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Lexington Steele has seen men fight on porn sets, naked and still hard, and he says breaking it up is the funniest thing in the world, because you're trying to get between them without anything touching you. He came close to a fight himself. He was shooting in Prague or Hungary for West Coast Productions with Darren James, Justin Slayer, Mr. Marcus and Mark Anthony when one of the guys kept refusing to be on the bottom in a DP. Lex was tired of always being the one stuck down there, so he got up off the bed and they went at it. He won't say who it was. One of the few times he couldn't perform, he says, was with a girl drinking so heavily she couldn't do her part, and fans who watch a guy fail on camera have no idea what happened behind the scenes. Nikki Benz has never seen women fight in her girl-girl-boy scenes, since casting usually sorts out who won't work with whom. Her story is about a female co-star at a rented house who kept sneaking the owners' alcohol while the director wasn't looking, got drunk and arrogant, and started trying to fight people until she was sent home before the crew could beat her up. Vlad adds that his friend Swave beat up a couple of dudes on sets over the years, and he remembers a Seymour Butts reality show that aired girls in a fistfight. Two of the men on Lex's trip made headlines later. Mr. Marcus faked a syphilis test in 2012, helped shut the industry down, and went to jail for it. In April 2004 Darren James tested positive for HIV in routine screening after a condomless shoot in Brazil, where he's believed to have caught it. Production companies stopped shooting, 53 performers who had sex with him or his partners went into quarantine, and at least one actress who worked with him, 21-year-old newcomer Lara Roxx, also tested positive. James later took a job as a security guard, and by 2009 he was arguing for mandatory condoms in porn. Nikki was born in Ukraine in 1981, grew up in Toronto, and became Penthouse Pet of the Year 2011, a title that came with a diamond key necklace. In 2014 she announced a run for mayor of Toronto against Rob Ford, who was in rehab over crack cocaine at the time, and told voters to trade in their Ford for a Benz. The city rejected her application because her Ontario driver's license had expired. In June 2016 Brazzers made her its first brand ambassador. That December she accused director Tony T. of choking her and co-star Ramon Nomar of stomping on her during a shoot called Nikki Goes Nuts, and said it wasn't supposed to be a rape scene. Brazzers cut ties with Tony T. He denied everything, and on the day she went to police, he and Nomar sued her and Brazzers for defamation. Nomar dropped out of that suit in early 2017. In 2018 she sued Brazzers, its parent company MindGeek, Tony T. and Nomar for sexual battery, alleging she was hit on the face, head and breasts until she bled. In 2019 a California appeals court handed her a significant loss in Tony T.'s case against her. Are porn set fights just funny behind-the-scenes stories, or is the stuff that never made it to camera much worse than anything Lex and Nikki told here?