TIMES FIGHT KNIGHT
A few years back, we started seeing outlandishly violent YouTube videos that showed Russians engaging in “medieval combat” while wearing armor and bashing each other mercilessly with broadswords. While an eye-catching curiosity, this martial pursuit seemed unlikely to ever catch on in the West.
That conclusion was a bit premature.
A series called Knight Fight has come to prime-time television courtesy of the History channel. Every week, it shows fighters wearing 70 pounds of period-authentic steel while engaging in wild melees that look part Renaissance faire and part prison riot.
This new development is not just a one-off gimmick made for television, either. competitors primarily come from the Armored Combat League, an organization with dozens of North American
