Saturday's Ultimate Fighting Championship match will look like golf compared to the ancient Greek sport of pankration, which was added to the Olympics in 648 B.C.
, which was added to the Olympics in 648 B.C.
Death was an occupational hazard. But only Arrhichion of Phigalia managed simultaneously to lose his lifewin a fight. His opponent had gotten him in a tight stranglehold. Arrhichion kicked him so hard the man forfeited. Alas, it was too late; Arrhichion suffocated to death. But don’t believe the statues — not all pankratiasts looked like they belonged on the cover of the ancient edition of Men’s Health. Some fighters had potbellies. Ironically, the sophist Philostratus thought this was an advantage: A bulging gut made it easier to keep an opponent at a safe distance.
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