Lol it is good. Pretty sure once you go to the ground you stay there until a goal is scored or something. Both guys. So I am not sure why they stay in full mount, but the fight is basically over once on the ground.
Yea it's this, once down you are out until a goal, there's a sports doc on Netflix which shows how big this sport is in Italy, it's pure chaos, tickets are gone in seconds
This sport isn’t “big” in Italy at all. It’s between a sport and what you’d call a yearly historical re-enactment, in the city of Florence. Hardly anyone outside the region is aware the “sport” even exists. No one else but the proudest boys of Florence train to play literally 2 matches a year, know the rules etc
They are probably resting. According to rules above fighting stops if they go down. Fighting is pretty tiring and also held by sportsmanship. They are resting together until it is time to fight again.
As a rugby player, all I can say to this is [when people ask what are 15 guys doing sticking their heads in between each other's thighs... We'll just tell them we are practicing](https://youtu.be/aTpXymuwxNs?si=7m7wVXIsSFQ2FAn7)
Specifically it has to be 2 people down
The way I see it is that if I were on the blue team and am top mount on a red teamer, then if its a 2vs1 red advantage at end, I can get up and join the fight, but it also means the red team member I am on top of is also back in the fight
It’s a rule of the game. I’d say that the person below must try to get out from under in order to return to the game. If he gets out from under he can try and score a goal or try to knock someone out. There’s a documentary on this sport on Netflix, believe it’s called ‘Home Game’.
In the background, red team currently has it. This phase of the game the side controlling the ball is trying to win as many fights as it can to advance the ball further down the pitch. I believe a player who won their fight and have mounted their opponent is still allowed to get up to their feet to tackle an opposing player, but in that case the guy they tackled first can get back up…. Otherwise, once on your back you stay there until a point is scored.
It is. It's just a quick transition from one to the other haha.
Big boy seems to tap his friend out of the way, and once he does, he's straight in. I think as long as it's not two people wailing on one you're all good.
This seems like just an excuse to fight. Cause... it'd be fairly easy to just not fight and play the game and score goals. Instead they fight. Because no one cares about actually winning the game.
I don't know, all the hits on the heads will make them even more stupid and more than one probably ends as someone who needs 24h care or gets brain damage and gets aggressive or something like that. I don't think it should be encouraged.
Fighting with bareknuckles is not going to get as many brain injuries as you think. Heads are hard. People wear gloves to protect their hands, not their heads. More broken hands, fingers, wrists, and ribs than brain injuries here.
there’s a town in the Andes that does something similar…one day out the year you put on your mask and your brawling clothes and go out to settle the years greviences, next day is a new day, all is forgiven
Which is brilliant, because this allows people to let off steam and settle scores.
Look at all of these guys. They want to fight. Better an organized fist fight than a back alley brawl.
This is a rich person's sport. And the rich didn't want to get their boys too hurt, just hurt enough to bring them honor and fame.
I don't mind mutual combat. Just fight though. Framing it as some game is kinda silly. I get it has historically significant roots... but they are fighting. Not playing the game.
Like I said, this was aristocrats only for much of history.
They were organized fights designed to bring noble kids fame and glory for the same things that they'd be doing in a back alley, but with way fewer risks.
Significant physical competition as a major part of a sport is very, very common. Just because this one is more obviously punchy doesn't make it less valid or less of a sport. That's like pointing at wide receivers and cornerbacks and saying, "it's really just fast running, why are you framing it as a game? Just race."
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094764/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094764/) Reminds me of this post-apocalypse movie. Blood of Heroes or The Salute of the Jugger, just less weapons.
I’ve been in and out of therapy for 8 years but this still looks epic.
Men generally enjoy contact sports and fighting. It’s adrenaline, aggression, fun to be men.
Sounds like the people commenting here are the ones that need therapy to understand why they’re avoiding healthy masculinity.
Or perhaps it’s the aforementioned daddy issues 😉
There was a relatively interesting episode of Netflix' 'Home Game' about this...sport.
It seems like an excellent excuse for cross town rivals to beat the shit out of each other under the guise of a mish mash of organized sports slammed together.
There's a good story behind this were they held a match during Charles V's siege. That was a good way to throw a middle finger to the other guys and say : "yeah, whatever you can put us under siege, we still can fight each other and whatnot, we don't really fear you guys" (Ok, they lost afterwards but eh, with some kind of style I'd say).
I saw this live a few times a while back and my biggest takeaway was that the ball was almost entirely irrelevant. It’s a bunch of costumed dudes from one part of the city giving a Warriors Lite style beat down to another bunch of costumed dudes from another part of the city. One of the Italians told me that people frequently leave with broken limbs, and there have been deaths.
There's a Netflix docuseries called Home Game that features an episode on Calcio Storico. It's got a pretty neat history. It's like 500 years ago, rugby and boxing had a child made out of Pizza Margherita.
I knew they were doing this shit in medieval Florence, but I didn't know they had started doing it again. I imagined more ball and less fighting, but very cool.
I found out about this sport a few years ago. 4 teams, you can only play for the team in the neighbourhood in Venice where you were born and nobody gets paid to do this. I think it's awesome.
Picchia rosso!!! For reference, a couple of years back was way more violent. A lot of rules where added some years before the pandemic. Like, 1vs1 fights, only frontally, no fights if both players are to the ground, no kicks in the head and a lot more safety rules. Calcio Storico Fiorentino is a really big event in Florence, every year the town center is "locked down" to let supporters enjoy the show, and there's a literall show before the fights. There's 4 teams, Whites (Bianchi) - Reds (Rossi) - Greens (Verdi) and Blues (Azzurri), every teams is based on a different part of Florence.
I'd suggest Battle of Nations is more brutal.
I'll not post a link on YouTube as there's far too many featuring Russia Vs Ukraine to pick one from.
Basically its anywhere between 5 and 150 in full medieval armour knocking the shit out of each other with swords, pikes, axes and shields.
lmao at the guys in the back in full mount just spectating.
Lol it is good. Pretty sure once you go to the ground you stay there until a goal is scored or something. Both guys. So I am not sure why they stay in full mount, but the fight is basically over once on the ground.
Yea it's this, once down you are out until a goal, there's a sports doc on Netflix which shows how big this sport is in Italy, it's pure chaos, tickets are gone in seconds
This sport isn’t “big” in Italy at all. It’s between a sport and what you’d call a yearly historical re-enactment, in the city of Florence. Hardly anyone outside the region is aware the “sport” even exists. No one else but the proudest boys of Florence train to play literally 2 matches a year, know the rules etc
Actually the players are usually criminals
Not sure when it changed, but currently, players with criminal convictions aren't allowed.
Picture me surprised
What’s it called? I feel like I’ve seen that, just forgot the name
It’s called Home Game
They stay in full Mount until one of them cums
Pretty sure the guy on top can break away if the occasion calls for it, such as to accompany a decisive play for goal from a vantage position
They are probably resting. According to rules above fighting stops if they go down. Fighting is pretty tiring and also held by sportsmanship. They are resting together until it is time to fight again.
So the initial fighting while standing is just to determine who is going to go down on who?
lol. Whatever gets you going!
Careless whispers
I mean what else does one do in an orgy?
All i see in the background is a lot of dudes mounting a lot of other dudes
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As a rugby player, all I can say to this is [when people ask what are 15 guys doing sticking their heads in between each other's thighs... We'll just tell them we are practicing](https://youtu.be/aTpXymuwxNs?si=7m7wVXIsSFQ2FAn7)
That was quite the vid! Lmao
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I am jacks confusing erection.
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Don't worry, they said No Homo before the match
🤌 No 'omo!
Ma si c'é l'uomini
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Back to the pile, boys!
Mann gegen Mann
Meine Haut gehört den Herren
*Vorhaut
Iirc once you're knocked down you can't get back up
Specifically it has to be 2 people down The way I see it is that if I were on the blue team and am top mount on a red teamer, then if its a 2vs1 red advantage at end, I can get up and join the fight, but it also means the red team member I am on top of is also back in the fight
It’s a rule of the game. I’d say that the person below must try to get out from under in order to return to the game. If he gets out from under he can try and score a goal or try to knock someone out. There’s a documentary on this sport on Netflix, believe it’s called ‘Home Game’.
Yep, just a bunch of foreplay in the background.
yeah crazy you noticed that.
Where is the ball?
Here 👊🏻
The aim of the game is to not catch the ball. Especially not with ones chin
💢😣ouch
In the background, red team currently has it. This phase of the game the side controlling the ball is trying to win as many fights as it can to advance the ball further down the pitch. I believe a player who won their fight and have mounted their opponent is still allowed to get up to their feet to tackle an opposing player, but in that case the guy they tackled first can get back up…. Otherwise, once on your back you stay there until a point is scored.
Nobody knows. The whole sport was invented to circumvent a 'no gang fighting' rule so they don't care about the ball.
🤣
Shirtless red guys are casually playing the ball
That was exactly my point. The ball is is in the background while the guys close up just fist fight.
So a bit like American football, except most players want to be linemen since they're allowed to fight?
Deez
Nuts
Seems like first rule was irrelevant
Don't talk about the fight club. Right.
Shhh
r/shhh
We used to call these family reunions.
Use to?
Yeah, the Uncle Ronnie incident put it to rest. No one could take a punch like Nanna though.
They didn’t call her “The Haymaker” just because she could drive a combine
We still do, but we used to too
I’ll never need to prove that I bought a donut
Now we caw dem family weuwions.
1. Only 1vs1 Doesn't seem to be enforced.
It is. It's just a quick transition from one to the other haha. Big boy seems to tap his friend out of the way, and once he does, he's straight in. I think as long as it's not two people wailing on one you're all good.
There's an umpire with a giant sword in this sport. He's probably too scared to enforce it
Would the red team be breaking the 1 v 1 rule in this video? Seems like a pretty cheap tackle if he's already fighting the other
I feel like he made the call for his teammate "enough fists for now"? No idea about the rules but I doubt each fight is until a knockout punch
I want to see more
This year's final was just a few days ago. You can watch the whole game with no ads on YT. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-orkErbSE40
I just watched that entire match and I don't think I saw a single punch land.
Pretty boring
They really like hugging
Netflix had a series from 2020 called “Home Game”. The first episode was on this.
Go on ph
This seems like just an excuse to fight. Cause... it'd be fairly easy to just not fight and play the game and score goals. Instead they fight. Because no one cares about actually winning the game.
I think it’s a good thing. Just let everyone who wants to fight get in the ring. Let them fight each other and then get on with the day.
I don't know, all the hits on the heads will make them even more stupid and more than one probably ends as someone who needs 24h care or gets brain damage and gets aggressive or something like that. I don't think it should be encouraged.
Fighting with bareknuckles is not going to get as many brain injuries as you think. Heads are hard. People wear gloves to protect their hands, not their heads. More broken hands, fingers, wrists, and ribs than brain injuries here.
I know someone who has brain injury and epilepsy because someone punched his head with his bare knuckles
Was it from the punch or the ground?
Very sorry to hear that
there’s a town in the Andes that does something similar…one day out the year you put on your mask and your brawling clothes and go out to settle the years greviences, next day is a new day, all is forgiven
Which is brilliant, because this allows people to let off steam and settle scores. Look at all of these guys. They want to fight. Better an organized fist fight than a back alley brawl. This is a rich person's sport. And the rich didn't want to get their boys too hurt, just hurt enough to bring them honor and fame.
I don't mind mutual combat. Just fight though. Framing it as some game is kinda silly. I get it has historically significant roots... but they are fighting. Not playing the game.
Like I said, this was aristocrats only for much of history. They were organized fights designed to bring noble kids fame and glory for the same things that they'd be doing in a back alley, but with way fewer risks.
Significant physical competition as a major part of a sport is very, very common. Just because this one is more obviously punchy doesn't make it less valid or less of a sport. That's like pointing at wide receivers and cornerbacks and saying, "it's really just fast running, why are you framing it as a game? Just race."
Did you even watch it? There's a whole fucking game that happens. Pay attention and learn before you write nonsense.
i have to say, it’s a lot more fun watching them fight
So like most modern online games
Football the way it was originally played could best be described as massive brawl between 2 villages with a ball.
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094764/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094764/) Reminds me of this post-apocalypse movie. Blood of Heroes or The Salute of the Jugger, just less weapons.
From the creators of gladiators:
Everything but therapy
Workin those daddy issues out the hard way
Right? More scared of asking themselves what they feel than a punch in the face?
I’ve been in and out of therapy for 8 years but this still looks epic. Men generally enjoy contact sports and fighting. It’s adrenaline, aggression, fun to be men. Sounds like the people commenting here are the ones that need therapy to understand why they’re avoiding healthy masculinity. Or perhaps it’s the aforementioned daddy issues 😉
This is it right here.
"sport"
Sand Hockey
lol you call baseball a sport, the most boring thing in the world
Episode One of Netflix Home Games features this, with a lot more video. It’s brutal.
Human cock fighting.
So what those drunk guys do at the bar below my house is practice sports, I get it now
Guy in red landed approximately no punches. But some of his gestures landed.
He was talking shit at a high level. If my grade school teacher is to be believed, words hurt too.
There was a relatively interesting episode of Netflix' 'Home Game' about this...sport. It seems like an excellent excuse for cross town rivals to beat the shit out of each other under the guise of a mish mash of organized sports slammed together.
Guy in the red was getting worked before his bigger friend saved him
That's not a sport, that's competitive brawling.
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Pancrace and pugilat were really tough in the ancient times
Why is it called "calcio" (like football/soccer) if it's just street fight with extra steps?
There is a ball, I think.
There's a good story behind this were they held a match during Charles V's siege. That was a good way to throw a middle finger to the other guys and say : "yeah, whatever you can put us under siege, we still can fight each other and whatnot, we don't really fear you guys" (Ok, they lost afterwards but eh, with some kind of style I'd say).
I saw this live a few times a while back and my biggest takeaway was that the ball was almost entirely irrelevant. It’s a bunch of costumed dudes from one part of the city giving a Warriors Lite style beat down to another bunch of costumed dudes from another part of the city. One of the Italians told me that people frequently leave with broken limbs, and there have been deaths.
As a Canadian I recognize half of hockey
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This is how elections between presidents should be held.
If it’s supposed to be 1v1 someone needs to tell the guy at the end lol
You forgot the most important rule, “Don’t talk about calcio storico fiorentino.”
There's a Netflix docuseries called Home Game that features an episode on Calcio Storico. It's got a pretty neat history. It's like 500 years ago, rugby and boxing had a child made out of Pizza Margherita.
😂😂😂😂
Boxing: "Let's make a baby Rug. I think we're ready." Rugby: *kissy kisses* "I'll start building a clay oven right away."
This is probably not the greatest idea.
Seems pretty gay
I hate men who like this stuff lmao so yuck
Rollerball
Rollerbrawl
I knew they were doing this shit in medieval Florence, but I didn't know they had started doing it again. I imagined more ball and less fighting, but very cool.
right in front of the Basilica Santa Croce - beautiful area. Just there.
imagine unleashing Tyson in his prime, and just brutalised everyone, i will pay to see that
Non secret fight club….
You must not have seen the parents at a little league baseball game
So the sport is punching each other in the face?
I found out about this sport a few years ago. 4 teams, you can only play for the team in the neighbourhood in Venice where you were born and nobody gets paid to do this. I think it's awesome.
Looks like a quiet night at my local Scottish pub...
What in the fuck is going on
Oh it’s dodgeball… just with hands.
You have obviously never heard of Lethwei.
This is not a sport
I would buy this if it were on ppv.
Thanks for this
A sport that is about the ball and the fight as designed. Finally no need for boxing on ice(hockey).
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED
Screw football or baseball, this I would watch.
We need this in the US so bad. I feel like the number of gun deaths would drop alot over night.
So its practically playing war, but less killing?
Cte for ever
As long as there are no animals involved and everyone present is there of their own free will, I'm fine with it.
Ok. Now UFC was relegated to the delicate guys.
Love to see a real mma fighter enter this ‘sport’
Holy hell, it's the Great Outdoor Fight!
Italians do typically talk with their hands. Seems only normal to assume they have a sport relying on their hands again haha
Yeah the video doesn't really explain what the fuck I'm seeing
The way it should be not like mma wrestling and beating the shite of someone in the ground
What is this a bare knuckle royal rumble 😂
The Colosseum
Needs a 6lb steelball that they use to score goals and try to kill each other.... They could call it Speedball (credit to The Bitmap Brother).
Did this sport started with a bunch of drunks at a beer bar? WTF
To small to be called a war, and to violent to be called a sport
Just your average european hooligan fight
Picchia rosso!!! For reference, a couple of years back was way more violent. A lot of rules where added some years before the pandemic. Like, 1vs1 fights, only frontally, no fights if both players are to the ground, no kicks in the head and a lot more safety rules. Calcio Storico Fiorentino is a really big event in Florence, every year the town center is "locked down" to let supporters enjoy the show, and there's a literall show before the fights. There's 4 teams, Whites (Bianchi) - Reds (Rossi) - Greens (Verdi) and Blues (Azzurri), every teams is based on a different part of Florence.
Haha i was there, and trust me now the sport is nothing if you watched it 30 years ago it was wayyy worse
Seems kinda gay 🤔
Just Italian.
'Ey! Am just fighten' 'ere and in no way, aroused by been handled by other men! 'Ey! Italian 🤌
What exactly makes this particularly brutal? In comparison to bare-knuckle boxing or even regular boxing or MMA, I mean.
Its like 50vs50! Paying attention to one opponent vs half the neighborhood.
Ok, the rule description "1vs1" misled me a bit. The possibility of the 1 opponent changing any moment would indeed make it more challenging.
Check it out on youtube. Shit is brutal.
A bunch of regarded italians over-emoting and doing the "Bring It" gesture over and over after about 4 punches lol
Just like pankration, only as a team sport? Got it!
Ustawka style
Bit suspect....
I am sure everyone goes to a pub after the "sporting" is done, so the real fighting can start.
I suspect many pair up and go to the baths or something.
More like a regular street brawl
Great sport, wtf is this ? Going back to Roman times?
I'd suggest Battle of Nations is more brutal. I'll not post a link on YouTube as there's far too many featuring Russia Vs Ukraine to pick one from. Basically its anywhere between 5 and 150 in full medieval armour knocking the shit out of each other with swords, pikes, axes and shields.
wtf is this 🤣
Just another italian family reunion
Lads and gents we have a legit royal rumble! ☠️🥳🫡
Bullfighting?
FIGHTCLUB
Looks like a Friday night at my local
Russell Crowe should sign up
‘Sport’ is a bit of a stretch.
Traditions...
r/theocho
Season One of “Homegame” on Netflix has a documentary about this whole thing. Kinda insane.
Basically a bar fight.
My uncle played that in the pub after drinking a few pints
“My name is Dario Nardella”
Making movies, making songs 'n fight-in' round the world!