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[Tripon]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-student-fight-club-20170516-story.html

Multiple students were involved in betting on, recording and sharing on social media a series of staged fights in a bathroom at Tarkanian Middle School this year.

It was referred to as ”fight club" — recalling the 1999 film of the same name starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. It appeared to adhere to the main rule established in the movie: Don't talk about fight club.

”We were sitting around the dinner table last night and my wife pulled it up on her phone and said, ‘Did you see this?'" Hernandez said. ”I couldn't believe it. Wow."

The 36-year-old said his sixth-grade daughter didn't know anything about the fight club until she saw it on a KTNV-13 Action News segment Monday.

Students interviewed Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times offered varying estimates of how long the fight club was in existence. Some said it had been going on for a week, others said several weeks. As for wagering on the fights, several students said the bets were usually about $5 to $10. Most said the preferred method for sharing the fight videos on social media was either on Instagram or Snapchat.

A few students who said they witnessed the fights said one of the fight rules was no hits to the face. Only body blows — to conceal bruises — were allowed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P6Yz6XjhLo

 

[nhlducks35]

It appeared to adhere to the main rule established in the movie: Don’t talk about fight club.

Um

 

[Lulubop]

Wasn't there one at like a daycare or some crazy shit?

 

[No Love]

The things you own end up owning you.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

no hits to the face, tyler duren sadface

sounds like school to me and not really that serious, kids are idiots. carry on.

 

[Hierophant]

Lol I think I tried to start one of these with my friends back in high school, lucky I have the organizational skills of a baboon

 

[Shirke]

"Don't talk about Fight Club." Yet they shared videos on social media.

 

[watershed]

And this certainly ain't the only school with a secret fight club.

 

[nabe_shogun]

And this certainly ain't the only school with a secret fight club.

Yeah, we had one when I was in 11th grade, but it got broken up when more and more people kept coming, so the teachers found out.

 

[itchyass86]

Pffft they're doin it wrong. Gotta find sand dunes so you can actually practice take downs and grappling without gettin your elbows, knees, neck, and your noggin wrecked.

 

[tuna_love]

every school had a fight club

 

[erawsd]

And this certainly ain't the only school with a secret fight club.

We basically had one in my middle school. Toward the end of the year our Gym teacher would just take roll and then go back to his office, leaving us totally unsupervised. Started out as wrestling but people were getting hurt, so someone brought boxing gloves and we did that instead,

 

[disappeared]

Chuck Palahniuk is rolling in his grave.

 

[wisdom0wl]

Fight club but proceed to post about it on social media. Fucking amateurs.

Spoiler

dumbass kids smh. Why

 

[maruchan]

Amateur hour back when this movie came out in 99 fight clubs popped everywhere...

 

[TheChuggernaut]

The no hits to the face rule is the same rule me and friend used when we would fight so we wouldn't actually get pissed at each other. We also had a fight club, but I'm pretty sure it kind of fizzled out. Kids do dumb shit.

 

[siddx]

Nothing new. My senior year of high school, in 2000, we had a handful of kids start a fight club in our school. Didn't last long as most of the members had never been in an actual fight and it took about one good punch for 2/3 of the kids to nope the fuck out.

 

[ChouGoku]

We had one for a minute in high school. I would imagine this is common when you have abunch of adolescent boys in a group where one of them has seen fight club.

 

[Javier23]

Chuck Palahniuk is rolling in his grave.

Is the joke flying over my head? He's very much alive.

 

[Trickster]

Title really needs a "Kids at"in front of it. Current title makes it sound like the school arranged it

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Wasn't there one at like a daycare or some crazy shit?

Yeah, with young kids orchestrated by adults. Don't remember where, but it was sickening.

 

[A Link to the Past]

It's definitely bad, but yeah, I'd thought it was going to be adults orchestrating it, so at least there's that lol.

 

[old manatee]

Nice culture, Vegas.

 

[Hierophant]

most "fight clubs" started by dumbass teens (like i was a few years ago) are usually just weak ass kids who can't take a punch to save their life (like i still probably am)

 

[ozz ex machina]

Nice culture, Vegas.

It's fucking teenagers.

 

[bengraven]

About time kids stand up and act like real men. We're all so tired of the pampering culture. Now not only are they blissfully condoning beating the weak up again, but they're learning to respect money and won't be supporting a welfare state when they graduate.

 

[It's Reyn Time!]

We had Murderball, which was basically a 10-20 person fight with a constantly shifting number of poorly defined teams, allegiances and objectives, and quite often it involved a ball.

 

[Carl]

Pretty clever of them. Good entrepreneurial thinking

 

[KingK]

My high school had a "fight club" in the locker room during lunch for months. Eventually the teachers caught on from all the bloody noses and shit, and started locking the gym/locker rooms.

This was before Snapchat and shit though.

 

[Maximus P]

A few students who said they witnessed the fights said one of the fight rules was no hits to the face. Only body blows — to conceal bruises — were allowed.

 

[Hindl]

I did this with my friends in high school, except there was no money involved. Body shots only and we just would fight for fun

 

[soultron]

I did this with my friends in high school, except there was no money involved. Body shots only and we just would fight for fun

Same. We called it Thunder Dome. Tina Turner never showed to watch, sadly.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

You are not your grades.
You're not how much money you make in allowance.
You're not the bus you ride.
You're not the contents of your pokemon collection.

 

[many places]

Is the joke flying over my head? He's very much alive.

Reminds me of the Wade Boggs joke from Always Sunny.

 

[HiiiLife]

I did this with my friends in high school, except there was no money involved. Body shots only and we just would fight for fun

I've seen similar things in HS as well. No money.

Well more like kids with boxing gloves and sparring in the locker room lol.

 

[DustyVonEric]

We actually had kind of a fun Fight Club / bathroom rumble in between periods.

We'd all agree to race to the bathroom before math. But the last one there would get jumped and beat down real quick, and then we'd race back to class before the bell. We were all friends, and no one tried to really fuck you up, tear your clothes, or anything like that.

I remember one dude swinging from the bathroom stall and drop-kicking me in the back of the head. Crazy stuff. But we were laughing and having fun.

And now that my kid is about to start school, I am terrified.

 

[johancruijff]

Is the joke flying over my head? He's very much alive.

Maybe he bought a grave and likes to roll in it

Who are we to judge?

 

[explodet]

So can we go back to movies being the major bad influence on kids and not video games?
That would be pretty nice.