How good were olympic wrestlers in the days of the ancient greeks and romans?
They were heavily funded as it was a hugely important part of their culture back then, a great spectacle with money to be lost and won, and they would have sourced the very best athletes from around the known world to train.
They had exceptionally good diet for the time, and the greatest wrestlers of the eras gone would be hired to train them.
It should also be noted that the ancient greek olympic games ran for 622 years.
622 years of generation after generation of fully focused, highly funded and cultured wrestling programmes would have produced some immense wrestling talent, how do you all think that these wrestlers would stand up against the D1 and olympic wrestlers of today?
Do you think the grappling GOAT was alive more than a thousand years ago?
This also leads into another question, Pankration was practically MMA. If one were to apply the above thoughts to Pankration, which ran for 705 years, ended by roman emperor Theodosius, mixing wrestling and striking, how would they fare against MMA fighters of the 21st century?
I thought of this idea after reading this article which is fairly irrelevant to the whole topic but it made some cool points which sparked my thoughts.
https://www.fightstorepro.com/blogs...-sport-on-earth-and-what-you-need-to-start-it
They were heavily funded as it was a hugely important part of their culture back then, a great spectacle with money to be lost and won, and they would have sourced the very best athletes from around the known world to train.
They had exceptionally good diet for the time, and the greatest wrestlers of the eras gone would be hired to train them.
It should also be noted that the ancient greek olympic games ran for 622 years.
622 years of generation after generation of fully focused, highly funded and cultured wrestling programmes would have produced some immense wrestling talent, how do you all think that these wrestlers would stand up against the D1 and olympic wrestlers of today?
Do you think the grappling GOAT was alive more than a thousand years ago?
This also leads into another question, Pankration was practically MMA. If one were to apply the above thoughts to Pankration, which ran for 705 years, ended by roman emperor Theodosius, mixing wrestling and striking, how would they fare against MMA fighters of the 21st century?
I thought of this idea after reading this article which is fairly irrelevant to the whole topic but it made some cool points which sparked my thoughts.
https://www.fightstorepro.com/blogs...-sport-on-earth-and-what-you-need-to-start-it