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The sport
What is Armored Combat?
A modernised version of "Buhurt", or Medieval Combat, that you can continuously repeat as a sport for fun or competition. Build your own unique kit and embrace your fighter storyline.
How it works
The armor is historically accurate and rated to take real impact. Strikes land at full force, the blunt edges do not cut. A marshal controls every exchange. Bouts run as group fights, last team standing, or as one on one duels.
Buhurt
The international name for Armored Combat. Fighters in full plate armor go at each other with blunted steel until one side is left standing. It is governed by rules, watched by marshals, and scored. Not staged, not choreographed.
Dueling
One fighter against another, scored on clean strikes. Pure technique, footwork and timing under the weight of the armor. The clearest test there is of a single fighter's skill.
Profights
One vs one format closest to MMA and UFC-style combat. It uses punching, kicking, weapon hits, throws and time fighting on the ground, pushing armor and the smiths who build it to their limits.
Where it came from
A real history. A new sport.
Buhurt is older than it looks. The name comes from the Old French behourd, a medieval tournament where groups of armored fighters clashed on foot. For centuries it lived only in chronicles and history books.
The modern sport is young. It grew out of historical fencing and reenactment communities in Eastern Europe, with Ukraine at its heart. The first Battle of the Nations, held at Khotyn Fortress in Ukraine in 2010, put it on the international map.
Since then the centre of the sport has moved west. Today it is run by international bodies like the International Medieval Combat Federation (IMCF) and Buhurt International (BI), with national leagues across the UK, Europe and North America and fighters from more than thirty countries. In the United States, promotions like Armored MMA (AMMA) are pushing the frontier of the profight, brutal one on one bouts fought in a cage, built for a live crowd and the camera.
So this is a real combat sport with real heritage. But as a modern sport it is barely fifteen years old. It is still young, still fragmented, still under-filmed, and still finding its feet.
That gap is the whole point of Tape My Steel. The fights, the athletes and the heritage already exist. What the sport does not have yet is the media, the structure and the front door every modern sport needs. We are building that, and helping turn something still run out of fields and back gardens into a full sport that holds its own next to boxing and MMA.
Build the sport
Not here to fight?
We also need the people who run the sport and the ones who film it.
New Age
This sport needs more marketing power. We are here to provide it. We will grow it, and build the tools and systems to market it properly, in a way that gives back to the community.
Grow the sport
Normalise it, standardise it, and give it the marketing power every modern sport already has. Structural tools and systems, not one off posts.
Give back
Everything we build feeds the community that makes the sport. Marketing solutions tailored specifically to Armored Combat, not borrowed from somewhere else.
Measured in numbers
Constant, measurable growth. Real numbers we can point to, so the progress is proof, not a promise.
Map prototype
Next step: a unified club map. Building region by region, not searchable yet.
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