Good old fashioned fight club… We need more of these to cope with the unnecessary stress of modern life. It’s a known fact.

Every third Saturday, for more than a year now, “farm boys and city boys” don boxing gloves and helmets at the Underground Saloon a few miles north of Hartford “to find out what they got” by punching and kicking each other under the watchful eye of tavern owner Scott Flitsch..

“Any form of fighting is allowed. Just no knees or elbows,, no cheap shots, no bone breaking,” said Flitsch, whose Washington County tavern draws about 250 people, five times his regular Saturday night crowd, to what he calls Underground Fighting Competition.

Flitsch’s slugfests began in early 2006 while he and some bar patrons were watching a Spike TV show about Ultimate Fighting Championship, commonly referred to as UFC, on the television above the bar.

“We thought we could put something on like that,” he said.

The increasing popularity of UFC and of competitions like Flitsch’s prompted the Slinger Village Board on June 4 to introduce an ordinance, patterned after one passed in Milwaukee a decade ago, that would outlaw such events. It has to be reviewed at two more meetings before it can be adopted.

The ordinance would prohibit “ultimate or extreme” fighting events for which a state license has not been issued. The measure, which borrows language from a 1996 Milwaukee ordinance, defines ultimate and extreme fighting as “any combination of boxing, kicking, wrestling, hitting, punching or other combative contact techniques.”

Interesting to say the least!

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