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5/17/2024, 6:10:03 AM
Historically accurate Pankration.
>Allowed to get out of chokeholds by bending/breaking your opponent's fingers or toes
>Allowed to strike the back of the head (or anywhere really)
>Allowed to strangle the throat with your hands
>In an odd turn of events, a pankration fighter named Arrhichion (Ἀρριχίων) of Phigalia won the pankration competition at the Olympic Games despite being dead. His opponent had locked him in a chokehold and Arrhichion, desperate to loosen it, broke his opponent's toe (some records say his ankle). The opponent nearly passed out from pain and submitted. As the referee raised Arrhichion's hand, it was discovered that he had died from the chokehold. His body was crowned with the olive wreath and returned to Phigaleia as a hero.[10]
>Allowed to get out of chokeholds by bending/breaking your opponent's fingers or toes
>Allowed to strike the back of the head (or anywhere really)
>Allowed to strangle the throat with your hands
>In an odd turn of events, a pankration fighter named Arrhichion (Ἀρριχίων) of Phigalia won the pankration competition at the Olympic Games despite being dead. His opponent had locked him in a chokehold and Arrhichion, desperate to loosen it, broke his opponent's toe (some records say his ankle). The opponent nearly passed out from pain and submitted. As the referee raised Arrhichion's hand, it was discovered that he had died from the chokehold. His body was crowned with the olive wreath and returned to Phigaleia as a hero.[10]
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