--- title: Watch Taylor Swift Throw Punches Training for the 'Bad Blood' Video description: There is a very good reason why Taylor Swift is throwing punches at this guy. canonical: https://time.com/3966671/taylor-swift-bad-blood-training/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-21T20:39:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:24.250Z og:title: There Is a Very Good Reason Why Taylor Swift Tried To Beat Up These Dudes og:description: There is a very good reason why Taylor Swift is throwing punches at this guy. og:url: https://time.com/3966671/taylor-swift-bad-blood-training/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta584be375ab2c7c5/69885bd02dce0177149e4b94/taylor-swift4.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Taylor Swift performs on June 24, 2015 in Manchester, England. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: There Is a Very Good Reason Why Taylor Swift Tried To Beat Up These Dudes twitter:description: There is a very good reason why Taylor Swift is throwing punches at this guy. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta584be375ab2c7c5/69885bd02dce0177149e4b94/taylor-swift4.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # There Is a Very Good Reason Why Taylor Swift Tried To Beat Up These Dudes  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Jul 21, 2015 8:39 PM CUT  Taylor Swift performs on June 24, 2015 in Manchester, England. Taylor Swift performs on June 24, 2015 in Manchester, England.Shirlaine Forrest--Getty Images  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Jul 21, 2015 8:39 PM CUT Taylor Swift’s video for “Bad Blood” set a Vevo [world record](http://time.com/3892980/bad-blood-music-video-record/ "undefined") for most views (20.1 million) in 24 hours. It sent a message that Swift is supremely gifted in the [art of reinvention](http://time.com/3882487/taylor-swift-bad-blood-video-reinvention/ "undefined"). Even Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart [want to join](http://time.com/3962150/taylor-swift-ian-mckellen-patrick-stewart/ "undefined") the squad of powerful lady superheroes she convened for the video. And today, with nine MTV Video Music Award [nominations](http://time.com/3965719/mtv-vma-2015-nominees/ "undefined") including Video of the Year, Swift’s hit song has received its due recognition. To celebrate, Swift posted a video of herself training for the music video, in which she deftly throws three opponents to the floor in rapid succession. Considering this was only Swift’s first day of training, she appears to have quite the future in mixed martial arts should she ever tire of the whole biggest-pop-star-in-the-world gig. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3966671/taylor-swift-bad-blood-training/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3966671/taylor-swift-bad-blood-training/"},"headline":"There Is a Very Good Reason Why Taylor Swift Tried To Beat Up These Dudes","datePublished":"2015-07-21T20:39:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:24.250Z","description":"It's not because they have \"bad blood\"","url":"https://time.com/3966671/taylor-swift-bad-blood-training/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","Taylor Swift","Music videos","vmas","Video Music Awards","bad blood"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta584be375ab2c7c5/69885bd02dce0177149e4b94/taylor-swift4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta584be375ab2c7c5/69885bd02dce0177149e4b94/taylor-swift4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Taylor Swift performs on June 24, 2015 in Manchester, England.","caption":"Taylor Swift performs on June 24, 2015 in Manchester, England.","creditText":"Shirlaine Forrest--Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3966671/taylor-swift-bad-blood-training/","name":"There Is a Very Good Reason Why Taylor Swift Tried To Beat Up These Dudes"}}]}] ```