10 most notorious street fights in MMA

#1 Chris Weidman's brawl at the nightclub

No, we haven’t morphed anything here

Royce Gracie’s decrying of BJJ’s effectiveness in a street fight might make you wonder if the same applies to wrestling. It does not. Just ask Chris Weidman. Now, the baby-faced former Middleweight champion might not come across as the type to start a brawl, but he unquestionably can finish one. Anderson Silva, the GOAT, snapped his shin in two on Weidman’s leg and let’s not forget what happened to (TRT-less) Vitor Belfort.

In February, Weidman penned an article narrating how his good friend and training partner, Gian Villante, mouthed off to some Neanderthals at a club. In Weidman’s own words, the 6’4”, 270 lbs “wannabe gangsters” were staring down everyone in the joint and Villante, tone shot with sarcasm, told one of them to take it easy.

The saint that he is, Villante followed the heavies out of the club to make sure they took his advice and combustion was imminent. The situation between Villante and the goons was still only at a verbal level until Weidman appeared.

The biggest of the three rushed Weidman and heaved his right hand at him but the star wrestler easily took him down. You’d expect Weidman to proceed to carpet bomb the thug’s face, but he did something legendary. Weidman started slapping the horizontal hulk and actually gave him a noogie, laughing in unison with the onlookers.

Red-faced, Weidman’s failed assailant stood up and charged at him again, only to be served heaping seconds, topped with a nose-honking. Weidman then strolled to the man’s friends, watching immobile from the safety of their car and told them to leave before he decided a real beating was apropos.

Weidman and Villante’s nights out on the town have reduced drastically since then.