Sydney’s kid ‘fight clubs’: NSW Police investigate sick videos

Teenage boys are punching on in suburban parks in Western Sydney, with dozens of their mates and thousands online watching as part of an underground “fight club”.

Teenage boys are punching on in suburban parks in western Sydney with dozens of their mates and thousands online watching on as part of an underground “fight club”.

The young men have broken the first rule about fight club – not to talk about it, let alone post the footage on social media – and now police are looking into their online antics.

A series of confronting videos show the scraps between one-gloved teenage boys viciously throwing punches at each other in the “sanctioned” after school bouts.

The account spruiking the brutal park fights had only been around for a week before gaining thousands of followers online – and the attention of police.

“Police are aware of social media footage that is circulating depicting a fight between teenagers,” a NSW Police spokesman told the Sunday Telegraph.

The brutal fight clubs involve children.

They meet in Sydney parks to fight.

“Following inquiries by officers from Camden Police Area Command, it is believed the prearranged fight took place at Narellan.

“Police and the public in general have zero tolerance for this type of violent behaviour.

“Anyone who organises and/or participates in violent or anti-social behaviour can expect a visit from us.

“We will use all evidence at our disposal to help identify those involved, including these social media posts and videos.”

By Friday morning one of the accounts had been shut down.

Bouts are scheduled to mirror professionals.

Fights are filmed for thousands to watch.

By Friday afternoon, parents of some of the teens involved in the fight club from one western Sydney school had been informed, despite the fights not taking place on school grounds.

In some of the videos there are pre-fight introductions, one minor even offered up his full name.

In others, days before fights are promoted on the account’s Instagram, picturing the opponents and even labelling their weight class.

“No bulls***t all these fights are fair and agreed to,” it bills itself as.

One video even dictates the rules, one glove, no head shots with the ungloved fist but beyond that anything goes.

Crowds also gather to watch the fights in person.

NSW Police say they aware of the footage.

In the background you can see kids in school uniforms, young tradies and teens in footy jerseys all watching on with phones primed onto the action.

“Our schools do not tolerate violent or inappropriate behaviour,” a Department of Education spokeswoman said,

“We are aware of social media footage of young people involved in an incident in the Narellan community.

“This did not occur on school grounds, and it happened outside of school hours.”

One senior police officer this week said while posting fights online was not unusual, it was the first time they had heard of such organised and structured events.

Fighters are even interviewed on camera.

Schedules are updated and promoted online.

Just this week the state government announced new “post and boast” laws aimed at criminalising young people filming and posting crimes online.

Another police source suggested the fight club, in the future, could be captured under the new legislation if police can prove a crime was committed in the fights.

“With something like affray, it only takes one person to say they had a reasonable fear for their safety,” they said.

Some parents have been made aware of their children’s involvement.

The latest incidents follow similar fight clubs around NSW a few years ago.

A similar series of incidents in 2021 at Lithgow saw a 12-year-old girl needing treatment in hospital.

In 2023 another Instagram account gained notoriety for posting fights between students from across the state.

In one case from Dubbo video showed a schoolgirl being slammed into the ground before she was kicked in the face.

Another video from The Central Coast showed a teenage boy being knocked unconscious in a stairwell among footage that had been left up online for as long as four years.

They were later taken down after Instagram was alerted to them by the Telegraph.

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