Video: Watch A 5 On 5 Bareknuckle Cage Fight

Poland is really setting the bar ridiculously high when it comes to freakshow fights.

Regular mixed martial arts just not doing it for you these days? Tired of promotions thinking they can just hold fights in a triangle to get that wow factor back? Then maybe 5 on 5 bareknuckle MMA is for you!

Or maybe it’s not, and you’re just here because you couldn’t resist looking at the car crash that was the 5 on 5 fight that went down in Poland at ‘The War 3.’ It was a battle between Team Warriors and Team Demons, with the Demons coming out on top after just a minute of mayhem.

Watch the video here:

There’s a lot going on there, so you might not have noticed this poor fellow in the corner getting less protection than he would in a Herb Dean fight:

Don’t worry too much, they’re okay! Here’s Team Warriors after the defeat, covered in blood and taped up but otherwise in good spirits.

This fight was advertised as the first 5 on 5 bareknuckle fight in history, but it certainly wasn’t the first 5 on 5 fight in general. We’re over three decades into this mixed martial arts business so any stupid half baked idea you can think of has probably been done by now, if not in America then South America, and if not in South America then Eastern Europe. Or Thailand, now that Full Metal Dojo is around.

You don’t have to look too deep to discover that there was a full on 5 on 5 MMA promotion in Poland that started in 2014 and lasted a couple of seasons.

Honestly, five on five is just too many. We prefer our freakshow MMA to occur two on two at most, and in a giant foam adventure park like Russia’s Hip Show was:

The War 3 is available in full at PlayLive.Net and features “an 8-person men’s K-1 tournament, a 4-person women’s boxing tournament, a 3vs3 team tournament final and, for the first time in history, a 5vs5 team fight with bare fists.”