Too Punchdrunk to Dodge Checkmate...

Does George Foreman have the mental ability to checkmate his opponent? I'm actually not speaking metaphorically. There's this sport that combines chess and boxing. What? What's that?

Well to simplify the rules:

The fighters play chess in the middle of the ring for four minutes. The bell rings. The chess players box for three minutes. The bell rings...and so forth.

The loser said he was simply too punch drunk to fend off checkmate.

Whoever checkmates their opponent first wins. Whoever knocks their opponent out first wins the bout. If there is a chess draw, they go back to the boxing.

"It is especially hard for the one who has to play first. He can easily make a false move, and in chess this is fatal. So in training we toughen people by making them do push-ups between every two chess moves."

This is kind of ridiculous. This really really is.

So is this: "The weekend saw two matches apart from the world title bout and some of the competitors might have felt equally at home in a MENSA club meeting. One had a doctorate in biochemistry, another held a degree in political science and two were teachers."

Wtf? Are we breeding some kind of Super Mensch? Are Jewish people allowed to play?