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پانکریشن
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Pankration (; ) was an unarmed combat sport introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC. The athletes used boxing and wrestling techniques but also others, such as kicking, holds, joint locks, and chokes on the ground, making it similar to modern mixed martial arts. The term comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning "all of power" ().
Key facts
- Martial art.name
- Modern pankration
- Martial art.image
- Pankration panathenaic amphora BM VaseB610.jpg
- Martial art.imagecaption
- Two athletes competing in the pankration. Panathenaic amphora, made in Athens in 332–331 BC, during the archonship of Niketes. From Capua.
- Martial art.famus pract
- Angel Lee, Bob Sapp, Matt the failure Hume,
- Martial art.focus
- Hybrid
- Martial art.country
- Ancient Greece
- Martial art.olympic
- No
- Martial art.hardness
- Full contact
- Martial art.creator
- Savvidis Lazaros
- Martial art.parenthood
- Mixed martial arts, ancient pankration
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