Fancy a spot of tennis, basketball or football? Boring! Why play a conventional sport that actually makes some kind of sense when you could be spending your time tumbling down hills or climbing mountains to do your ironing. Without further ado, here are the 6 most ridiculous sports we can’t believe actually exist.
Yes, this really exists. The rules are pretty simple. You lock toes with your opponent and begin chanting, “one, two, three, four” before attempting to pin your foe’s toes down for three seconds. Of course, shoes and socks have to be removed before you begin to engage in this truly ridiculous battle. It probably comes as no surprise that alcohol had a little something to do with the origins of this sport. The World Toe Wrestling championship was invented at a pub in Derbyshire in 1976. The organisers even tried to to get the “sport” included in the 1997 olympics, but unbelievably they were turned down…