If you're reading this, then you are the 99%. Even if you've paid every student loan, car note and you're up-to-date on your credit card statement -- you're still the 99%. Judging from the people at the various occupy protests across the nation, that should make you angry. Very angry. Get mad. Throw around a few coffee tables and kick a couple of red bicycles over. Those items represent the establishment -- and that's what you're against. The occupy movement may even inspire you to rebel against your own fellow occupy protesters, as illustrated by this clip from Sky 5 HD. Props to Kenneth H. for the find.

In the history of MMA there has only been a few major paradigm shifts that have changed the way we view the sport. Pre/post UFC, pre/post Pride and for better or worse, pre and post Bloodstain Lane. Everything else is just a footnote. What started as an angry fan commenting on Sherdog's top ten p4p list has blossomed into one of the most infamous characters MMA has ever seen. Bloodstain has talked a lot of crap to a lot of people, but I think even his haters can appreciate him meeting one of his Twitter followers 1 v 1 in an ill lit New York street in the video below.

Learning from your mistakes is at the forefront of any successful venture.  Oftentimes, mistakes can lead to painstaking re-invention, subsequently tackling a problem anew – perhaps with vastly different results.  In today’s edition of ‘A Lesson in Street MMA”, we’re showing you what happens when you don’t re-evaluate your gameplan and do the exact same thing you did the first time. [Source]

What we have here is an open weight match at one of the larger Street MMA stadiums somewhere in the world. The crowd is massive, they are excited to see the bout and most of all, they are educated. Notice the space being given to the combatants and even the referee reset. These guys know what's up and they can't wait to see this anticipated match up. I think there is even a green MiddleEasy shirt in the crowd.

After a rough start to the match where shirts takes an incredible amount of punishment, he reminds us all that anything can happen in Street MMA, anything. While skins may have had the upper hand with the stand up, it's a whole new game on the concrete. Check it out.

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What we have here is a regulation Street MMA match in a non regulation ring-the living room. It must have been too cold to actually head out into the street or yard for this anticipated shirts vs skins fight (shirts vs skins is what you have to resort to when there is no red or blue tape on hand), so the commission pushed the couches into the corner and gave the OK to throw bungalows amidst a flat screen TV and a handsomely decorated mantle. After a quick flurry of punches and a tight guillotine by skins which leads to the shirted fellow tapping, they are inexplicably reset to their feet by the questionably licensed ref and then, well...

Thanks to KickYoNuts for the find.

What do you call Street MMA inside of a cage? A riot. Last Saturday in Flint, Michigan, an amateur MMA show broke out into a full scale riot that wasn't quite Palace at the Auburn Hills scale, but still did the trick. This further reaffirms the notion that when our world goes Mad Max after the rise of the machines, Michigan residents will be in charge. They will be cannibals and Joe Dumars will be their king. Either Joe or Matthew Stafford. It really depends on how healthy Stafford stays.

Thanks to CageReligion for bringing this to our attention.

When approached by a police officer, it's never a good idea to instigate physical acts of violence while you're in front of an audience of thousands. Apparently no one informed the guy in this video. A small portion of props must be handed out for being fearless enough to get into an altercation with two individuals holding guns, but the majority of the overall prop must be attributed to the idiotic notion that the guy in the video could take on two individuals holding guns. In mathematical terms, that would be 22% 'Baller', 88% 'Buster.' Don't worry, I've checked the math and those ratios are accurate. Now take another lesson in Street MMA and note that cops will always get the full mount. Props to RML for the find.

Promoting your fight is still a necessity in the realm of Street MMA. Your PR team is the guy holding the camera. Your audience? Whoever randomly takes a stroll on the sidewalk at that given time. It's not a complicated operation, but if there's a back story behind your fight, you will warrant an emotional response within the viewer and with this new lesson in Street MMA, it's no different. Check out another Lesson in Street MMA, and remember that no one at MiddleEasy encourages this type of activity. Not a single person. Props to MiddleEasy reader Nazty111 for the find. [Source]

Yes. Everything about this Street MMA match is perfect. Perfect, perfect, perfect. Every possible ingredient that could be added to a delicious Street MMA soup is here: Russians, high level grappling techniques, a fantastic and knowledgeable crowd that is more respectful than the average MMA audience (even getting quiet and then applauding at appropriate times) and a low sodium bouillon cube. I also have to admit I love the copious amounts of dust on them, dirt everywhere. I think this should recreated in some fashion in real MMA, like the fighter gets antiqued by his corner before he steps into the cage or something. It adds drama.

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