Fun fact: three of the stories we’ve posted in the past two days have been from Shenzhen. It’s where Alicia and I happened to be this weekend (for Ultimate Frisbee), and on Sunday we attempted to fly back. Attempted and succeeded — but barely. A separate Shenzhen-to-Beijing airline ended up being delayed until 2 am, while our flight was only set back two hours, to 11 pm. (To the best of my knowledge, it was ...

It’s 8:40 pm on a Friday. We’re lined up at the China Eastern Airlines counter a full ninety minutes before takeoff, and I have everything I need for a great, just-quit-work weekend: passport, check; cleats, check; Frisbee, check; baijiu-Fanta mix, check. But just then, China decides to remind me where I am. Ahead of us in line, an argument begins to stew, froth, and bubble. The verbal combatants are an eld ...

Guijie, the prominent dining street on Dongzhimen Inner Street in Beijing, was the scene of a terrifying brawl on Sunday around 5:30 pm, according to the description on the above video, recently uploaded by Ai Weiwei. There are scant details, but the description also says the fight was between Han Chinese and Tibetan street peddlers/stall-keepers. There are lots of projectiles. ...

Here is 3 minutes, 17 seconds of two men getting the shit kicked out of them. Right here, the epitome of the expression "beaten within an inch of one's life." It's brutal and vicious -- and then the concrete blocks come out. The two men lying prone on the ground were apparently thieves, but quoting the top commenter on the Youku video -- "Even beatings have a limit, it's not worth beating them to death." We ...

On Friday, street enforcement officers of Huangshi, Hubei province entered a convenience store and began confiscating goods -- it's what chengguan do -- but before they could finish, local townsfolk decided they'd seen enough. In the ensuing scuffle, chengguan were subject to verbal abuse, followed by phsyical contact. It wasn't pretty for anyone, as you can see. ...

Three separate incidents involving underaged fighters drew a collective 93,000 views on Youku this week. Check out the last video, in which rocks are introduced by a third party and the combatants, as if in Hunger Games, momentarily ponder whether they want this escalation. ...

The first fight, between the ladies, is in Bengbu, Anhui province. The second one happens in Hong Kong. Zou Shiming would not be proud. ...

A woman was stripped and beaten in public on Sunday morning in Lanzhou, Gansu province, just outside her residential compound, with her four-year-old daughter present. She was jumped by five women who were reportedly out to teach her a lesson for committing adultery. Hug China has the story: ...

No information available on this one, and none necessary, really. A woman on a scooter trying to run a red light gets clipped by another scooter, and then a fight breaks out. He tries to kick her in the head a la CM Punk, while she goes for the small package, i.e. inside cradle. More mixed gender tussling ensues, like we're back in the Attitude Era. Good times. ...

“Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.” --Richard Price, The Wanderers ...

What happens when you're a pickpocket and you get caught? Other than the loss of face, you're liable to get the snot kicked out of you. In Sanya, Hainan province recently, that's not what happened. We're told a pickpocket tried to rob a group of foreigners, but what happens then? A Chinese man comes out of the pack with a bag, then hightails it while everyone stands around, kind of confused. ...

You can sigh a million times, but until this country reforms its chengguan system, which allows urban management officers to lord over small business owners and street vendors with their misappropriated authority, videos like this will continue to surface. On March 9, according to China Daily, a street vendor in Gulangyu, a scenic island off Xiamen, Fujian province, was knocked to the ground and kicked by a ...

There really wasn't much information about this video we posted on February 26 purporting to depict locals and out-of-towners fighting in a land dispute in Jieyang, Guangdong province. The local village chief, Li Baoyu, was detained, but little else was known. On Saturday, the Jiexi county government finally released more information. ...

We've all seen a variation of this, the sober spouse who gets upset at the drunken significant other. Perhaps you've been a part of it. In other words: don't judge, just enjoy. This comes via Deadspin's weekly Tuesday Night Fights. ...

The fighting starts around the 45-second mark, but the build-up is almost worth it. These guys have to be drunk, right? That green bottle that shatters has to be baijiu, right? (Chinese moonshine, basically.) We don't know. And then it ends, weirdly, with both men missing a flip-flop. One guy is driven away with his shoe still on the ground. The other holds his flip-flop and shouts vulgar curses, held back ...

On the morning of February 22 in Jiexi county, Jinmian, Guangdong province, a gang of outsiders descended on a work site and began smashing cars, equipement, and, in some cases, people. The fighting got so bad that traffic was halted on one stretch of Jianmian Highway. Marvel at the scene, with the banging of brass like drums on an ancient battlefield. ...

I fought the law, and the law could not have cared less about winning. ...

Part of our series on the year that was in fun videos, fun rants, and fun posts. TOP FIGHT POSTS Did A Foreigner In Beijing Get This Public Beatdown For Attempted Rape? May 10 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqoFVim-XWQ] A Brutal, Bloody Beatdown In Sanlitun Last Week May 27 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjXVEmwr4Z0] Middle School Students Beat Up Chengguan June 13 [youtube http://www.yout ...

Scant info available on this, but it speaks for yourself. Three men pull a driver out of his car to beat him, but the man valiantly fights back. He puts one man on his back, then another, flips another dude over his back, and then goes on the offensive with flying kicks. Who is he, Ryback??? The third man, seeing that he no longer has the numbers advantage -- not that the numbers advantage helped him -- tak ...

Recently in Hong Kong, a male pedestrian fainted on the street outside a busy Jockey Club Center. Two men nearby, ages 59 and 53, witnessed the incident and tried to rouse the pedestrian. Failing that, they came to the conclusion that they should call the police, but an important question remained – which one of them should pick up the phone and dial 999? Oriental Daily continues this strange tale. ...