Much like traditional MMA, with every fight in Street MMA, combatants become more versatile and comfortable in combat. Experience is everything. Some travel from bar to nightclub just to hone their skills. Muay Thai instructors love street MMA practitioners; particularly those who introduce themselves, then clarify that they have a lengthy and victorious background in
If Marie Antoinette was Vietnamese, she would have said ‘Let them eat pho!‘ Alright, that’s it for me tonight — you’ve been a great audience. Actually, Marie Antoinette never uttered that phrase. The statement actually appeared in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Confessions,’ which is actually an alteration of an old Chinese anecdote: ‘An ancient Chinese emperor
A fighter needs to learn from their mistakes, and confront them head on; honestly and objectively. This is why so many fighters keep diaries, or document their training with video blogs or other stuff like that. We have much respect for fighters that are willing to look at themselves in the mirror and say ‘I
It’s OK to corner your fighter with technical advice from the sidelines of street MMA. There are countless examples of people offering combatants valuable advice from a distance. However, when you’re right up in the action, you essentially forfeit your position as a moderator or referee and assume the role of hype-man which is 100%
Deathclutch may be disbanded with the retirement of Brock Lesnar and Cole Konrad, but that doesn’t mean it can’t live on in hypothetical recruitment scenarios featured in a Street MMA lesson. What exactly is the lesson here, you ask? Don’t get taken down like like a Cole Konrad or Brock Lesnar opponent. It’s a simple
Black and white dualism is prevalent throughout literature, from The Bible to that book about bondage that started out as fan fiction. You see it everywhere, black magic being damaging, white magic being healing, good Vs. evil, Lost, Backgammon, Ingmar Bergman…It was only a matter of time before a Lesson in Street MMA would feature
Just because our MMA is of the street variety does not mean we are reduced to savages. Honor. Bushido spirit. Street MMA combatants have it, sometimes. They know that after knocking out their foe with a single punch they will have the responsibility of dragging their opponent’s limp body from the arena and into the
I’ve been fasting all day because my car is out of gas. It’s not religious, it’s economical. It’s not a good way to end Yom Kippur — a religious holiday that I don’t even celebrate. I’m sure there’s a Brazilian equivalent to this holiday, only there would be much more gratuitous butt showing. ‘Obrigado’ is
Back in the days when the youth armed rolls of quarters like AK-47s in Palestine, there was a little coin-op arcade game called ‘Pitfighter.’ For some out there, you can rekindle found memories of repeatedly slamming your palm to execute a two-button combo only to be knocked out by a dude named ‘Buzz’ with some
I’ve only witnessed a single instance of Street MMA that was won in pajama pants. It was my senior year of highschool and the unnamed subject defeated the ‘best’ street fighter I ever knew. But this pajama pants wearing dude was a caliber of athlete that ended up a Jackson fighter, and he started out
When the Kool-Aid man breaks through a wall in a commercial, all the kids start cheering. Imagine a seven-foot pitcher full of Kool-Aid breaking through your house screaming ‘Oh yeah!’ — it’s a horrifying thought. He might spill over and get some of himself on the carpet. The worst thing is, you can’t do anything
Ah, Street MMA. A testament to men (and women) who fight for pride, ego and sometimes no discernible reason outside of alcohol-fueled bravado, but the bottom line is that they fight. The vast majority of Street MMA matches materialize without any time to prepare, with the production company scurrying and announcers swallowing pure honey to
How is it that the confident man (said in a Wallid Ismail accent) in Street MMA bouts is almost always the one to get blasted upside the skull and KTFO? Confidence is important in a fight, but if Street MMA has taught us any lesson, it’s that sticking out your chest and chin and keeping
Poking someone on Facebook means that you’re in immediate need of intimacy and the person you’re poking is your first choice. Alternatively, it could mean that you haven’t spoken to someone in a long time, and you just want to remind him/her that you’re thinking about them. Growing up, phone calls accomplished the same thing
We deserve some first round KO action after UFC 149, wouldn’t you agree? Luckily for us, Knockoutfootage came to save the day with this fair, balanced and surprisingly high level Street MMA bout for us all to enjoy. The astute Street MMA observer will notice jackets piled neatly on a tree in the background above
Roger Huerta is the godfather of ‘A lesson in street MMA’. In fact, unless your name is Roger Huerta, getting into a fight outside of a nightclub is silly and should be avoided at all costs. If you use Google’s infinite library of videos depicting bouncers and their altercations with rowdy patrons, you’ll find a