You read it correctly the first time. It would be a sad and fitting tribute to this bleak vision if fight clubs did spring up. As hyper-realistic as it all may sound, the film really is one big, angry guffaw. And then, it laughs at the absurdity of it all. Advocacy groups will point to this film next time a high school kid senselessly beats the hell out of another, but I guess that's better than shooting each other.
Faces swell up, teeth get punched out, and bones are broken.
There are far healthier ways to shake off the bindings of our mundane existences. Like, say, writing movie reviews.