Awesome Fighting

It’s martial arts man vs. small fruit-bearing tree in an epic battle of wills, as Muay Thai guy kicks the crap out of this tree that clearly did nothing to deserve this. Treehuggers, shield your eyes.

Mixing their martial arts skills with Obi-Wan quality lightsaber moves, Team2X and YouTuber GakAttack give us two great tastes that taste great together. Be sure to stay for the ending.

Corridor Digital continues to knock it out of the park with their action and effect-filled short films. Their latest clip perfectly blends the unlikely pairing of graffiti with street fighting.

The game may already be out, but that doesn’t make this 5-minute-plus CG trailer for Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 any less awesome, as it introduces all the characters, both old and new.

Ian Palmer’s Knuckle is an epic 12-year journey into the brutal and secretive world of Irish Traveler bare-knuckle fighting; the gritty film follows a history of violent feuding between rival clans.

This visceral Indonesian film follows the story of a SWAT team trapped in a gritty tenement run by a vicious mobster and his army of thugs. The US release adds music by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park.

We’ve seen all sorts of fights with all sorts of weapons, but never any so unusual (and feather-filled) as this Russian brawl, punctuated with what can only be described as Angry Birds IRL.

Dateline NBC’s Chris Hansen tells a bike shop owner who allegedly does business with bike thieves to have a bike seat over there in his candidly classic confrontational style.

Actually, we’re not quite sure what sort of fighting moves this cat is pulling off, but they’re definitely unusual. Maybe he just wanted to freak out the other cat out instead of actually taking him on.

It’s not new, but Rajinikanth is Bollywood’s answer to Chuck Norris. Watch how he takes down all the bad dudes in this hilarious fight scene without messing his sunglasses or hair up. (Thanks Steve!)

Vincent Cyr has crafted a fun video of every typical fight you’ve seen in a movie (or video game, perhaps). Also includes one liners, like “You’re not the devil, you’re practice.” (Thanks Jack!)

Seattle reporter Shomari Stone of KOMO-4 was getting set up to shoot a segment, when he witnessed a violent altercation on the other side of the lens, and steps in to break up the fight himself.

Respect this weapon: stuntman Steven Ho dropped by Conan O’Brien’s show to demo some cool fighting techniques, which means a fun behind the scenes lesson and an amusing Conan beatdown.

Need a laugh today? Check out Jeff Smith’s Glove, Actually, a rather hilarious ode to the greatest slaps of the big screen – and there are plenty of them. We love the PoC montage at 3:53.

Sure, the WWE and UFC already offer fighting games, but 505 Games and Kung Fu Factory’s unlicensed fighter offers a gritty, blood-spewing, bone-breaking take on MMA-style video games.

Square Enix is showing off its latest side-scrolling-actioner, which looks sort of like a 4-player co-op version of Strider. The game hits Playstation Store and Xbox Live Arcade later this year.

Bethesda Softworks’ co-op actioner puts you in control of either a ranged-weapons expert or a swordsman. The cover-based 3PS conjures visions of medieval Gears of War. Sweet. Ships 10/1/2010.

In this video from RoboGames 2010, we get to see robotic foes taking each other down, sparks and metal flying everywhere – in glorious 300fps slow-motion – courtesy of Casio’s EX-F1 digicam.

Namco Bandai continues to build up hype for the Xbox 360 version of Tekken 6; the trailer above is basically a fast-moving action onslaught; in other words, plenty of eye candy.

It’s not quite Street Fighter IV, but Death Vegas is a sweet flash-based fighting game with comic-book style visuals; play head to head on the same keyboard or with a joystick.