AN ORGANISED “fight club” at Kildare Catholic College has resulted in several students being suspended.

The school this week admitted the incident had happened, saying the children may have been inspired by recent martial art and boxing contests in Wagga.

The Daily Advertiser believes two boys in Year 7 and Year 9 organised to fight twice last week in the boys’ toilets and were holding a rematch when caught by teachers.

Staff were alerted to the underground fights after video of the first bout was found on a mobile phone.

There were no injuries in the fights, however, one of the children was knocked down during the fight but continued on.

A group of several students has now been suspended by the school and it is understood one of the combatants also has a history of poor behaviour and could be facing expulsion.

Deputy principal Simon Huntly said the whole situation went against the school’s philosophy.

“It was an error of judgement on their part, the parents have been contacted and disciplinary action has been taken,” Mr Huntly said.

“Maybe they picked up the idea from

one of the fight nights, I don’t know, but we have high expectations of our students and what happened goes against the beliefs of our school.”

It was the first time such an incident has happened at the school but not the first time students have come under close scrutiny.

Head trainer at Wagga’s Street Alert Gym, Liam Priest said some students lacked discipline.

“We’ve stopped training students from Kildare, they were a non-stop hassle and lacked discipline,” he said.

“To say that a fight night could inspire these kids to start their own fights is a bit of a stretch, I think with the amount of mixed martial art DVD’s and TV the kids are getting the wrong idea.”

Kildare students were made aware of the fights during an assembly on Monday, where they were all warned about the ramifications of such incidents and Mr Huntly said he was confident there would be no repeat.