And finally… trial by combat

Three prostitutes decided to settle a dispute over an alleged theft of cash with a boxing match the New York Post reports.

Yaya and Indie challenged the third woman, Africa, to a fight in a Harlem townhouse after accusing her of stealing $80 from them.

Africa agreed, but only on the condition the other women stripped, declaring, according to one source: “This is how I want to fight.”

Lorenzo Sykes, 52, the women’s pimp, then filmed the scrap while accomplice Christopher Hudson, 20, acted as referee.

Indie and Yaya were successful in beating Africa and recovering the cash – from her private parts.

But Africa subsequently ran around the corner to a church where she reported the pimp, accomplice and another man for kidnapping and trafficking her into sex work.

Police arrested the three men and a case ensued which is ongoing.

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