WTF (What The Fight?!)
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WTF: Dambé beach fight ends with sensational clubbing knockout
More action from the periphery coming at you this week with another entry in the What The Fight? collection this week. We’re mostly going to go back to some classics and work with some highlight packages, but there’s plenty of recent fisticuffs as well. So we’ll start with knuckle sandwiches.…
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WTF? Lethwei fighter headbutts then yeets opponent out of the ring
After an exhausting week packed with quality MMA action, we’re back to the fringes with more of the wild, weird, and sometimes impractical. And we begin with Fight Commentary Breakdowns, with a Bajiquan fighter sparring with a kickboxer. This is a fun one to watch, plenty of back and forth…
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WTF? Watch what happens when three Wing Chun fighters try to fight kickboxers
As usual, we start with Jerry again! Fight Commentary Breakdowns returns to the bread-and-butter format of traditional martial artists taking on different challenges, and this week we’ve got three separate Wing Chun practitioners going up against kickboxers and Sanda specialists. It does not go well for Team Wing Chun: The…
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WTF?! Watch Kung Fu vs MMA, Mantis and White Crane vs kickboxing, Dambe shockers
While we wait for some of the more dynamic and explosive MMA events to come through, why not wet your beak over here? It’s another dollop of insane combat content that’s tangentially related to MMA, and we’ve got some good ones for you today. We begin with the standard, a…
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WTF: Double superman slap? Watch Indian slap wrestling, bare knuckle MMA, Dambe, more
I am once again asking that you show some love to our guy Jerry at Fight Commentary Breakdowns. If you’re a sucker for all kinds of absurd and non-effective martial arts quackery, he’s got a lovely spread for you to gorge on. My personal favorites are usually knife defense segments,…
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WTF? Dambe double duty, TKD in kickboxing, Indian wrestling and Russian bare knuckle
When we started publishing these features, we never really intended for most of the action to be the usual thing we see in pro MMA. Good technique, fighters putting on tactical and well-coordinated performances? Nah, we didn’t want that to take the lead with this. But this week, it’s kind…
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WTF? Jeet Kune Do mishaps and refs in bullet-proof vests
Time for your Weird Wednesday fix, and we’ve got plenty to plug right into your veins this week. As sommeliers of the obscure and less-organized forms of hand to hand combat, we focus a lot on things that exist on the periphery of mainstream combat sports here, but today we’re…
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WTF? Jaw-dropping KOs, inter-style gym fights and sumo highlights
Welcome back, kids. This week, we’re gonna get right into it with more oddities and fringe items from the periphery of combat sports. And it all starts with our usual opening, an offering from our buddy Jerry over at Fight Commentary Breakdowns. This one’s interesting as it’s listed as a…
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WTF? Female boxer styles on two Kung Fu fighters, South Africa slaps, dazed Dambe, and more
You may have heard of Gold Dust Woman, but today we’re going to get acquainted with Iron Fist Woman. Fight Commentary Breakdowns did it again with some analysis of a Chinese boxer that took on two male Kung Fu fighters in sparring sessions, and she is a problem. And yes,…
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WTF? ‘Elite level’ match-making leads to guy with big belly getting smashed (video)
New month, new shenanigans afoot in the global violence game. We’re back this week with more oddities and surprises from around the world, and it hasn’t gotten any less strange. But at least with some of these, the level of technique has improved drastically. Fight Commentary Breakdowns delivers this gem…