MMA, But Make It Medieval: It's Pretty Much Exactly What It Sounds Like
"OK, so hear me out..." some pitch guy somewhere must have said.
"You know MMA? The raw, bloody, knuckle to knuckle, sweaty totally NOT armored fighting that everyone loves?"
"What if...we added armor. Medieval armor!"
It's hard to believe that'd make it off the elevator but apparently it did, and that leaves us with AMMA, the armored medieval cage fighting events that we first learned about from our friends at Secret Chicago, as we here in the Windy City will soon be blessed with their presence.
It's either a really weird concept, or, if you really think about it, one that's already pretty covered by your local renaissance fair and the jousts. Either way, it seems like their meme game is fire, and we'd not say "Nay" to some tickets to see that action.
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Honestly, watching dudes in full heavy steel armor wail on each other is wild. It is like regular cage fighting took a massive time warp back to a castle siege. If you thought regular striking was intense, seeing someone get tackled while wearing a helmet looks exhausting. Honestly, I would love to see how fighters trained in Korean MMA would adapt to wearing fifty pounds of steel plates while trying to throw kicks and execute takedowns. It totally changes the grappling game since normal submissions are way harder. Such a crazy concept!