Watch As Kung Fu Championship Descends Into

Violent Mass Brawl

match

between

Armenian and Azerbaijani

fighters resulted in total
chaos at the European
Kung Fu championships in
Ukraine.
As

about

between

two

young fighters came to

an end, one appeared to
react to something said

by a man just outside

the ropes.
The altercation between
those two escalated at an
astonishing

rate,

with

onlookers piling into the

ring to get involved in a
mass brawl.
This was much more than
pushing and shoving - with
sticks, chairs and other

furniture being used as

weapons.

European

Kung

Fu

Federation head Nikolay

Matulevsky

was

reportedly injured in the

incident after trying to
intervene and stop the
violence.
The

fighting

throughout

the

spread
sports

hall, but was eventually

brought under control by
security guards.
Armenia

and

Azerbaijan

are neighbours who fought

two wars in the twentieth
century. The two countries
continue

to

dispute

ownership

of

landlocked

mountainous

region
Karabakh.

of

the
Nagorno-

The Azerbaijani team was

afterwards disqualified for
inappropriate behaviour at
the competition.