Chessboxing?

A new "sport" featured on the front page of ESPN.com...interesting.

The rules of chessboxing (from article) are such:

Two competitors face each other in 11 alternating rounds, six of chess, five of boxing. A bout begins with chess, which is played on a board placed directly in the middle of the ring. Each round of chess lasts four minutes. After each chess round, the bell sounds, and workmen remove the chessboard for a two-minute round of boxing, the gloves go back on, the punching recommences. Participants win by way of knockout, checkmate, referee's decision, or if his opponent exceeds the allotted total of 12 minutes for an entire match on the chessboard. Those are the basics, but they do little to answer the overriding question: Why?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=chessboxing

 

Why? Because life is not interesting enough without combining existing sports.

I can't wait to see the World Series of Poker and Lumberjack Games. Pokerjack! Lumberpoke!

 

And the world just keeps getting dumber and dumber.

 

Is it a SportsJournalists.com rule that every 4 months we have to have a chessboxing thread?

 

Aw jeez. Now the fight is really going to be on.

"The rest of the world loves chessboxing. If you don't it's because you're an ugly, stupid American."

 

Could this be a video game where the pawns beat the shit out of each other in an attempt to kill the King and rape the Queen?

 

Disco Stu says he only watches naked chessboxing with ninja women.

 

Disco Stu doesn't advertise.

 

My eyes are going bad. I thought the title was cheeseboxing.

That would at least give us some great nicknames, like "The Provolone Pummler."

 

Don't feel back Freelance. I thought the same thing.

The Gorgonzola Gouger!

 

The Gouda Goon!

 

The American Annihilator!