Explain to me why MMA is a new thing
Posted on: April 19, 2008 - 1:01am
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Explain to me why MMA is a new thing
I brought this up a long time ago and me and ajmarti82 and maybe Birdman (iamapacker at that time) had talked about it. MMA is more or less combining more than one fighting style and making one. So when the Greeks came up with Pankration 50,000,000,000,000 years ago did someone forget to write down that they had came up with it?
With submissions, more rules than the early UFC days and a combination of boxing, wrestling, and submissions how is it not called the true MMA?
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Wow you can tell I'm on some powerful meds lol I'm saying stuff over and over
EERS_1_Fan
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EERS were you picking berries in the woods again and washing them down with moonshine?
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LOL ......For real though how is this not the first mma? As a matter of fact it pretty much looks the same.
EERS_1_Fan
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Eers, great point. What kind of competition was that? Like you said, it looked pretty much like MMA...
Pankration
They started it in the Olympics in 648 BC
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration
I suppose the only real distinction is modern mma vs. traditional mma. modern mma is fought in a cage or ring rather than a mat and may have some slight rules variations. But, it's all the same from what I can tell...
Right .....They had more rules than the early UFC days. The ref had a stick to enforce the rules, that is funny. I would have loved to seen the ref wack Penn when he forgot to let go of Jens Pulver...lol
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sticks would be awesome. babalu would have gotten the stick too. i miss iamapacker...but he was for the packers message board...
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How about using the stick to force more action...maybe a taser at the end of the stick...
Those were the two I was thinking of...But with Penn's fight coming up I picked him lol
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Pankration was rumored to be in the olympics at one point a few years ago.
And Bruce Lee was one of the early people speaking about the concept of 'MMA'... he believed and taught there was no true 'superior' martial art but that you had to study many in order to become a true Martial Artist.
"Pankration was rumored to be in the olympics at one point a few years ago. "
they talked about putting it back in the modern Olympics........It was in the Olympics for many years like a few thousand years ago.
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