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New Evidence Suggests Ancient Wrestling Was Also Fixed

April 18, 2014 | Posted by Joseph Lee

Fox News reports that a Greek document has been translated and reveals that a wrestling match in the year 267 AD was fixed.

The contract involved two teenagers who had the final match in a series of games in Egypt. The contract had the father of one of the teenagers pay a bribe to the gaurantors (trainers) of the other wrestler. The loser would fall three times and yield to get “three thousand eight hundred drachmas of silver of old coinage.”

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