The fights that took place in Harris' back yard have evolved. These guys were fighting for a better shot, a better life," Harris said. "At the end of the day, this isn't violence this is an alternative toward violence. Some of the fighters were seriously hurt. The back yard fights were not regulated by the Florida State Boxing Commission and were threatened to be shut down, Corben said.
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"That became the goal - for these kids to go into the back yard, to fight, videotape it, upload it to YouTube and hopefully get discovered by pro MMA trainers or promoters and go pro." "Everybody all over the world knew who was, so that became the mission," Corben said.
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Harris said he was inspired by Kimbo Slice, a professional fighter who made his start fighting in South Florida back yards. That's kind of the reality of the streets," Corben said.
"Spending two years with these fighters, we saw at least five of them go pro directly from the back yard, and two that didn't live that long. "We treated it like a real event, with neck passes credentials," Harris said of the back yard fights.Ĭorben and his team of filmmakers with Rakontur met Harris in 2012 and would spend nearly two years in Harris' back yard, where the fights took place. Harris, who goes by the name Dada 5000, collected money for the fights and would pay both the winners and the losers a cut.
The protagonist of "Dawg Fight" is Dhafir Harris, a burgeoning promoter known as the Don King of street fighting. "When the blue tarp goes up, the neighborhood knows it's going down," Corben said. The Miami New Times first reported on the phenomenon in a 2008 cover story called "No Fear."īilly Corben, the Miami-based filmmaker behind "Cocaine Cowboys" and "The U," has made a documentary about it called "Dawg Fight," to premiere at the Miami International Film Festival. – In the southwest Miami-Dade County neighborhood of West Perrine, hundreds of locals would regularly gather around a homemade back yard boxing ring to witness young men punch each other without gloves, with no medical staff on standby, and few rules to govern the fights.
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