The illegal fights reported by the Mossos d'Esquadra at the exterior grounds of the Cercs Thermal Power Plant are not an isolated incident but rather part of a network attracting participants from various regions across Spain.
Among the 51 people identified on Sunday afternoon, most were residents of Catalonia, but fighters also traveled from the Balearic Islands, Valencia, and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
This type of competition, known as Street Fighting or bare-knuckle boxing, has a large global audience through specialized internet platforms like Telegram or the Russian site Rutube, where videos of the bouts are shared.
We are in the league we are in, one of the toughest on the planet if not the toughest, and I went for that, to give the maximum of myself.
The inherent danger of the event, coupled with the possibility that illegal betting was taking place, has led the Mossos to open proceedings to investigate the facts.
