Human beings are innately inventive. Someone invented the wheel around 5,000 years ago, and now the world has an automobile that can break the speed of sound.

Human beings have an inherent drive to see who can beat who in a physical fight. Thus was MMA born, from our DNA.

Unfortunately, human beings – many of them – are also naturally stupid. When something world-changing comes along, they take it in a stupid direction.

And thus Trash MMA was born. There are a wide number of entries in this Trash MMA Hall of Fame.

There is MMA while wearing lingerie.

There is soccer hooliganism packaged as “Team MMA.”

There is three man MMA.

There is MMA while arm wrestling.

There is midget MMA. Even the term is pejorative. There is of course nothing wrong with someone of unusually short stature to compete in MMA. But turning it into a spectacle is trash.

There is Two on Two MMA.

“In our opinion, it’s actually safer than a one-on-one fight,” declared promoter Chance Farrar. “There’s no elevated risk to the fighters. There’s no blow that they could sustain in a two-on-two that they couldn’t sustain in a one-on-one.”

For the record, Farrar is a highly respected fighter, coach, and LEO. But 2 on 2 MMA was trash.

Footbrawl combined aspect of soccer and rugby, while dressed for a WTF Taekwondo match, with submissions, and stuff. It’s trash.

One of the more egregious Trash MMA attempts was Shock Fights. That’s MMA with a Taser in the glove.

“You start with a 2 fighters in a ring,” explains founder/president Michael Alexander. “And that’s where the similarities between Shockfights and any other combat sports end. There are no judges, skill levels, weight classes, or rules; it’s just you, an opponent, and 3,000,000 volt tasers strapped to each hand.”

We felt it was a natural progression. Boxing begat wrestling, wrestling begat the MMA, and the next step in extreme fighting would be to put true warriors in a ring, against each other with three million volts of electricity charging out. Winner takes all.

Anybody who has the balls, and a d— big enough can step inside and do this. Let me tell you, If any of you out there right now want to come in and join Shockfights, we’re willing to have you. Just leave your fear at home and leave any notions of safety behind. But if you want to join Shockfights, we want you. Black, White, Hispanic, or Chinese, Asian, it doesn’t matter. Bring it on!”