In one corner is thirty-seven-year-old Matt Gifford, five foot ten inches, weighing in at 185 pounds. Over his armor, he wears a red brigandine, a cloth garment studded with metal. On the other side ...

The clash of swords, axes and armor fed cheers from a crowd of several hundred. One recent weekend at the Texas Renaissance Festival, a scrum of armored knights appeared to be fighting for their lives ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Once a month, members of the Rust Knights meet at Cole Park to practice. The team is Corpus Christi’s Armored Combat Sports team. In an ACS competition, fighters go against one ...

YAMHILL, Ore. — There’s a sport that’s starting to grow across the country, but it doesn’t require a ball, club or a racket. It does, however, require a suit of armor. A group from the Portland area ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization boasts 31 nations in its ranks, millions of troops from those states, multiple arsenals of nuclear weapons and thousands of tanks. It also features knights in ...

Mary O'Mullane works as a nurse, but after hours she swaps her scrubs for armour as she trains to fight like a knight. She is among a growing number of Queensland women participating in historic ...

EVESHAM – Sean Krachun is a knight in shining armor. And he has the armor and sword — as well as a few battle scars — to prove it. The 25-year-old Marlton resident is a medieval fighter, who got into ...

“Fighters, touch tips!” master of ceremonies Mickey Gallus booms over a loudspeaker. The clunky innuendo elicits a roar from the Saturday-night crowd inside Hammond Civic Center. Violence looms, and ...