User blog comment:Gabool the Wild/The Idoicy of the Boxing Hare/@comment-2084900-20100616143355

People, I appreciate the lethality if bare-handed fighting, but the whole point of a weapon is to keep you alive through a battle. If you are fighting a few score unarmored, poorly armed vermin, great, But during The Middle Ages, almost all troops were heavily armored, at least knights, and they were mostly armed with warhammers and axes. Fighting all that bare-handed is not a smart idea. Boxing is a good skill to have because if you are captured and stripped of your weapons you are not unarmed. But if you are charging into battle screaming Eulalia, please have another weapon besides your fists