Historians Discover Ancient Wrestling Was Fixed Too!

A story on the FOX News website reports that historians have translated an ancient document which has revealed that a wrestling match in the year A.D. 267 was fixed.

"In the contract, the father of a wrestler named Nicantinous agrees to pay a bribe to the guarantors (likely the trainers) of another wrestler named Demetrius...

...The contract stipulates that Demetrius "when competing in the competition for the boy [wrestlers], to fall three times and yield," and in return would receive "three thousand eight hundred drachmas of silver of old coinage "

This is the first time that a contract of this kind has been found in the ancient world. 

To read more about this fascinating find click here.