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 ...

Alarm clocks are not needed on Saturday mornings at the Villages at McCullers Walk apartment complex. Each weekend the sounds of clanging steel, blaring metal music and the thumping of 300-pound tires ...

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 ...

We often romanticize the Middle Ages, seeing them as a time of chivalry, gallant knights, and castles. Beneath all of this ...

To find yourself in the helmet and armor of a true medieval knight for close-to-true, steel-on-steel combat is an unmatched sensation, say some of Colorado’s bravest and mightiest heroes. You might ...

Armored combat is a sport that's growing in Tulsa. There are two armored combat teams in the Armored Combat Worldwide league. The state's third team is based out of OKC. It's modern day, Medieval-era ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — The Colorado Springs chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism hosted a medieval combat tournament over the third weekend of October to determine the next rulers ...

Jarred Bender, medieval combat fighter with the NC Dire Drakes, poses in his full kit of armor. The team’s members, outfitted in 80 pounds of steel armor, shields and dulled axes and swords, compete ...