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What is it about Union Square that brings out the belligerence in people? (Anyone who’s tried to get through the Greenmarket in a hurry can probably answer that.) If it’s not thugs fighting with guns and knives, it’s hipsters fighting with pillows, activists fighting to stop a restaurant, and now this: organized combat in the spirit of Fight Club. Blogger And I Am Not Lying has a breathlessly detailed account of last week’s smackdown.
After getting a text message alerting him to the fisticuffs, he arrived on the scene to find “two shirtless guys flopping around on the ground, grunting and grating one another’s faces across the cobblestones.” There’s video on his site, but none of the face grating seems to have occurred on camera – the “action” amounts to a bunch of bros taking turns slapping each other and rolling around in front of a crowd of mildly-amused bystanders.
The rules – administered by a mysterious ringleader named “Legend” – prohibit face shots and settling scores, which is too bad because it would make the videos a lot more entertaining. But despite the drama, or perhaps because of it, And I Am Not Lying is totally hooked and has been trying to contact Legend to get in with the so-called ‘Union Square Spartans’: “Like most white guys that work in the tech industry, I’ve never won a fight. Unless you count flame-wars on Digg as fights, but everyone loses those just for being there in the first place.”
Photo courtesy Chinese Fashion.
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Men wanting to touch other men: homo-erotic behavior.
Not that there's anything wrong.
The first rule of man-boob club: Don't talk or make fun of my man-boobs. Please?
They should go down and challenge the lightsaber guys in WSP to a "nothing better to do with our time"-off.
Definitely Homo-erotic, especially fighting without shirts so they can get all sweaty and gay with each other.
John, great post. I may have laughed out loud.
These guys are just one Craigslist visit away from forming a kickball squad. Think about it, the apotheosis of homocentric hipsterdom is a mere click away.
Allow me to ask the obvious: where were the police while this was happening??? Not that I expect NY's finest to be around to stop every single run in (and these appear to be willing participants) but this is in the middle of one of the city's busiest squares. Civil society or third-world backwater?
Fellas that is quite a way to prove your manhood. Boys will be boys. Take your tomfoolery to the bedroom not Union Sq.
Union Square is a the NYU cesspool of lost losers. Wasting time and squandering their lives. Boring.
NY's finest are too busy double parking their vans and trying to figure out which bike riders need to be arrested and which are just delivery dudes.
It is homoerotic only if it turns you on. Obviously a lot of posters here were turned on.
This is not new. They were sparring there all last summer.
where is kimbo slice when you need him
im going to try and sign up for this! ftw!
#14- LAST! stfu! gtfo!
Seriously.
Loosely echoing what ribaldry said, this seems more like just another tiresome, wacked out performance piece that plagues Union Square these days.
This really is no different than the groups of footbaggers that used to hang out there or the group of losers i saw doing Capoeira 2 years ago.
I have to be drunk to even begin to bear Union Square.
maybe you and i need to have a throw down, (#15) The Edge. We can take off our shirts and fumble around on the ground until I assume the mount position and put you into a submission hold. However, if you want to stand up and fight instead of taking it to the ground, i can oblige. im sure i can take a punch on the shoulder from your emo fist. I just hope you're not hiding a razor somewhere, The Edge! It's bad enough the sweat from our skins would make us slippery enough!
FTW FTW FTW FTW FTW FTW FTW FTW
#17 - I doubt watching a couple of seasons of ultimate fighter will make you an "ultimate fighter".
Ultimate something, but certainly not fighter.
do you mean, "gay"???
maybe i am!