article_snippet: (CNN)Under harsh lights in a private, rented room in Berlin, women face each other in violent, sometimes bloody battles of brute strength.
article_snippet: There are no official rules to this female fight club.
article_snippet: The fighters are The fighters beginners and professionals, anywhere from age 20 to 50, said photographer Katarzyna Mazur, who spent months documenting the club in 2013 and 2014.
article_snippet: Led by founders nicknamed Anna Konda and Red Devil, a match might pit a bodybuilder against a martial arts master.
article_snippet: They can wrestle, throw punches or "cat fight.
article_snippet: There's no judge, just someone who knows the parameters They've decided for the match.
article_snippet: The small audience is mostly made up of men, but The small audience's a place for women to shed the roles women play outside.
article_snippet: When I saw this kind of fighting for the first time, I was quite shocked.
article_snippet: Inhibition and fear do not exist on the mat.
article_snippet: I had to be very careful not to get hit.
article_snippet: Fortunately, there are chairs on the side, so I could jump on chairs on the side if the female fighters suddenly rolled under my feet.
article_snippet: The bouts, the motivations, the scene can all leave a lot of room for interpretation.
article_snippet: Mazur also had to remember that the fighters pushing and pummeling inside the club have lives outside, too -- the fighters pushing and pummeling inside the club're mothers, partners, friends.
article_snippet: the fighters pushing and pummeling inside the club actions on the mat might contradict how the fighters pushing and pummeling inside the club live the rest of the fighters pushing and pummeling inside the club lives.