On Saturday night in Houston, two men will enter a metal cage and proceed to punch, kick, elbow, knee, wrestle and choke each other. There will be blood, sweat and concussions. Welcome to the Ultimate ...

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 ...

Ancient Greek Athletics By Stephen G. Miller (Yale University Press, 288 pp., $35) Click here to purchase the book. Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit By John H. Herrmann Jr.

Of the sports in the ancient Olympics, there is one that remains absent from the modern Olympics: Pankration. Pankration, which means “all strength”, is a combat sport which is a combination of boxing ...

People back then loved competition and entertainment just as much as we do today. But their idea of "sports" might leave you scratching your head. We can't talk about strange ancient sports without ...