Best Fight Ever/Worst Fight Ever is based on two YouTube videos with film clips uploaded under the title “Best Fight Scene of all Time” and “Worst Fight Scene Ever.” The first features a virtuously cut and choreographed 3:17 minute fight scene from the martial arts film Undefeatable (Hong Kong, 1993), while the second shows Captain Kirk fighting a lizard alien with painstakingly bad choreography and stunts from Star Trek (S01 E18, USA, 1967). Both videos have over eleven million views to date. Jason Huff took the videos and scripted them down to three-second clips to have them described in writing by thirty-eight and sixty-five Amazon Mechanical Turk workers, respectively. The resulting two sets of descriptions of body movements, though split and isolated by outsourcing, still reveal the fight scenes as step-by- step choreographies.

The book features two front covers—one on each side—each showing a still from the beginning of the video. It can be flipped to read the respective film description, with the texts meeting about a third of the way through the book due to the different lengths of the clips. What’s in the back and what’s in the front can be determined by the print-on-demand manufacturer’s production code.

Even though the book title begins with the words “Best Fight Ever,” the book does not: this inversion of the videos shows them as interchangeable; after all, both are descriptions of the same scene: “two men are fighting” (Jason Huff, Best Fight Ever, 9). The fact that the print-on-demand printer—for whatever reason—inserted a few blank pages at the end somewhat destroys the concept. In addition, a blank double page crept into our copy between pages 55 and 56.