WHERE ARE THEY NOW
Follow-up profiles on underground fighters. Where did they go after the fights? Career updates, life changes, and current status.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: BACKYARD FIGHTERS WHO WENT PRO
The pipeline from backyard to professional arena is not supposed to exist. Sanctioned combat sports have formalized amateur systems, development...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: BACKYARD SQUABBLES ALUMNI
Backyard Squabbles was never just about fighting. When the promotion emerged from the streets of Los Angeles with its "Guns Down, Squabble Up"...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: BKB PIONEERS
Before BKFC staged its first event in Wyoming, before bare knuckle fighting became a pay-per-view commodity in America, the United Kingdom was...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: CALCIO STORICO LEGENDS
Calcio Storico is not underground fighting in the conventional sense. It is older than that. Far older. The game -- part rugby, part soccer, part...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: FIGHTERS FROM THE DAWG FIGHT DOCUMENTARY
When director Billy Corben's *Dawg Fight* premiered on Netflix in 2015, it pulled the curtain back on a world that most Americans had only glimpsed...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: THE ORIGINAL BKFC FIGHTERS FROM 2018
On June 2, 2018, inside a converted arena in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship staged BKFC 1: The Beginning. It was the first...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: EARLY TOP DOG FC FIGHTERS
Top Dog Fighting Championship did not emerge quietly. When the Russian bare knuckle promotion launched its YouTube channel and began uploading fights...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: EAST BAY RATS FIGHT NIGHT VETERANS
The East Bay Rats motorcycle club has operated out of Oakland, California, since the early 2000s, and for nearly as long, the club has been hosting...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: FELONY FIGHTS PARTICIPANTS
Felony Fights was never trying to be a sport. It was a product -- a series of DVDs that filmed convicted felons fighting each other in parking lots,...
KIMBO SLICE'S LASTING LEGACY: WHAT HAPPENED TO EVERYONE IN HIS CIRCLE
Kevin Ferguson died on June 6, 2016. He was 42 years old.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: KOTR MANCHESTER ORIGINALS
Manchester has always been a fighting city. The boxing tradition runs deep -- from the gyms of Moss Side to the arenas that have hosted world...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: ORIGINAL KOTS FIGHTERS
King of the Streets emerged from Denmark with a format that stripped fighting down to its most elemental form. No gloves. No rounds in the...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: LEGENDS OF UNDERGROUND FIGHTING
The underground fighting scene has produced some of the most compelling figures in combat sports history. From backyard brawlers who became household...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: MAHATCH FC VETERANS
Mahatch FC was building something remarkable in Ukraine. Operating out of Kyiv, the bare knuckle promotion had developed a format, a roster, and a...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: ROUGH N' ROWDY BREAKOUT STARS
Rough N' Rowdy was never supposed to produce stars. The concept -- amateur boxing events featuring untrained fighters competing in one-minute rounds...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: NOTABLE STREETBEEFS FIGHTERS
Streetbeefs has never been a stepping stone. That was never the point. When Christopher "Scarface" Wilmore built a ring in his Harrisonburg,...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: STRELKA CHAMPIONS
The sand circle was the stage. A ring of loose sand, roughly fifteen feet in diameter, surrounded by a crowd of spectators pressing in from every...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: UNDERGROUND COMBAT LEAGUE FIGHTERS AFTER UCL CLOSED
On a warm evening in August 2016, in a warehouse somewhere in the Bronx, the Underground Combat League held its final show. There was no announcement...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: VIRAL STREET FIGHTERS OF THE 2000S
Before algorithms optimized for engagement, before content creators studied analytics dashboards, before anyone had coined the phrase "going viral,"...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: WOMEN WHO PIONEERED UNDERGROUND FIGHTING
Underground fighting has always been coded as male. The backyards, the warehouses, the parking lots, the sand circles -- these spaces were built by...