Any news story that contains the line "and German hipsters can't get enough of it," is going to be at least a little bit weird.

So I get up early this morning and unload the dishwasher while playing the video stream of CNN International because it's one of the few streaming news sources I don't overtly despise and they're like a playskool version of the BBC World News. While my back is turned this story comes on and I assume it's a joke/ad for some weird combo product or some high concept marketing piece from an energy company. But no, it's a real thing, evidently. I give you Chess-Boxing:

Chess Boxing
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(CNN doesn't allow embedding, so I DL'ed it and put it on DailyMotion, probably breaking a gajillion Copyrights, but just FYI it's Copyright 2007 Cable News Network, LLC, LLLP, A Time Warner Company - please don't sue.)

Personally, I think that the whole affair is just "German hipsters" playing a joke on news outlets. Sure the guys are big serious boxers, and yes, they do appear to be playing chess, but come on... Olympic event?

But by golly it does have a Wikipedia page, but does that really mean anything?

Tags: Sports, Hot???, Weird