Not to be the guy here; but it’s mainly financial and identities issues now.
Even historically you had to kind of go about this differently but you could have a normal life outside of the genre, but now, unless you’re a 27-37 year old catfighter who’s made a career out of it I.E. Sarah Brooke, or even like when Chandie chimed in.
Unless you’re willing to commit into this world and probably wind up doing other forms of porn to supplement the income you’d get from catfighting you’re basically tossing a normal 9-5 out the window.
The main reason is financial. Sorry but the idea that catfighting is this big genre and is very lucrative is kinda nonsensical. Is it a well known fetish? Sure, Bettie Paige is probably the deepest most people could get within the genre, but that illustrates the point.
Catfighting doesn’t sell as well as we’d like and there’s not a real industry around it similar to say the BDSM community or other fetishes, like feet. There’s not really a financial incentive to make a ton of this because the erotic appeal of the material is limited when thinking about a broad audience.
Congratulations we are the Warhammer 40k mini fetish! Think about it; the reason the genre is lacking right now, and it’s not because real catfights are still all the rage Slap City isn’t dead that’s gonna release probably rematch soon. GNB just dropped 2 videos last month or maybe feb? Suitefights is kinda quiet from what I’ve seen on twitter, March 25th he said can’t catch a break. And I think So Cal is probably gonna drop some stuff again.
Problem is the audience isn’t there. Honestly it’s not that sexfighting is riding on Catfighting it’s the reverse Catfighting rides on Sex fighting. So it’s just easier to market and make a profit and have access to more willing models.
Plus the Catfighting community is very very nit picky. I’m not innocent here, but that’s kinda not great especially given how limited the audience is I’m sure the models hate it more because it probably feels more personal than say a mass market porn actress.
Issue is right now also you kinda gotta know where to look. There’s an elephant in the room and we all can’t ignore when it comes to piracy. It’s why some models now only do direct sales so they can track where the leaks come from.
Now let’s address content—hot take if you like crystal you should like So Cal. It’s quite literally the same thing when it comes to raw fighting. Mary, Michelle, and Theresa all do the same thing that So Cal did. They all swing to KO.
If you’re looking more ECNWC with some rules well Slapcity, GNB, SF, Mexican Catfights (although I think they’re now done), and a few others too.
Plus don’t forget the European studios also have some catfighting similar in the vein of dww but it’s clearly more wrestling focused. Like fighting dolls got Luna to come back, Ines is still there.
I think we have access to more content than we ever did. I remember having to scoured yahoo groups looking at 40 sec vids trying to guess the studio. Like for example in the late 70s and early 80s there was what maybe a handful of studios that did carfighting for real? You had festelle, who was also more wrestling focused? The American scene I don’t think had anyone solely on it until much later after the oil/mud wrestling scene here.
I think producers, who aren’t grifters, do share the same sentiment with you. They love the grit the intent on winning, the raunchy, the intensity, but also don’t forget ECNWC also was a split studio of catfighting/wrestling.
I think the only thing that really sucks is that we lost access to phat pharahs collection to buy. I’d also add in MCM but they were scripted.
So ya it’s a whole hodge podge of stuff we’re headed into a lull but someone will do something and a new studio will pop up, probably wouldn’t be surprised to more individual sales.
Felt like for a hot minute maybe 2-4 years ago we were gonna get US-Mexico Catfight but it seems stalled now. Plus Santana/Amber retired, Vi is still great, but Santana was UD there and she looked to have one of the meanest belly punches of all
The other thing too is we’re gonna see more and more MMA styled fights in terms of trained models goes too. So it’s always changing.