Across America, in front of crowds of thousands, men and women are dressing up as knights from the Middle Ages and fighting one another. The weapons, violence, and chivalry are all real.

This is the world of modern medieval battle, a human demolition derby ... 19 pandemic and a hunger for ever more full-body contact sports. “Two common threads run through those who do this ...

“Are you ready for a medieval rumble?” shouts an announcer in a black kilt and leather boots. Spectators scream back, and play begins, steel striking steel hard, combatants hitting the ground ...

It thrillingly takes medieval hand-to-hand combat off the jousting ... competing in a free market benefits both viewers and sports trying to attract new audiences. Restricting competition ...

This combat sports league represents a return to medieval brutality and bills itself as the ‘Medieval Cage Fighting Championship’ where the athletes dress up like knights and use actual ...

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It does, however, require a suit of armor. A group from the Portland area is taking the sport of medieval armored combat by storm, and they just took home the world championships in Europe this ...

Performers at Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament in New Jersey have voted to form the first union in the company’s 40-year history. The knights, squires, stunt performers and stable hands who ...

“Medieval combat meets modern MMA,” goes the ... a forty-five-hundred-capacity sports arena with a long history of hosting WWE, roller derby, and collegiate basketball. Carl Sandburg dubbed ...