Videos: ‘Dawg Fight’ Trailer, King Mo Got Daddy Issues

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We haven’t thought much about bare-knuckle backyard brawlin’ since Kimbo Slice stepped up to the big leagues. Yet the Miami yard-fighting scene appears to be flourishing, with a new ringleader named DADA. Above is the trailer for Dawg Fights, a documentary from the creators of Cocaine Cowboys that takes a look at unregulated ghetto-vale-tudo. Aside from one rear-naked-choke attempt, you’re not going to find much technique in the fight clips, but it’s not really about that. Can wild haymakers in a 12-foot-square ring heal a hurting nation?

Below: In part two of “The Year of the Mo,” Muhammed Lawal explains that his fighting urge comes primarily from a childhood that one could politely describe as “s**tty.” Lawal, now 4-0 in Sengoku, will unfortunately be out of action for about three months while he rehabs a torn ACL.

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About Dawg Fight

Dawg Fight, the documentary previewed here, was eventually released in 2015. Directed by Billy Corben, it followed the backyard fighting scene in Miami run by Dhafir “Dada 5000” Harris, the same scene that produced Kimbo Slice. Dada 5000 later fought Kimbo in Bellator in 2016.