Was eye-gouging allowed in the Pankration in Ancient Greece or Rome?

Question

I have read one report say that the origin of the phrase "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" comes from Ancient Rome or Greece (because of there being some rule that anything goes except eye-gouging which gets you immediately disqualified). Yet at the same time i have also read in other places that everything and anything was allowed in the Pankration, just so long as it stopped short of blatant brutality, thats all. So what is it actually?

Answer 1

The frase you mention doesnt exist in Greek.
If you have any information different please provide so we can verify it.
Pankration was one of the forms of the Greek fight.The term comes from the Greek words "pan" ( "all") and "kratos" ( "strength" or "power"). It had numerous forms such as "kato pankration", in which the athletes could fall to the ground and continue the match, and "ano pankration", in which athletes had to remain standing throughout the match. Pankration, as practiced in the ancient world, combined elements of both boxing "pygme/pygmachia" and wrestling "pale" to create a broad fighting sport similar to today's mixed martial arts. A match was won by submission of the opponent or if the opponent was incapacitated. A contestant could signal submission by raising his hand, but sometimes the only form of submission was unconsciousness or death.
There were only two rules: contestants were not allowed to gouge eyes or to bite.
Remember that this sport was extremely brutal.

Answer 2

Apparently, there were only two things forbidden in Pankration: gouging eyes and biting.
Still, to track back the origin of the phrase "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" to Ancient Rome or Greece would not be easy. I am not aware of a tradition of that saying in any language other than English.