Real life Mortal Combat!

[Gillvane]

A new fighting competition similar to UFC only with carbon fiber armor and real weapons. They may hold the first competition later this year.



http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/unified-weapons-master-future-fighting/

 

[reygun]

LARPing 2.0

 

[Grug]

Bizarre. I really appreciate the motivation behind them pursuing this. But from those samples of fighting, it's a bit hard to seriously in the same way you can for most combat sports.

 

[Gillvane]

Bizarre. I really appreciate the motivation behind them pursuing this. But from those samples of fighting, it's a bit hard to seriously in the same way you can for most combat sports.

Well if they perfected it you'd see a red health bar going down as computers calculated teh hits, how hard, how fast, what vital areas. And then people in Vegas would bet on it, and I'm thinking the gear would probably be a bit more colorful in the final version. So betting on you favorite gladiator might be kinda fun.