Thermopyle Team Combat channel https://www.youtube.com/@UCT0EBcUlDDYsGHDrzat5EVw Nowadays the martial arts segment on YouTube is filled with a variety of freak fights and freak formats of all stripes. And amidst all this clownery, I somehow forgot that a little more than four years ago in Russia a truly new, cool, hair-raising and very spectacular format of martial arts was born. Unfortunately, the matter was limited to one single tournament, although the potential of these competitions, in my opinion, was simply cosmic. On December 1, 2018, the Thermopyle Team Combat team fighting tournament, popularly dubbed Sparta after the name of the feature film of the same name, took place in St. Petersburg. The creators of the new sport were the legendary fighter and promoter Nikolai Kudryashov, who was at the forefront of the creation of M-1 and mixed martial arts in our country back in the 90s, and businessman Daniel Litvinsky. Eight teams from different cities competed that evening in the Gr