There are no bells in Street MMA. Sure, you have the occasional car horn honks and cameramen’s “ooooooohhhhhs”/”ahhhhhhhhhhhs” but when you give up position, get TKO’d and your opponent walks away the fight is usually over. Good job. Good game. Good effort. “Ittttttt isssssss allllllll oooooooooovvvvvver”- *Mike Goldberg voice* But wait there’s more! After getting
Street MMA does not abide by the rules of the road. You have beef? It’s the middle of rush hour traffic? Well, it looks you’re going to have pull over and deliver some street MMA justice. Don’t worry its okay to park your car in the middle of the road while you throw hands. Haters
Street MMA is fluid. As we know, it can take place anywhere. Street MMA, at its essence, is not just MMA that takes place on the streets proper, as it embodies a flailing disregard for what makes us human (empathy, societal rules, and constructs which bind us together as we are all one). Street MMA
Live mas. This is the credo of Taco Bell, where a grappling match can break out at any time. In this stressful current year, it’s important to know that living mas is something that cannot be interrupted by a grappling match between two women in a parking lot, no. “Uh, yeah, can I have 3
It’s hard out there in these streets, especially if you have a short temper and a loud mouth. Not everyone is playing Pokémon GO and frolicking merrily into gardens to collect augmented reality critters. Some dudes are just trying to carry something they picked up at the corner store home, then a wild asshole appears,
Unlike other sports MMA is not confined to a singular playing field. From six or eight sided cages, rings, pits and even moats, MMA can pretty much contested anywhere. For a gentlemanly Street MMA round of fisticuffs, the surface can be wherever your heart takes you. Keep your hands up at all times, lead with
Props to the dude who started this 20 on 20 team scrap with a running drop kick. There is no better way to start a wild team street fight than to hit them with that drop kick, Marty Jannetty. From the outdoor woodlands of Europe here is a 40 man Street MMA brawl that looks
During UFC Ottawa last week, truck racing caused a mix-up in what channel the fight was going to be on. Unbeknownst to those at home, this actually caused a riff in our timeline. It’s very complicated stuff, it has to do with electrons and satellites, but somehow the MMA world has leached over into the
That’s his daughter. Don’t talk shit to his daughter. Sometimes in Street MMA there is need for good officiating, but in this case it may have just been better to sit on the sidelines and let this female jiu-jitsu scrap play itself out. Don’t you ever talk to me or my daughter again. While a
If you swing at the king you best not miss. Or in this case if you drunkenly swing at a man 100 pounds heavier than you don’t hit nothing but the Tennessee night air. Also, in Street MMA alcohol will never be a performance enhancer. From outside a bar in Tennessee we have what looks
There’s a storm coming, Middle Easy readers. You better batten down the hatches, because when it hits you’re all gonna’ wonder why a soccer game could become a city-wide warzone. Evidently, a mix of booze, rivalry and footy is all English and Russian soccer fans needed turn everything into hell. We could write an entire
Before anyone with a GoPro could become a YouTube “celebrity” Kimbo Slice was The YouTube Celebrity. Way back in 2003 the Internet was a different slower non-high definition beast. 13 years after his first Miami backyard street fight popped up on YouTube and or the adult website SublimeDirectory (……..), Kevin Ferguson the man passed away
There is no better soundtrack to a ten-man Street MMA brawl then the ice cream man trying to deliver frozen treats to the ankle bitters of the neighborhood. Who wants ice cream bars after one round of Street MMA? Brawls like this should not be fought on an empty stomach. The five on five fight
Firas Zahabi is one of the greatest minds in MMA. One day, there is going to be a badass documentary about the cerebral MMA coaching wizards of all your top fighters and Zahabi will be in it. Who wouldn’t want to see the man behind GSP and Rory MacDonald’s curtains? Until that happens, let’s enjoy
Matt Brown can’t catch a damn break. Not only does he get assaulted by multiple fans during his UFC 198 walkout, but he got jumped outside his hotel room at the UFC host hotel in Brazil. Hell, Brown took more punches before and after his match with Demian Maia than he did in it! This
The most bro-dog thing you could ever do is get into a fight on the infield of the Kentucky Derby while wearing a bow tie. Who knows the origins of this impromptu act of Kentucky Derby MMA but the guy in a bow tie and suit jacket two-piece combo went from a 5 on 1