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Nothing new under the sun: Mixed Martial Arts bears striking resemblance to ancient Greek Pankration

Many things can change in 2650 years. Apparently, however, when it comes to sports, everything old is new again. At least when it comes to the sport that has the fastest growing popularity in the U.S. today: mixed martial arts.

But whether you call it Mixed Martial Arts or Ultimate Fighting, the sport is far from modern. The combination of Greco-Roman wrestling with a variety martial arts techniques, sport is a lot like free-form ancient Greek sport of Pankration competitive.

It goes back to 648 BC, when it was introduced at the Games Olympic sport of wrestling was bound by two rules: no eyes upward and no bite. Sounds like the standards of my Kindergarten teacher established. Beyond that, without But nothing was valid in this competition, whose name comes from two Greek words: pan, meaning "all" and kratos, meaning "powers."

In singles matches often hours long-lasting (and sometimes resulting in the death of one or both combatants), the game quickly became the most popular Olympic sport.

Its popularity declined in the arrival of the Roman Empire, when he began to fight against other sports that may prevail. In the modern Western world, boxing and wrestling grew in popularity while in the East, the traditional martial arts flourished.

Flash forward to the early 1900. Brazil, twenty-one year old Carlos Gracie, who was trained in judo by renowned Japanese champion Mitsuyo Maeda, began teaching her four brothers, art, and he was taught. In 1925, Carlos and his younger brother Helio moved to Rio de Janeiro, where they opened a jiu-jitsu studio and instituted the "Gracie Challenge ", taking all who wanted to compete against them. Begun as a means to draw attention to its newly opened academy, said Gracie Challenge fighters in disciplines ranging from martial arts of karate and boxing, capoeira (a form of Afro-Brazilian fighting) and wrestling, even.

Futures combatants – and the hordes of spectators – began to flock to these parties, before long, they were drawing such crowds, parties had to be held in the sand largest Brazilian football. Over time, sport (vale-tudo known that the Portuguese term for "anything goes") had grown the second most popular sport in Brazil, just behind soccer (a state that still stands today).

From 1935 to 1951, 135-pound Helio Gracie fought and defeated more than 1,000 competitors in this form of unarmed combat, and many of his opponents will exceed by more than 100 pounds.

In 1993, MMA acquired a new dimension with the institution of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, based on Brazilian vale-tudo (California art dealer who learned from Davie's son in Rorito Helio School Gracie Jiu-Jitsu two years before).

Derided as "human cockfighting," the no-holds-banned fighting style was often said to be more brutal competitive sport. Today, MMA and UFC are growing in popularity, with UFC to expand its audience beyond early PPV and gaining more exposure on regular U.S. and Canadian cable television.

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