Wrestling is believed to be the oldest form of human combat and one of the world’s oldest sports, with the oldest depiction of it dating back to 3,000 BC Sumeria. Some anthropologists suspect running may predate wrestling as a sport; others argue that although primitive people ran, to actually make a sport of running necessitates […]
Author Archives: Antonio Graceffo
Antonio Graceffo works as an economics researcher and university professor in China. He holds a PhD from Shanghai University of Sport Wushu Department where he wrote his dissertation “A Cross Cultural Comparison of Chinese and Western Wrestling” in Chinese. He is the author of 8 books, including Warrior Odyssey and The Monk from Brooklyn. He has fought professionally as a boxer and MMA fighter as well as fighting as an amateur in boxing, sanda and wrestling. He holds black belts in Cambodian Bokator, Filipino Kuntaw and Cambodian kick-boxing. He is pursuing a second PhD at Shanghai, specializing in US-China Trade, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and Trump-China economics.