El camino del Pankration
El combate de "todas las fuerzas" de los Juegos Olímpicos antiguos desde el 648 a. C., que mezclaba boxeo y lucha — un lejano antepasado de las MMA.
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Artes completas · Pankration · El combate de todas las fuerzas de la antigua Olimpia
Combates completos
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Combate completoPankration -84kg Men's FinalsWorld Combat Games
Combate completoPankration -84kg Men's FinalsWorld Combat Games
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Combate completo2012 World Championship - Pankration HighlightUnited World Wrestling
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Documentales
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DocumentalI Tried PankrationSensei Seth
DocumentalI Tried PankrationSensei Seth
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DocumentalPankration: Origins of Ancient Greece's Most Brutal Combat SportTigre Film
DocumentalPankration: Origins of Ancient Greece's Most Brutal Combat SportTigre Film🏛 Federaciones y asociaciones
Sitios oficiales: reglas, rankings, resultados y el calendario de eventos.
Grappling Pankration and Amateur MMA Federation of Armenia ↗Armenia · grapplingmma.am
📍 Clubes
🗂 Fact file
- Country
Grecia- Founder / origin
- Ancient Greece
- Year / period
- 648 BC (Olympics)
- Type
- Artes completas
- Main federation
- Grappling Pankration and Amateur MMA Federation of Armenia ↗
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica · Ancient Olympic sources (Pausanias, Philostratus)
Historia
Pankration ("all power") was the no-holds-barred combat sport of ancient Greece, joining boxing and wrestling. It entered the Olympic Games in 648 BC and was one of the most popular events, also practised as military training.
Almost everything was allowed — punches, kicks, throws, chokes and joint locks — except biting and gouging the eyes. Fights went on until one man gave up by raising a finger, was knocked out or died.
¿Sabías que…?
- In 564 BC Arrhichion of Phigalia was crowned champion after his death: he was choked but dislocated his opponent's ankle, who gave up first.
- Greek myth credits the heroes Heracles and Theseus with inventing pankration.
- There were no weight classes and no time limits.
- Modern MMA is often compared to pankration.
Glosario de técnicas
- Ano pankration
- upright fighting
- Kato pankration
- ground fighting
- Klimakismos
- taking the back ("ladder") with a choke
⚔ In the Arsenal
Figuras clave
- Arrhichion of Phigalia (6th century BC) — champion crowned after death
- Theagenes of Thasos (5th century BC) — champion in boxing and pankration
Fuentes: Encyclopaedia Britannica · Ancient Olympic sources (Pausanias, Philostratus)
Equipamiento de Pankration
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