Everybody was cardboard fighting …

Daniel Gilmore knows the precise moment his life changed. He was six years old and raining blows upon his brother with a tube made of cardboard. "It was a mixture of joy and a desire to hit him as hard as possible," he recalled of that fateful day.

Clearly, Mr Gilmore had found his calling.

Now the self-anointed Lord Cheeseburger of the Australian Cardboard Tube Fighting League, he is on a mission to spread cardboard tube fighting to the nation and gain respectability for an art form that many adults have traditionally frowned upon.



The sport's credibility took a huge leap forward, after Mr Gilmore secured the rights to host the inaugural cardboard tube fighting national championships in Newtown on April 5.

"I actually just rang up the council to see if I needed a permit and they said: 'Look, you're free to use the park so long as you're not too much of a public nuisance and don't hurt anyone'," he said.

There's no news on who the winner was yet.