Ancient Greek Pankration was the first historical instance of a combined multi-art hand-to-hand fighting system. As such, current MMA may justifiably be termed an evolved form of the Pankration that ...

The sport of MMA has sure grown a lot from the sands of ancient Greece to numerous arenas throughout the world. Beginning in ancient Greece, MMA began as an Olympic sport and transitioned into a ...

In the 600s BC, the major empires in the Middle East favored larger armies centered around archery, chariots and quick moving light infantry that worked well on large open battlefields. The Greeks ...

The American Pankration team is doing its own Throwback Thursday to an ancient Greek form of martial arts. Pankration, which means “all powers fighting,” is a form of fighting originally used in the ...

Four ASU students practice a once-deadly move in the Student Recreation Center. Photo by Taylor Costello The evening starts rather quietly. Situated in a modestly sized gym on the second floor of the ...

As they watch the Olympic Games in Japan, a group of University of Toronto students is learning about the origins and historical significance of such athletic competitions, which began almost 3,000 ...

If the International Olympic Committee reverses its decision and keeps wrestling as part of the Games, the ancient Greeks will be partly the reason. A sport with such long pedigree, critics have ...