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Puroresu Main article: Japanese professional wrestling, also known as puroresu, is also treated more as a than the style of wrestling common in.

His foe was probably on his back given the descriptions about the legs from his opponent.

A blow from Dioxippus' club shattered the other's spear, whereupon Coragus tried to draw his sword from its scabbard, only to have Dioxippus grab the Macedonian's sword-arm with his left hand while with his right he threw Coragus off-balance and footswept him to the ground.

Lazaros, founder of modern Pankration Athlima, the technical examination programma, the endyma, the shape of the Palaestra and the terminology of Pankration Athlima, in 2010 the sport was accepted by FILA, known today as , which governs the Olympic wrestling codes, as an associated discipline and a "form of modern Mixed Martial Art.

This statue is a Roman copy of a lost Greek original, circa 3rd Century B.

Heave from a waist lock following a sprawl [ ] The opponents are facing in opposite directions with the athlete at a higher level, over the back of his opponent.

Kicks above the stomach were never attempted when standing, and kicks to the chest or head were done only to a grounded competitor.

Greco-Roman wrestling and contemporary freestyle wrestling were soon regulated in formal competitions, in part resulting from the rise of and.

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The ground version would be winning by submitting your opponent.

Which is very similar to the modern mixed martial arts.

The feats of the ancient pankratiasts became legendary in the annals of Greek athletics.