The University Record spotlights the graduate research work of Neil Gong, fellow (2019-21) and assistant professor of sociology. During his graduate studies at UCLA, Neil participated in a “no rules fight club” and began studying the fight subculture. “My initial question was, why are people participating in this strange subculture? But what I ended up focusing on more in that paper is how they do it. How do you actually run a ‘no rules’ fight club? Supposedly you are creating the most realistic street fighting-type scenario as possible and yet no one is dying. … And so, in order to understand that and the informal rules of the club, I had to actually join.” Read the whole feature on The Record.
Faculty Spotlight: Research Scholar Joins Fight Club to Research ‘No Rules’ Subculture
