And so, we begin a discussion of outside-the-box competitions with the aim of categorizing each one: Real sport or just a weird activity? In our first review, we will look at a competition that ...

A new sport is slowly becoming a sensation, and it combines two pastimes that seem to be polar opposites: chessboxing. The game is exactly what it sounds like, as it combines chess and boxing to ...

A chessboard awaits the next round just outside the ring during a chessboxing match in Berlin in 2012 AP Images There’s a boxing ring planted in the middle of a London nightclub. So far, nothing too ...

There are several sports that combine multiple two disciplines, such as biathlon (cross-country skiing), nordic combined (ski jumping, cross-country skiing) and the decathlon or heptathlon in track ...

Chess boxing is the ultimate test of both brain and brawn. Two fights go back and forth between intense rounds of strategy and athleticism as they battle in a mental battle on a chess board and an ...