Bloody Elbow · Jul 22, 2021
Fight Archives: Streetbeefs and the evolution of matchmaking
If you haven’t heard about Street Beefs yet, now’s the time to orient yourself.I was actually supposed to write up a throwback piece on Darren Elkins’ epic UFC 209 comeback against Mirsad Bektic. But as you can see, my YouTube homepage had other plans for me.
So what the hell are you watching, exactly? For the uninformed, Streetbeefs is a brainchild of Chris “Scarface” Wilmore, a known undesirable from Harrisonburg, VA who turned his life around after spending a few years in and out of jail. He came up with the idea in 2008 as part of his “Guns Down, Gloves Up” crusade after a friend of his was shot to death in a dispute over a woman.