Dangerous Backyard MMA Fighting

In this disturbing video clip seen below (viewer discretion is advised, graphic content!) you can see two teenagers in Brazil doing some sort of mixed martial arts type fight.

The tragic result is that one of the boys was choked to death as the other person held the choke on for far too long. The original video clip goes on much longer than this and the fatal neck hold is maintained for a minute or more (!)

The offender here is either well aware of what he's doing and is a cold blooded murderer. Either that, or he's unaware of the dangers. In either case, it's a sad example of why any sort of martial arts training of any type - MMA style fighting like this in particular - needs to be done under proper supervision by a skilled and experienced instructor.

Another sad side to the above tragedy is that it isn't really that hard to escape a headlock as it is done here; you just have to train for it. If you don't know how, it's an extremely dangerous attack.

Underground MMA fighting - Illustration from Flickr.com