Aalijah Pineda is like most 10-year-old girls. She likes to draw and color. One of her favorite hobbies is playing board games; she likes Monopoly the most. She watches the Disney Channel with her ...

Four ASU students practice a once-deadly move in the Student Recreation Center. Photo by Taylor Costello The evening starts rather quietly. Situated in a modestly sized gym on the second floor of the ...

While jabbing at punching bags, facing off with their trainers and pinning their partners down, students still feel a sense of community at ASU's American Pankration club. With classes ranging from ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Dyllan “Demolition” Davis and Karter “Chaos” Crosby will compete in a ...

(PRESS RELEASE) -- The 2011 United States Pankration National Championships and World Team Trails will determine the US National Team for the 2011 FILA World Championships of Pankration and MMA. This ...

The rules of pankration allowed for any kind of attack except biting and gouging. In this scene, the pankratiast uses his bare hands to punch his opponent, who throws up his left arm to protect ...

In an effort to move away from unsanctioned events involving adolescents, the California State Athletic Commission approved the United States Fight League to oversee and regulate youth Pankration ...

The grandfather of modern Mixed Martial Arts, known as Pankration, was created over 2,500 years ago. Until the late 19th century, Pankration was actually an Olympic sport. While one can find many ...

Current MMA is a modified form of the pankration that the ancient Greeks practiced (the first article of this series explores this point more fully). Thus it is fitting that the man responsible for ...

Millennia before modern-day military recruiters talked up potential soldiers in shopping malls or put up posters, one Roman city took a rather different approach to recruiting soldiers for the emperor ...