The sport was born from a 1992 French comic book and became a real thing in the early 2000s. It’s grown since then. Canty is part of Team USA, coached by Matt Thomas, the first American to win a world ...

James Canty III, a Detroit native, is the new world champion of chessboxing, a hybrid sport combining alternating rounds of speed chess and boxing.

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 ...

There are some absolutely insane “sports” for people to try these days. However, a really weird one has been in the streaming news lately and doing the rounds, thanks to Ludwig. We have all the ...

Will MacLeod, second from left, at the podium after winning a silver medal at the recently completed World Chessboxing Championship, held in Loznica, Serbia, in late September. MacLeod is a 2022 ...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> The World Chess Boxing Organization, which ...

Which would you rather do in front of a massive audience: lose a board game, or get knocked unconscious? If you’re down for either, you can always accept a chessboxing challenge. YouTuber Ludwig ...

Mumbai: In competitive sport, athletes frequently look for ways to evolve and reinvent. Siddhant Nath Jha took it several notches further. Once a budding chess player who gave up the sport briefly in ...