Medieval Combat MMA Is Amazing


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Two men go into the ring wearing medieval plate armor and blunted swords. Then they try to beat each other into submission. It's full contact with full steel.

This is Knight Fighting, a sport within the Russian M-1 Global mixed martial arts league. It's emerging in the US, too. USA Knights promotes the sport here.

But the Russians are leading the sport internationally. So to compete, we Americans really need to start training a large pool of fighters--perhaps only 1% of whom will be natural champions--from elementary school on. Make it a school sponsored sport, like volleyball and track.

-via Geek Tyrant


Wow, just wow. It's a tragedy/lawsuit waiting to happen. Blunted swords or not, those things can be deadly. What if they manage to gouge someone's eyes out with a sword through the eye holes? Or what if they lop off the ears of the poor referee as he was trying to disentangle the fighters? Yikes!

And didn't we see this in the Cable Guy?
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I'm surprised the ref doesn't even have a big stick to carry. That's how marshals in the SCA handle fighters. You need to be able to get their attention without putting your squishy skull in swinging range. As it happens, there is already a big pool of trained swordfighters here, and some of them are natural champions who would kick ass at this.
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There are several groups in the USA that do steel fighting now. We have competed internationally for the past 4 years. I am one of the women fighters, we have been allowed to compete since 2014. The M1 fights are prize pro-fights and the first one that we were involved in was with Sergei Ukolov vs. Craig Michael Ivey, one of our champion fighters. Its a HUGE learning curve over SCA, and many of us started that way. It takes a lot out of you and I promise its the longest 3 minutes of your life lol. If you want to see some of the bigger fights search Battle of the Nations (BOTN) and International Medieval Combat Federation (IMCF). The USA has had teams in both World Championships.
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