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It Could Happen Here - Introducing: Away Days Podcast - A Cold Day for Violence
Episode Date: May 26, 2025Hi, ICHH fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly. Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of s...ociety. We’re compassionately documenting the underground without watering it down or editorially obscuring it. This is independent journalism with no filter. Real, raw, and ugly. Journalist Jake Hanrahan, the host and creator of Away Days has spent the last 10 years embedded in places he’s not meant to be. With unique access and a straightforward style of on-the-ground reporting, the listener will be taken deep into the places they didn’t know existed. Episode 1: A Cold Day for Violence Welcome to the world of ‘No Rules’, a new underground fighting subculture where anything goes. Biting, head stamping, eye gouging, hair pulling, elbows, headbutts—it’s all allowed. These fights are fought on concrete, with no gloves, and no rounds. It’s non-stop organized ultraviolence, and we’ve been allowed to see it first hand… Watch Away Days documentaries at youtube.com/@awaydaystv Listen here and subscribe to Away Days on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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This is part 1
No Rules is No Rules
Episode 1
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It's a cold day for violence. The ground's frosty and the air hurts. Gloves and scarves weather.
Either way, violence is happening. Two men have agreed to attack each other at a pre-arranged
location in Hastings, UK.
I'm driving through southern back roads headed to the desolate seaside town where the fight
is due to take place.
I'm an outsider to all involved and, true, they all hate journalists, but still I've
been trusted to attend.
This planned combat isn't about solving a dispute though.
The two men have no hatred or real animosity toward one another.
They just want to fight.
Not in a ring or with gloves or with rounds though.
This is something else.
There will be no judges or sporting organisations.
No health checks or even a weigh in.
No safety gear and no precautions.
The fight won't be televised and there
will be no official sponsors. It's important to understand that this is not
unlicensed MMA, street beef or bare-knuckle boxing. This is a new form of
organized violence. People involved have coined it no rules And yes no rules means no rules
Anything goes
Kicking, punching, headbutting, elbows, knees, eye gouging, head stamping, choking and even biting
What's more authentic no rules has to take place on concrete or something equivalent
Hard floors and no rules. It's as extreme
as it gets.
Google Maps pings. I've got to reach a location the fighters texted to me yesterday. Then
I've got to wait. I'm close. I pull onto a side road through a small wooded area and follow the
route ahead. It's mid January and the sun's going down fast. The sky is red and orange.
You can feel the outside cold inside the car. It's hardly ideal fighting weather. My phone phone rings. Caller ID Joey Hapgood.
Joey is a street fighter from South Wales. He's 27 years old and by far one of the most energetic people in the UK.
If methamphetamine was a person, it'd be Joey.
Most times I speak with him he's absolutely bouncing off the wall. He's extremely friendly and very genuine.
He can only be himself. It's a contagious energy honestly. Perhaps at odds with his happy demeanor, Joey is
desperate to make a name for himself in the underground fight scene. He's tough as
bricks and scared of nobody and as an up-and-comer he's hungry to prove
himself. Generally No Rules is organized through illegal fight clubs
but Joey's ready anywhere. I reached the location a large but otherwise non
discrete car park surrounded by trees and streetlights. When I get out the car I
hear Joey before I see him. He's with a few friends and is already shadow boxing
on the spot, casting rapid phosphor coated shadows. He laughs loudly every few seconds,
he can't wait. We shake hands and he hugs me like an old friend, but this is the first
time we've met.
Do you know where we're going?
No yeah yeah but I'm going to get picked up in a Vagina, I'm going to get picked up in
a G-Wagon apparently.
How you feeling?
I'm fucking so amazing.
I'm fucking good right now.
I'm gonna have you up like, do you know what I mean?
Joey looks like a character from the video game Mortal Kombat.
He's about 5'10", stocky, all muscle.
Blue eyes as bright as his white teeth.
He's got three different haircuts in one.
Bleach blonde down the middle, shaved to zero at the sides, long mullet style tail
down the back with black highlights. His neck is peppered with tattoos including
a 666 next to a Jesus crucifix. He wears a George Michael earring and keeps his
beard short but dyed black. The dye leaves perfect lines across his face
so it looks as if he sprayed the whole beard on with a stencil.
I've never seen anyone like it. He's a sight to behold.
Joey has travelled 200 miles from Port Talbot to be here at this random car park in Hastings.
It's took him 5 hours. He's come to fight an old school
no rules fighter nicknamed Bash. The pair organised a fight over Instagram direct messages. He's not wrong, the man he's about to fight is notorious in the underground for biting off a piece of another man's ear in a no rules fight a couple years back.
The brawl took place in a closed mechanics garage and despite permanently disfiguring his opponent with his teeth,
Bash actually lost that fight. He was knocked to the ground by his opponent, who then pushed both thumbs deep into Bash's eye sockets.
Bash screaming was then saved by the makeshift referee who stopped the fight.
There are only two ways for no rules to end. Either you get knocked out, or you get beaten
so badly the appointed referee steps in. Referee in this case is a loose term.
It's basically anyone involved who's allocated as the guy who has to stop the fight when
a one sided beating continues for an extended period.
Some stop the fight when head stamping or eye gouging starts, others don't.
There's no rule book.
The only use for a towel in No Rules is to mop up the
blood. Yes, it is brutal.
Now, to put it lightly, Bash has been on a bit of a losing streak as of late. People
in the scene have accused him of being washed up, saying that he can't stay sober for a
fight anymore. Bash argues that he doesn't care win or lose. He'll fight anyone anywhere sober or not
He claims to see no rules as a game a bit of a laugh
Problem is bash is 45 now. That's 18 years Joey senior the potential risk of irreversible damage is
Considerably higher for a man of his age
But still bash doesn't care.
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I would tell other people too, like, hey, you want to meet up and look for him?
I'd be so down.
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A black Audi hatchback with two younger lads in bubble north face coats pulls up to the car park. We're all huddled waiting for instructions. It's fully dark now. The lads jump out and
introduce themselves. It's clear that they're not fighters, just messengers. In thick northern accents
they explain that Joey and his guys are to go with them and I'm to follow behind in my
car.
Joey flings on his jacket and jumps into the back of the Audi with one of his friends.
I follow in my car, Joey's entourage follows in theirs. We drive through the back of the Audi with one of his friends. I follow in my car, Joey's entourage
follows in theirs. We drive through the middle of Hastings in a small convoy. Our headlights
flood past neon petrol stations and blocks of flats for what feels like forever.
We finally arrive at a built up residential street close to the fight destination.
We finally arrive at a built up residential street close to the fight destination. A dozen of Bash's people are waiting.
A blur of North Face and Stone Island.
Bash emerges from the middle of his crowd.
He's about 6 foot tall, broad, covered in tattoos.
He's half Arab, half white and has a face worn from years of brawling.
Coincidentally he too has a 6'6 666 and a crucifix tattooed on
his neck. Joey hops out the car, he's aggressive, all action ready to go. He's pushing past
people who are trying to keep him back. Joey is transformed, The mad as a hat and smiley demeanour is gone. He
now looks like an angry dog let out a cage. This lad shouting is a big lump from up north
who previously fought Bash and won. He'll be the makeshift referee for this fight.
Joey and Bash are having words and has called for calm from the gathering crowd. Bash turns
back with his guys and they move off the pavement and down a side road. Bright headlights spill
out from the shadows. That's where the fight's happening. The makeshift ref emerges a couple minutes later and waves for us to come.
Joey pulls off his coat, tenses his shoulders and strides up the path.
He's wearing a t-shirt by the underground fightwear brand Militant, an emerging force
in the British hooligan and no rules scene.
The logo is a knuckle duster wired across the chest. Fitting.
We turn a corner, it's here, about 50 square feet of fuck all. The scene is lit with headlights
from a boxy Land Rover Defender packed at the back. The floor is rough concrete,
jagged and specked with grit for wear and tear. If your head hits this, it's bursting open.
Bash is stood at one end of his space, moving on his feet, fluttering the defenders headlights.
Joey bowls in.
His back is up like a dog when the firework goes off.
At each side people stand watching, their phones up ready to record.
Lady shouting has her phone torch on bright
as she films. She stood next to Bash. I recognise her. I've seen her online. It's his wife.
She's his biggest fan and could be heard cheering him on during most of his fight videos. It's
kind of romantic honestly. Joey's boys cheer him on as he approaches Bash. There's a brief pause.
Both fighters stare at each other for a second.
The tension is in the air heavy like fog.
Then bang!
Bash leaps towards Joey throwing a spinning back kick.
It misses.
Joey throws a stiff right jab into Bash's face.
He's knocked off balance.
Dropped.
Bash hits the concrete.
Joey moves over him but stops. For whatever reason, both fighters decided beforehand that
they wanted to do no rules, but with one rule. They wanted to do a stand up fight, as in
no ground work, but with no gum shields. Makes no sense to me, but that's the chaotic realness
of no rules fighting.
The ref moves in so Bash can stand up. Off they go again. Joey kicks Bash and throws
two huge hooks. Bash kicks Joey and throws back. They both end up in a tangle of sweeping
punches. Some miss, some land. Joey is all power, pushing forward, grabbing, punching. Bash looks tired but
he's fighting and he's definitely sober for this one. The crowd is on fire at this
point. The two men swing it out in the shadow of the headlights. After around a
minute or so, Joey grabs Bash and lands three solid jabs in his jaw. Bash goes
down again and scrapes his head off a brick wall.
Is he leaving or what?
Keep to him! Come on Bash! Is he done? Is he done? again and scrapes his head off a brick wall. The ref lets him get up but he shakes his
head as he does. It's over. Joey is fuming. Joey's eyes are wired with adrenaline, his fist still clenched, Joey wants more, I can tell he's not happy.
Bash has had enough though, the fight is over.
So what's happened is basically Bash has just said, you know, he's done, he didn't want to fight anymore.
Joe's come up here expecting like a much bigger terror.
He's a little bit disappointed, I think he wanted to continue fighting.
But now they're going to have a drink, a party and everything's good.
So I guess that's how it works.
If you'd seen all this from the sidelines without knowing anyone involved you'd be forgiven for thinking it was some kind of blood feud.
But Bash and Joey are now shaking hands and getting on like old friends.
There's a perception of course of street fighting men that Joey doesn't agree with.
I'm not a bad person like I won't do it. Joey doesn't agree with. I first heard about No Rules in 2022 through a friend of mine who's a long time football
hooligan. Not the original British kind where pub men suited in Stone Island and Aqua Scoot
them would fight throughout the streets and stadiums but the european version where well trained
combat ready firms meet secretly to fight in secluded forests around matchdays and derbies.
Naturally this hooligan friend of mine has his ear to the ground when it comes to organised
violence. He showed me videos from some early no rules events.
The fight where the guy got part of his ear bitten off.
A fight where someone is headbutted unconscious.
A fight where a screaming, starred up neo nazi has his eyes pushed in with an eye gouge.
It goes on and on.
Serious, ruthless, but consensual violence.
All of the fights in the videos were arranged by King of the
Streets or COTS, essentially the Tyler Durden of contemporary underground no rules fighting.
COTS is run by a group known as Hype Crew. Hype Crew is made up of hooligans, organised
criminals and seasoned street fighters. They pretty much birthed no rules as far back as 2018.
At first, Hype Crew filmed these organized fights on the streets in Sweden.
On concrete, no rules, no federation, no protection.
All raw.
They uploaded the videos to YouTube under the COTS banner.
The channel eventually blew up, gaining over 1 million subscribers in the space of 6 years.
And so, Hype Crew created what has now become one of the most hardcore countercultures to
emerge in Europe for decades.
Now there are several no rules fight clubs, completely unaffiliated with kots. I've found
them in Germany, England, Sweden, Spain, France, Denmark and beyond.
Don't get it confused though, everyone involved with this is aware that no rules fighting
is not a sport. No one cares about the money.
Hype Crew themselves started kots for free. After their success they now pay fighters
anywhere from 600 to over a thousand euros if they win, also paying for all travel and
accommodation for the fight. Losers, it's said, get around half that if they put on
a good show, nothing if they don't.
The money is hardly the point though, nobody involved
in no rules fighting is doing it for a paycheck. This isn't about profit, it's about adrenaline
and exclusivity. As hype crew associate and undefeated cots fighter Brian Hoy says, your
favourite fighter's favourite fighter is scared to do this shit. What hype crew has
created is not a combat sport, it's a counterculture.
Whilst the violent counterculture of No Rules is new,
organised no holds barred fighting is actually as old as time. It dates back to at least the 8th
century where men in ancient Greece would brawl for fun, entertainment and glory. They
had a specific style known as pancration, which it can be argued was an ancient progenitor
to hype crews no rules.
Pancration was a combination of boxing and wrestling with almost zero physical restrictions.
The only real rules were no biting and no eye gouging. The
Greeks believed that the mythic hero Theseus created the fighting style whilst defeating
the Minotaur, a half bull, half man monster. The historical channel Up For Education, run
by a former martial arts teacher, has this to say about the sport. athlete's physical prowess and mental agility. And so the aim of pancretion was to incapacitate
your opponent as brutally as is allowed. It was hugely popular in ancient Greece and was one of
the main events of the Olympic Games after being introduced in 648 BC. There's pottery, mosaics
and even bronze sculptures from that era that celebrate fighting.
One of the best preserved examples is the Termae Boxer, a sculpture that was made somewhere
between 330 BC and 50 BC.
The relic was dug up out of the ground in 1885 on the side of Crinale Hill in Rome.
The sculpture depicts a lean bearded fighter sat on a rock,
hands wrapped and expression tired after what was clearly a brutal fight. Half a dozen cuts
are etched into the bronze of his face. His shoulders are slightly hunched. The muscles
he's built are for violence, not for vanity.
Now all that is to say, ultra aggressive organised fighting is not just a
symptom of our nightmarish, sickened, lying modern society but actually a natural practice as old as
ancient Greece. So perhaps those involved in no rules have the same fire in their belly as the pangratian fighters of old. I want to find out by attending as
many of these clandestine events as possible.
She was a decorated veteran, a marine who saved her comrades, a hero.
She was stoic, modest, tough, someone who inspired people.
Everyone thought they knew her until they didn't.
I remember sitting on her couch and asking her, is this real?
Is this real? Is this real? Is this real?
I just couldn't wrap my head around what kind of person would do that to another
person that was getting treatment, that was, you know, dying. I just couldn't wrap my head around what kind of person would do that to another person
that was getting treatment, that was dying.
This is a story all about trust and about a woman named Sarah Kavanaugh.
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hosted by me, writer and historian, Dan Flores,
and brought to you by Velvet Buck.
This podcast looks at a West available nowhere else.
Each episode, I'll be diving into some
of the lesser known histories of the West.
I'll then be joined in conversation by guests
such as Western historian, Dr. Randall Williams,
and bestselling author and meat eater founder
Stephen Rinella.
I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here.
And I'll say, it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity
for caves.
So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come
to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience
the region today.
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wherever you get your podcasts.
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gun?
Sometimes the answer is yes.
But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no.
Across the country, cops call this Taser the revolution.
But not everyone was convinced it was that simple.
Cops believed everything that Taser told them.
From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened
when a multi-billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission.
This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Inc.
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It started with a TikTok.
I didn't find out about her death until I saw it on TikTok.
The suspect was captured after videos on social media helped lead to his arrest in Mexico
and it ended in a murder trial.
The defendant committed a first degree murder when he murdered Daisy DeLau.
I hate everything that this parasite represents.
Everything.
I'm Jen Swan.
I'm the writer and host of My Friend Daisy,
the true story of how and why a group of teenage girls
turn to social media to get justice.
I would tell other people too, like,
hey, you want to meet up and look for him.
I'd be so down.
And I did make eye contact with him and it freaked me the hell out.
It's like, how do you think you're going to get away with something like this?
Like you killed somebody.
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Whilst researching the no rules scene, I came across a small but new underground fight club
looking to recruit. They're extremely low key but asking around on the Telegram app
for fighters. No one will be paid but they get to fight.
I messaged the anonymous user looking to learn more about this fight club. At first he was
naturally suspicious but after we spoke a while he seemed to accept that I wasn't undercover
law enforcement or some rat type reporter looking to do a hit piece on underground fight
clubs. I showed him that I am genuinely fascinated with the counterculture and I'm looking to make a documentary about no rules.
I showed him my previous work with my platform Popular Front and he liked it.
I also explained that I myself have been involved in combat sports since I was 14 years old
having joined up at a Thai boxing gym as a teenager.
I still train there to this day regularly and I consider the people there part of my
family.
I understand the combat sports comradery to some degree."
The anonymous user accepted it and he told me his name is Leon.
Leon and his friends were inspired by King of the Streets years back when it first got
popular on YouTube.
They were teenagers at the time.
Gee'd up on adolescent angst and the general mischief of bored young men, they decided
to fight each other in the vein of cots.
At first they did it only amongst themselves, holding their first low-key gathering in a
parking lot.
They liked it.
A lot.
When they realised though that a police station was close by to the parking lot where they
were fighting, they decided to find a better location and put on a proper event.
This is why they were on Telegram looking for fighters.
The first proper fight club would be open to anyone, even a persistent and probably
annoying journalist from England.
They decided I'd be allowed to attend on the condition I protect their identities.
Of course I agreed.
It took three weeks of this back and forth, but we sorted it.
Next stop, France.
Now I'm stepping off a plane in the south of France.
We don't actually have the address for where this fight club is.
All we know is they're going to be contacting us at some point and telling
me when and where and we've got to move quick whenever it is that they say.
Now when I say south of France you might be surprised to know that we're literally in
Cannes. The fancy film festival city where Hollywood movie stars come to act important.
A place where the rich and famous fawn over each other and quaff champagne.
A place where films directed for other directors are screened and applauded.
Cannes is hardly the place for an underground no rules fight club.
But here I am.
As I walk with my bag on my back en route to a cheap 3 day hotel I pass
by Rolex shops and Gucci stores.
The streets are clean, palm trees line the roads and I can see literal yachts in the
harbour.
Where the hell is Leon and his mates planning to fight?
I'm starting to think something is not right here. That's just occurred to me that this might all be a bit of a stitch up.
So why would there be a brutal, no rules fight club
in one of the flashiest cities in Europe?
Cannibal places where filmmakers that
think they're too important go to stare in the mirror
whilst playing their films.
Maybe Leon's wound me up here,, maybe he's thought you know what
I don't like reporters I'm gonna send this idiot on a wild goose chase and waste his money and just
tell him that the fight club is in Cannes and see if he goes there and well here I am so
it's part of it doesn't add up to be honest it's so flash around here I can't see it being
where would they even have it anyway I don't know we'll see to be fair if he
has if he has done that it's annoying as it would be kind of fair play like it's
a pretty good wind-up if that's what he's done but I hope not
after checking in at the hotel I get a message on Telegram from another anonymous user.
He tells me his name is Victor and he's running the Cannes Fight Club with Leon.
I try to chat to him for a bit but he's not interested.
He sends me coordinates and tells me to meet him there at midnight.
No cameras, no equipment.
It's a solid 30 minute drive away from my hotel in what looks to be a gated community.
A place where rich people live, especially rich if it's in Cannes.
At least that's what it looks like on Google Maps.
This has got to be a trick.
I'm sure now that I've travelled all the way to Cannes just to be mugged off by some
rowdy young fighters who've no regard for what I'm trying to document.
Whatever, it is what it is. Either way I tell this Victor fella that I'll be
there at midnight, see you there. Let's see what happens.
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Graphic Design by Laura Adamson and Casey Highfield. I've seen a lot of stuff over 30 years, you know, some very despicable crime and things
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Why is a soap opera western like Yellowstone so wildly successful?
The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the MeatEater Podcast Network.
So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today.
Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I know a lot of cops. They get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun?
Sometimes the answer is yes.
But there's a company dedicated to
a future where the answer will always be no.
This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated.
I get right back there and it's bad.
Listen to Absolute Season 1,
Taser Incorporated on the iHeart Radio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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