From the gladiatorial bouts of the Roman empire to the often-lethal violence of early American Football and on to the present-day phenomenon that is mixed martial arts fighting, our appetite for violent contest has drawn huge crowds to the Colosseum and the octagon alike.
One glance at modern entertainment shows you that we have not. You could say it’s the ultimate form of competition-that all other forms of contest are just more-or-less refined versions of physical combat.Īfter thousands of years, you’d think people might have tired of watching fights. Fighting Games Humankind and Physical Contestsįighting has been around for as long as there have been people on the Earth.
