From bedroom to ring: Pillow fighting gets its first official champion

As children, we have regularly done it. As adults, not that often. But that did not stop pillow-fighting to come of age. A pillowfighting tournament was recently organised in Florida, US. And the Pillow Fight Championship crowned its first-ever champion after the children's game was turned into a combat sport with professionals taking part in it. The pay-per-view event saw 16 men and eight women, most of them trained in mixed martial arts, landing pillows randomly on their opponents instead of punches and kicks inside a ring. Nobody gets hurt. While it does sound cushy, the sport is anything but that.

Participants in the pay-per-view appeared as serious as those in any other combat sport to win the title. The winning prize comprised a title belt and $5,000 (roughly `3.73 lakhs).

Brazil's Istela Nunes won the coveted title on the women's side by defeating American Kendahl Voelker. In the men's category, Hauley Tillman from the US defeated countryman Marcus Brimage.

People behind the Pillow Fight Championship say it began with an idea to develop a real fighting sport that would appeal to the international family audience. (Agencies)