Calcio Storico which must qualify as one of roughest competitive sports ever is also one of the World’s oldest and has been played exactly by the same tough rules in Florence,  Italy for the past five centuries. 

Once every year neighbors become rivals, and local Tuscans become gladiators and split into four teams as they wage a no-holds-barred battle for the soul of their city.  They kick, punch, box with their bare knuckles, wrestle and roll around in the mud whilst half dressed in traditional garb.  Anything is fair game in order to score a goal, and in fact, history is honored when fresh blood is spilled

This is not a tourist attraction but an annual event for the local population, and in fact, only takes place in Florence,  and on this one occasion VICE Sports was on hand to record this bloody, but homoerotic, mayhem.