There aren’t many people that leave the house during the day or at night that intend to get into a street fight but high schoolers are an entirely different story. Oftentimes, physical altercations are not only a common occurrence but are planned and orchestrated…which of course means that they are inevitably videotaped.

Well, neither www.mixedmartialarts.com nor myself promote street fighting or physical acts of violence in any form or fashion but there are those times when street fights happen and a further discussion of what exactly defines a street fight seems to be necessary, especially after watching the video below.

Below we see two gentleman, presumably high school age kids or young adults, engage in a physical altercation in what can aptly be described as a street fight. Now a street fight is just that: a fight in the street; and it needs to be said that a fight is a fight. There are no rule sets or referees when it comes to a fight in the streets. This is the reason that it is called a fight and combat sports such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, and mixed martial arts are called sports.

The difference is that a sport is a contest held within a parameter of rules that are enforced by a governing body and include a person to ensure that specific rules and regulations are followed; if they are not followed there are consequences. Below we see a fight, not a sport or a contest, apparently one of the contestants didn’t get the memo; he proceeds to complain and then promptly pay the consequences. So check out the video below to see what happens when a participant in a street fight expects rules.

Jacob C. Stevens is a lifelong athlete and cerebral martial arts enthusiast who is also skilled in the art of linguistic manipulation, his published work, Afterthoughts and Handgrenades, can be found here…