Manly or insane? Possibly a little bit of both.
The following ‘sports’ fall into separate categories for sure. No doubt they all take a disturbing amount of testosterone.
Josh Helmuth is the editor of CraveOnline Sports.
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Manliest Sports 2
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Buzkashi
Definition = a sport in which teams on horseback compete to gain possession of a headless animal carcass and bring it to a scoring area. It is the national sport of Afghanistan.
Kyrgyz riders play the traditional Central Asian sport Buzkashi also known as Kok-Boru or Oglak Tartis in Bishkek on March 17, 2015. Mounted players compete for points by throwing a stuffed sheepskin into a well. AFP PHOTO / VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO (Photo credit should read VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Caber Toss
Definition = The caber toss is a traditional Scottish athletic event in which competitors toss a large tapered pole called a "caber". It is normally practised at the Scottish Highland Games.
Competitors take part in "Tossing The Caber" event during the 150th Birnam Highland Games in Perthshire, Scotland, on August 30, 2014. The Birnam Highland Games are a traditional Scottish Highland Games and have been held annually since 1864. AFP PHOTO/ANDY BUCHANAN (Photo credit should read Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images)
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Calcio Fiorentino
Definition = (also known as calciostorico "historic football") is an early form of football that originated in 16th century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have originated in the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence.
Note: Basically soccer in which men are allowed to beat each other's heads in.
Red and blue team players vie for the ball during their Calcio Fiorentino match in Florence's Piazza Santa Croce on June 24, 2009. Calcio Fiorentino, an early form of football of 16th century originated from the ancient roman "harpastum", is played in teams of 27, using both feet and hands and allows tactics such as head-butting, punching, elbowing, and choking, but forbids sucker-punching and kicks to the head. Goals can be scored by throwing the ball over a goal running the width of each end of the giant sand pit. Each game is played out for 50 minutes with the winner being the team with the most points or 'cacce'. The sport was not played for around two hundred years but then revived in the twentieth century when organized games began again in 1930. AFP PHOTO / Filippo MONTEFORTE (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Camel Jumping
Note: It is what it is!
SANAA, YEMEN - AUGUST 28: A boy jumps over the camels during a competition in 7th Sanaa Tourism Summer Festival in Sanaa, Yemen on 28 August, 2014. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Cheese Rolling
Note: Men break bones tumbling down a hill in England in an attempt to the first one to capture the cheese roll.
Competitors tumble down Coopers Hill in pursuit of a round Double Gloucester cheese during the annual cheese rolling and wake near the village of Brockworth near Gloucester in western England on May 26, 2014. With a disputed history dating back to at least the 1800s, the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling involves hordes of fearless competitors chasing an eight pound Double Gloucester cheese down a steep hill. The slope has a gradient in places of 1-in-2 and in others 1-in-1, its surface is very rough and uneven and it is almost impossible to remain on foot for the descent. The winner of the race down the hill wins the cheese.AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images)
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Chess Boxing
BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 21: Middleweight World Champion in chessboxing Sven Rooch from Germany plays a round of chess versus his Spanish challenger for the World Championship Jonathan Rodriguez Vega at Columbiahalle on November 21, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. Chess boxing is a hybrid sport that combines chess and boxing in alternate rounds. (Photo by Target Presse Agentur Gmbh/Getty Images)
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Cold Resistant Contest
ZHANGJIAJIE, CHINA - JANUARY 25: (CHINA OUT) Competitors challenge the freezing cold in ice water during a Cold-resistant Contest at top of Tianmen Mountain on January 25, 2015 in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province of China. The one who stay in the ice water for the longest time with the challenge of eating popsicles, embracing ice blocks and blowing cooling fan will claims the champion of the contest. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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Competitive Eating
NEW YORK, NY - JULY 5: Joey Chestnut (L), champion eater, and Matt Stonie (R), came in second eating 56 hot dogs, are seen during the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest in Coney Island, New York, United States on July 4, 2014. (Photo by Bilgin Sasmaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Fire Football
KEDIRI, EAST JAVA, INDONESIA - 2012/10/07: Some students play Fire Football at at an Islamic boarding school called Lirboyo. Fire Football is a soccer game using a fireball made from a coconut from a palm tree soaked in kerosene. Fire Football is found in many Islamic boarding schools in East Java. This tradition is related to Pencak Silat, a traditional Indonesian martial art.. (Photo by Arief Priyono/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Onbashira
Note: Basically sliding down the side of a mountain on a giant log. Fatalities not uncommon.
Participants astride a huge log slide down a hill during the Onbashira Festival on April 9, 2010 in Shimosuwa, Japan. The septennial festival has taken place for the past 1,200 years. The huge timbers are used as sacred pillars for the Suwa Grand Shrines of Kamisha and Shimosha, which are re-built in Suwa City. The lumbers' journey down the mountainside often results in injury and fatalities as participants try to ride the timbers as they slide down the mountain.
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Pacu Jawi
TANAH DATAR, INDONESIA - JUNE 14: A Pacu Jawi jockey spurs the cow during the traditional Pacu Jawi cow race on June 14, 2014 in Tanah Datar, West Sumatera, Indonesia. The Pacu Jawi (traditional cow racing) is held annually in muddy rice fields to celebrate the end of the harvest season by the Minangkabau people. Jockeys grab the tails of the bulls and skate across the mud barefoot balancing on a wooden plank to show the strength of their bulls that are later auctioned to buyers. (Photo by Rajo Lenggang/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Scottish Hammer Throw
GLENFINNAN, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 21: A competitor in the hammer throw during the Glenfinnan Highland Games August 21, 2004, Glenfinnan, Scotland. The Glenfinnan Highland Games are one of the most traditional and family orientated games in Scotland. For over a century competitors from near and far have competed at the picturesque location on the banks of Loch Shiel, famous in history for the place where in 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie landed on his return from France and started the Jacobite uprising to try and reclaim the throne.. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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The Wall of Death
Note: Riding cars in a wooden cylinder while performing stunts? No thanks.
Indian performers ride cars and motor bikes inside a makeshift wooden cylindrical 'Wall of Death' during the annual Farmers' Fair at Shama Chak Jhiri, some 22 kms from Jammu on November 17, 2013. Farmers in huge numbers from all over India gather to pay tribute to the 'Samadhi' or tomb of legendary farmer Baba Jit Mal, popularly known as Baba Jitto who sacrificed his life for the liberation of the farming community. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
