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Football or soccer as it’s called in some countries, is supposed to be the Beautiful game.

Here is a catchy video from a campaign telling everyone to keep the game beautiful.

For background, here is an other video on why the beautiful game is turning ugly.

Wondering why two heavy weight, half naked guys are playing chess in the middle of a boxing ring? Well the ‘Chessboxers’ were throwing punches at each other just a couple of minutes ago.

Combine the world’s most popular thinking game with the number one fighting sport and you have a unique hybrid sport - Chessboxing. The match starts with a 4 minute chess session and can go up to eleven alternating rounds of boxing and chess. Chessboxing is gaining in popularity with a World Championship every year. This year its in Berlin. Here’s a video clip from an earlier world championship match.