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== Comic Books ==

* [[Enki Bilal]]'s comics feature chessboxing (boxing first, then chess) and a version of ice hockey where the points are counted by goals, wounded and dead.

* Spinball, from the notorious ''Action'' comic. Played only by [[Condemned Contestant|Condemned Contestants]]. Rollerball on ice with giant pinball pins as targets. Really.

* Supersurf from [[Two Thousand AD (Comic Book)|2000AD]]'s ''[[Judge Dredd]]''. An (initially) illegal [[Sky Surfing]] race through densely-populated streets, weaving between high-speed traffic. Later races included moving obstacles, snipers or dangerously narrow checkpoints.

** And as ''[[Cracked]]'' [http://www.cracked.com/article_19280_why-youve-never-heard-greatest-sport-ever-invented.html can't help but point out], that ball could easily [[Groin Attack|crush your nuts]].

* Lacrosse and polo both evolved from games that were essentially war simulations, complete with hand-to-hand combat.

* Arguably, ice hockey in the NHL had its moments of being this for most of its existence. The altering of play thanks to European import players' techniques, stricter rules after the 2004/5 Lockout and the more recent push it has been enduring from top brass to reach more markets than it probably should has turned the sport into only a shell of what it was for some fans. Others are completely in favor and some still on the fence, as the game has been "cleaned up", but is completely different from the game they knew all their lives.

** Let us not forget, hockey is probably the only sport (barring ''actual'' combat sports) where straight-out fist fights can be allowed in the middle of a game. Where in (American) football you can be fined for doing your job ''too'' well, hockey allows one-on-one fights between players, only stopping them when one or both players fall to the ice (or if the ref feels like stopping it).

** Come to think of it, [[Professional Wrestling]] tends to adopt this kind of look at times, although primarily arranged with some nod to the wrestlers' safety. Hard to sell tickets to see [[John Cena]] fight [[Triple H]] when Trips is in rehab and John's too concussed, you know.

* Demolition Derby type races.

* [http://io9.com/5884309/ultimate-tazer-ball-is-the-shocking-sport-of-the-future Ultimate tazer ball].

* Bull riding, a sport that requires trying to stay on a bull for eight seconds, then trying to not get trampled after falling. Injury and death rates are higher than any other modern sport. Helmets were adapted by some riders in the 2000's, but they could sometimes be worse if a hoof got hooked in one of the holes. A purpose-built helmet was finally designed in 2011.