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Thread: New Gladiator Games in Mexico!
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05-16-2010, 10:55 AM #1
New Gladiator Games in Mexico!
A new sports center in Mexico City will be devoted to the revival of ancient Aztec- and Mayan-created games that are rarely played in Mexico because they are dangerous, including a field-hockey-like competition played with a fireball. In another game, "pelota mixteca," players wearing metal-knuckled leather gloves punch a 2-pound, hard-rubber ball that could knock opponents unconscious. One thrill of the flaming-ball game, "pelota purepecha," is that some play it at night on unlighted fields. (In Mayan culture, according to a March USA Today dispatch, the world began with the gods challenging two humans to a ball game, and beating them, at which point the two die and are resurrected as the sun and moon.) [USA Today, 3-29-10]
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05-16-2010, 10:58 AM #2
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05-16-2010, 11:32 AM #3
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I hope this shit makes its way to Puerto Vallarta. They already have bull fighting there, but this would be an excellent addition.
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05-16-2010, 12:00 PM #4
This could be the next UFC
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05-16-2010, 03:20 PM #5
I think we should cover this lol
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05-16-2010, 03:35 PM #6
I live in Mexico city and haven't seen news on this. People here are to worried about the upcoming world cup and the kidnaping of powerful politicians. Sounds interesting.
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05-17-2010, 07:46 PM #7
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