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 ...

Knights had their day in the historical sun when fighting featured grueling hand-to-hand combat with swords, shields and lances. For centuries, they were the top of the food chain, elite fighters and ...

Watch enough movies set n medieval Europe and you’ve probably encountered it: a scene where someone without the benefit of armor takes on a fully armored knight — and wins. Everyone loves a good ...

The Worcester Art Museum’s reopening of its armor galleries goes far beyond the romance with medieval Europe.

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 ...

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 ...

A violent new sports league is trying to make inroads in the Pacific Northwest. It’s best described as full contact, MMA-style combat in medieval armor. The swords and axes are all real. These aren’t ...

The armored combat sport of "buhurt" — from an old French word meaning "to wallop" — delivers adrenaline and violence surpassing the bashing found in hockey and football. (Mike Barry / For The Times) ...