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Fight! Fight! Fight!
Posted by Nige Tassell on 1 July 2008 - 12:18pm.
Amy Winehouse's minor scuffle with the Glastonbury front row at the weekend set me thinking about great fights/skirmishes/fisticuffs there have been over the years involving the great and the good. Bjork's undignified arrival at Bangkok Airport is at the front of the queue, but what other cracking scraps can you Worders recall? (Best if there's some online footage so we can compare and contrast.)
I'll land the first punch with this extraordinary clip of Rip Torn and Norman Mailer getting down and dirty on-set in 1970. Warning for the squeamish: neither is playing by the Queensbury Rules. Teeth and a hammer are involved. And there's blood.
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Shakin' "Emu" Stevens vs. Richard "Parky" Madeley
Since it's topical, I might as well repost this. Not a fight, because Madeley tries to be all cool and matey.
And here's the "You broke my effin' sitar" fight scene from "Dig!" featuring members of the Brian Jonestown Massacre:
Blood! From people's faces!
Here's one...
Whatever your opinion of
Whatever your opinion of John Prescott is, you can't deny that this is one of the finest left jabs ever committed to film.
I'd have lamped that smug git as well - even more satisfying when you see him shout 'Have that!' in the slow mo, mere milliseconds before Prescott's fist connects with his chin.
I'm in your camp
With a mullet like that a good shoeing was the least he deserved.
Gav & Stace
And after all, Prescott had ben dumped by Nessa the previous day. Nessa knew that punch was meant for her.
Funnily enough
I was just watching this one last night:
Snoop Dogg vs Emu on The Word... See how Rod Hull goes in for the kill on the unsuspecting rapper, the camera cuts away and when it comes back to a wide shot Rod and Emu have been very firmly floored.