We’ve seen our fair share of old men with sexy young gals, but at least a relationship like that can point to money.

We’ve even seen the occasional WNBA-sized monster woman holding hands with a jockey-looking male figure. Again, when in doubt, think money.

In this instance of chess and boxing, though, there’s really no x-factor that could wed those polar opposites together.

BERLIN – Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match.

In front of 1,000 cheering fans one recent Saturday night, Sazhin moved his bishop to go in for the kill and won the world championship of chess boxing, a weird hybrid sport that combines as many as five rounds of pugilism with a game of chess.

In terms of competition, I guess this hybrid would cross together the two vend diagrams of brains and fighting. Hell, I’d watch this on ESPN over Poker, Strongest Man, ESPN First Take, or any program Skip Bayless is involved in.