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Organized Hockey Fighting In an Iced Ring Is Now a Thing

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EDMONTON, AB - FEBRUARY 11: Chicago Blackhawks Center Jonathan Toews (19) covers his mouth while giving his line mates instructions in the second period during the Edmonton Oilers game versus the Chicago Blackhawks on February 11, 2020 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, AB.(Photo by Curtis Comeau/Icon Sportswire)

The future is here.

Most fans who casually tune in to watch hockey love to see fists fly. It’s a part of hockey that gets the most coverage, and we’re all guilty of hoping we can catch a hockey fight when we attend a game. Now we have a fighting league that takes two hockey players and pits them in an iced fighting ring.

That’s it.

It’s not a no-holds-barred event, and according to the rules of the fighting, no head-butt, no biting, no pulling hair or kneeing your opponent. Also, combatants’ helmets and gloves must stay on at all times.

Fighters must wear MMA gloves too.

See below:

This is definitely interesting concept, but don’t think it’s going to go mainstream. It feels a lot like something you’re going to end up watching on the OCHO.

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