Fight club
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A fight club is an association that organizes fights between its members. Contrary to a duel or gladiator fights, the opponents use their fists in the fight and don't seek to kill their adversary. This kind of club is mostly illegal and gambling is frequently used to reward the winner.
History
Renaissance
By 1500, the Italian Italian Assassin and Mercenary Bartolomeo d'Alviano housed a fight club in the basement of his Caserma, open to his mercenaries for fighting for training and money. The Master Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze participated in some of the fights to gain money and the respect of the mercenaries.[1]
By 1511, the mercenaries of Constantinople housed a fight club in their headquarters near the Harbor of Theodosius. Ezio Auditore da Firenze became a member of this club as well during his stay in the city.[2]
Colonial America
- Main article: Boston Brawlers
During the American Revolution, a fight club known as the Boston Brawlers operated in Boston, New York City, and the Frontier. To participate in their tournaments, the candidate needed to beat six of the Brawlers. The Colonial Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton became the champion of the Brawlers during the American Revolutionary War.[3]
Victorian London
By 1868, many underground fight clubs had opened throughout the boroughs of London where the bookie Robert Topping organized the gambling around the matches. The fights took the form of a boxing match but the candidate had to face multiple opponents at the same time. The twin British Assassins Evie and Jacob Frye participated in these illegal fights and became the champions of London.[4]
Twenty years later, during the Whitechapel murders, the rogue Assassin Jack the Ripper and his gang the Rooks took control of fight clubs in Whitechapel and the City of London, where the members fought until death. The Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline of the Metropolitan Police Service and Scotland Yard tasked Evie Frye, who had returned to the city, to shut down these establishments.[5]
Appearences
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations
- Assassin's Creed III
- Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
References
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Jack the Ripper