Anonymous at Fri, 5 Jul 2024 02:48:02 UTC No. 203167
Why is Weird Al punching Saddam Hussein?
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Jul 2024 03:01:36 UTC No. 203168
The term mixed martial arts is referring to a format in which different martial arts can compete against each other
It does not mean mixing different martial arts together in a blender to make some homogeneous slurry
People who don't know this distinction should be disregarded
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Jul 2024 07:38:42 UTC No. 203177
>>203167
Relax, it's just a pankration bro.
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Jul 2024 11:34:50 UTC No. 203182
>>203168
How do you know to what term "mixed martial arts" is reffering?
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Jul 2024 13:43:15 UTC No. 203188
>>203156
Modern day pankration has nothing to do with the original outside of the name.
Anonymous at Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:02:21 UTC No. 208484
>>203168
let's not deny that most of them evolve and adopt from the other arts if advantage is to follow
Anonymous at Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:20:28 UTC No. 208504
>let's combine boxing and wrestling
the greeks figured out martial arts millenia ago
Anonymous at Sun, 25 Aug 2024 06:50:09 UTC No. 209021
>>203156
Reminder that even an UFC gatekeeper would beat the shit out of the manlet pankrationistiers back in Ancient Greece.
Anonymous at Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:50:15 UTC No. 209063
>>209021
A UFC guy would get one in some kind of grapple and then immediately lose when he gets his fingers twisted and broken.
>Hey that's against the rules!
he shouts as the manlet mounts him.
Anonymous at Sat, 31 Aug 2024 06:11:55 UTC No. 209481
>>209021
You delude yourself, compared to ancient man we are in every way their inferiors. Physically, spiritually and in intellect they exceed us in every way. I give example: our elite athletes, our special forces operators, are nothing compared to them. We find Paleolithic bones, the femur, so robust that nothing from our runners or power-lifters equals. These men were capable of sustained speeds unimaginable today. You know about Marathon, but not the whole story. The real physical feat wasn’t just the soldier who ran the twenty miles or so back to Athens to warn the people. The entire army ranged on the beach in heavy bronze armor, facing the enemy. After the Persians landed, the Greeks charged them from more than a mile away. The Persians were amazed at the line of gleaming bronze running toward them and their war cry. These men ran a mile in very heavy armor and also carried six-foot-plus ashen spear-spike. They drove the invaders into the sea. And right after this great effort they marched, still in armor, all the way back to Athens without pause, to prevent the Persians from making an opportune landing there. I don’t think any special military units would be able to equal this feat today, and these were the average citizens of Athens.
Anonymous at Sat, 31 Aug 2024 23:01:18 UTC No. 209543
>>203188
>>208776
>implying any & all mma doesn't end up looking the same excluding differences in rules
I really doubt there were homophobic closeted fags bitching about grappling being gay like we have now. Ancient pankration likely looked close to what the modern does, just with more clothes & rules.
>>208504
If I had a time machine, like 80% of my usage would be watching legendary old fights & battles.
>>209481
You're retarded. They were all malnourished dyels and pretty much everything from antiquity has been grossly exaggerated. Why do you think the sculpture/art style was called idealism?
Anonymous at Sun, 1 Sep 2024 21:30:12 UTC No. 209626
>>209543
Maybe not with the Greeks. Their way of life sort of required physically strong soldier-citizens to maintain it, their obsession with fitness probably came that way around; it was important practically speaking so they became obsessed with it aesthetically as well. Athens was somewhat like that but the Spartans really paint that picture, they used such huge amounts of slaves, each soldier-citizen had to be the fighting equal of many slaves to maintain that order.