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Hilary E. MacGregor attends an underground girl fight in the downtown warehouse district. If by underground you mean with a publicist, at 11 in the morning, and the fights are being taped for a DVD. The blood, at least that's real. The story is in the L.A. Times Calendar section so you have to be a subscriber, but here's the link.
The underground "scene" is the creation of a 29-year-old woman who will identify herself only as "Marie," but who made herself available for multiple media interviews, from Penthouse to the Los Angeles Times. Marie, a partner in Demolition Pictures, organized these fights, she said, so she could shoot them for a DVD, which she planned to market for $19.95 over the Internet, "Bumfights"-style. She hopes to next spread her "scene" to Detroit, Atlanta and Chicago...That this underground scene exists only because she created it to sell as a commodity to people who want to feel edgy and in the know without ever leaving their living rooms does not bother Marie.