Sparta Pankration

Pankration (All Power ) was a primitive combat technique that combined boxing, wrestling, and choking skills but kicking was allowed with two rules of combat: no eye gouging or biting.

The fight wouldn’t finish until one of the combatants was knocked out or accepted defeat, which the loser signaled by raising his index finger many fighters died in the arena.

Ancient Greeks believed that Heracles and Theseus developed pankration Introduced into Greek Olympics in 648 BC.

Sparta had Schools for Girls to Learn Pankration