Any Greek/Pankration fighters?

[WarDronx]

did you feel a little silly asking this? An art that was out of practice for like 2000 years?

People do have pankration fights today but it’s like amateurs that are actually training mma getting their toes wet. There is no reason to train for pankration today

A fighting system incorporating stand-up striking and wrestling (both standing and on the ground) was a part of almost every culture, it couldn't be out of practice. Maybe it was named differently but it was essentially the same techniques. Pankration actually was and still is MMA. The reason it has a different name is because they made a modern day version with some differences from MMA. I think the original pankration was more like modern MMA than the modern Pankration, although in actual practice they are the same. The training seems to be the same.

 

[Blayt7hh]

A fighting system incorporating stand-up striking and wrestling (both standing and on the ground) was a part of almost every culture, it couldn't be out of practice. Maybe it was named differently but it was essentially the same techniques. Pankration actually was and still is MMA. The reason it has a different name is because they made a modern day version with some differences from MMA. I think the original pankration was more like modern MMA than the modern Pankration, although in actual practice they are the same. The training seems to be the same.

Lol come on man. Combat sports have always existed, that’s all your post is really saying. It basically ceased to exist as very little info survived and is relegated to a neat fact of history that mma once existed in a form in the ancient era. To suggest someone train in pankration to compete in mma today is suggesting that the learn to fight based on a few paintings on pots and old scrolls that survived Ancient Greece.

 

[Histalian]

Costa Phillippou

Phill a who?

 

[GreatSaintGuillotine]

Khabib is a Master of sports in Pankration. Mighty mouse trains it. Pretty much all the AMC fighters.

 

[bad seed]

behold, the SPARTAN. The most violent warrior to step inside the octagon, the culmination of 3000 years of fighting heritage.

 

[WarDronx]

Lol come on man. Combat sports have always existed, that’s all your post is really saying. It basically ceased to exist as very little info survived and is relegated to a neat fact of history that mma once existed in a form in the ancient era. To suggest someone train in pankration to compete in mma today is suggesting that the learn to fight based on a few paintings on pots and old scrolls that survived Ancient Greece.

My opinion is simply that there is no difference between what pankration was and modern MMA. The depictions on the pots and the little info we have show or describe techniques that are pretty much commonplace (i.e. armbar). The info we have is not enough to compose a different sport, i agree there, but there is no need to have a different sport because it is essentially the same. Some trainers/ gym might advertise it as different than MMA or a different form of it (mostly in Greece) but i don't see much difference. Just an opinion though.

 

[Which Doctor]

Greeks aren't very skilled at combat sports. They lack heart and discipline.

 

[Chain Saw]

The Greeks of today have nothing to do with ancient Greece.

 

[ArabPride99]

• ELIAS "THE SPARTAN" THEODOROU

I know he’s Canadian but his name sure sounds Greek

Lebanese Origin not Greek

 

[DDx2]

Elina Kallionidou in Bellator. fought Yankova not that long ago.

 

[G. Polatidis]

"ethnically"

He is Greek 100%

 

[Blayt7hh]

My opinion is simply that there is no difference between what pankration was and modern MMA. The depictions on the pots and the little info we have show or describe techniques that are pretty much commonplace (i.e. armbar). The info we have is not enough to compose a different sport, i agree there, but there is no need to have a different sport because it is essentially the same. Some trainers/ gym might advertise it as different than MMA or a different form of it (mostly in Greece) but i don't see much difference. Just an opinion though.

Right... but the thread isn't about whether or not it's similar to MMA. The thread asked why there isn't more Greek/Pankration fighters in MMA. The answer is because it's a long dead and lost art.