The History of Fighting

George S. Patton (right) and Jean de Mas Latrie competing in the fencing event of the Modern Pentathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

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The image above was engraved by Thomas Hodgson and depicts a jousting match from the Eglinton Tournament of 1839, a re-enactment of a medieval joust held in Scotland. It was funded and organized by Archibald, Earl of Eglinton whose opponent in the image is Richard Lechemere, the "Knight of the Red Rose".

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Happy New Year

"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew."

~ Aberjhani ~

Insane Fitness Training. 

A couple of young boys practising boxing.

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American kickboxer Rick Roufus vs. Muay Thai fighter Changpuek Kietsongrit in a non-title fight in Las Vegas in the late 1970s. Prior to this fight, muay thai was relatively unknown outside of Thailand, but when Changpuek beat the American, he put the sport on the international map. 

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