, the winning woman has been known to have an erotic experience seeing the loser knocked unconscious. Many women report feeling highly aroused to the point of having their clitoris swell and women have even been known to orgasm from the thrill of knocking out and totally dominating another woman.

I won't submit further, because I do not want to ruin the stories. Just be aware they do reflect actual conditions in many underground fight venues.

I could say underground/below ground because in many cases the two are combined in practice. Women may fight topless or even naked and just as often use bare or only taped fists.

There is a brutality in underground combat venues that far surpasses that of above ground fights, where women mostly win by decision and the TKO replaces the KO. Hopefully these stories will pass beyond the level of mere entertainment to bringing an awareness of these fights to the reader. What is done with the information is up to the reader.