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These glitches will make you want to play UFC, probably not for the right reasons

Chris Plante
Chris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 and is now editor-in-chief. He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course.

EA Sports UFC is now available, and though our review is still in the works, we do have a special video to show you.

The introduction to this YouTube video by user Tommy Toe Hold claims these glitches are uncommon. I wish that weren’t true. I wish that a switch in the options menu allowed for a Glitch Fighting mode. The result would be like a modern Midway sports game, which is to say refreshing and fantastic.

Watching these realistic fighters gleefully flop about the ring has me wondering, whatever happened to arcade-style sports games?

Once you’ve watched the video, be sure to visit our sister site SB Nation. They’ve turned some of the video’s best moments into GIFs.