5-on-5 Team MMA Fighting!! Yes, really! (video)

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For those who find normal MMA dull, here is some five-on-five action that should get that heart pumping. Also, see a doctor, because your need for more action is a little disconcerting.

Middle Easy's Zeus spotted this video, thanks to a tip from Twitter user Phuket Top Team, featuring a cavalcade of awesome.

The YouTube description from Team Fighting Championship has a bit more detail on the advent of team-building exercises that now feature fists to faces:

“This is a 4 minutes video of the Fight 1 of the TFC Event 1 LPH (Poznan, Poland) vs Wisemen (Gothenburg, Sweden). The 15 minutes video is already available on our site www.teamsfight.com for registered users.

”They go on to say that they will continue to upload more snippets to YouTube in the coming weeks, so consider this an aperitif to get you hungry for more melee action.

We all love MMA, but we simply have to ask when considering a sports spin-off that seems aimed at ADD fans who just found the usual fisticuffs boring: Were you not entertained? Well, I guess you weren't, because this confined MMA riot is now a thing.

Most of you may have the same reaction to the video as comedian and MMA color commentator Joe Rogan, who had some NSFW thoughts on the video via Twitter, stating simply, "Team fighting? That's [expletive] nuts."

Indeed, it is nuts, especially considering what YouTube commenters spotted, which was the discrepancy in the team's sizes.

As you see in the video, the fight begins with a clash of kicks and punches and devolves into fighters trying to stave off attacks from their backs. However, we never quite get to see any grappling, because as one fighter submits, it opens up the ability for the other team to double-, triple- and quadruple-team an opponent.

It's like an avalanche of aggression toppling over the opposing side, and it's swift.

If this fight was any indication, bouts might take all of a few minutes to conclude, giving MMA fans a brawl with a ton to see and limited time to savor the images.

Essentially, it's what you all might order on a wish list in 2014.

Of course, there is stuff that needs to be worked out here and there, and this is just a slice of a much larger presentation.

      

What the shit is this?!

So it's basicly a bar fight between two groups of dudes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but since the rules are that when a fighter wins his respective fight he gets to stay in there and help out his teammates, isn't the match more or less over with once one fighter is eliminated? I mean, at that point it just devolves further and further into an old fashioned gang beatdown.



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1000% agree with you. plus maybe im wrong but are there no weight classes either? Most of the guys on team Sweden looked like 170 pound fighters with maybe one or two of them maybe 185. while all the Germans looked like lhw and hw fighters to me. I may be wrong but there was a definite size difference it seemed.

Yeah I noticed that, too. It looked like a team of LHWs vs a team of WWs.

And wouldn't it be more effective from a technical standpoint if the fighters strategically moved into position against each other and maybe had some kind of team gameplan instead of every single fighter on both teams just running full speed into flying kicks and tackles as soon as the ref says "fight"?

this may be the greatest thing i have ever watched... its like every bar in my neighborhood on a friday night at 3 am...

This might be the dumbest thing I've ever watched.......