Pankration

What is Pankration

The Pankration is the greek martial art developed in ancient Greece. It was one of the major combat sports in ancient Greece. Pankration got into Olympics by the middle of B.C 6th century. The meaning of Pankration is all strength or all power. Pankration attributes both wrestling and hand to hand boxing. Thus we can see significant resemblance of Pankration with modern mixed martial arts

Pankration History

Like almost all ancient martial art, the origin of Pankration is linked with Greek mythology. The credit goes to the legends of greek mythology Heracles and Theseus . Heracles is well known greek myth strength and there is no need to explain about him. Theseus was the founder and king of Athens, another legend of ancient Greece.

First Martial Art

Martial arts have a long history. Its starts from ancient greek Pankration to modern mma (mixed martial arts). When some historians mentions as kalaripayattu, the Indian martial art, as the first martial art and some mentions Chinese martial art kung fu as the first martial art,  some historians argues Greek Pankration as the former of all these martial arts and points out that martial arts as Pankration reached India through Alexander's invasion.