{"id":51472,"date":"2025-08-07T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51472\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:46:09","slug":"a-new-documentary-about-violence-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51472\/","title":{"rendered":"a New Documentary About Violence and Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a brutal dichotomy: unconditional love and relentless brutality. Yet for Mathilda \u201cMayhem\u201d Wilson, this is the organizing principle of a life she splits between doting on her young son, Zion, and pursuing her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/tag\/bare-knuckle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bare-knuckle<\/a> boxing career.<\/p>\n<p>Mathilda is the first professional women\u2019s bare knuckle boxer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/tag\/scandinavia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scandinavia<\/a>. That said, in her native <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/tag\/sweden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sweden<\/a>, bare-knuckle fighting is actually illegal: If she were to scrap domestically she could face half a year in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/tag\/prison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prison<\/a>. So instead, she travels the length and breadth of Europe, seeking out competition.<\/p>\n<p>In a new documentary directed by Jake Hanrahan and Jonny Pickup\u2014the filmmaking team behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/PopularFront\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Popular Front<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AwayDaysTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Away Days<\/a>\u2014we follow Mathilda as she breaks new ground for female fighting and ruminates on how life led her to this point.<\/p>\n<p>Watch it now in the player below or over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/vice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VICE\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754606769_933_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a brutal dichotomy: unconditional love and relentless brutality. Yet for Mathilda \u201cMayhem\u201d Wilson, this is the organizing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,34465,802,13958,43191,43192,85],"class_list":["post-51472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bare-knuckle-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-documentaries","tag-female-fighting","tag-mathilda-wilson","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}