Wrestling was first sport.
Let's wrestle the facts Footage of the first WWE episode Humankind has been wrestling since John Wreslteton got out of his cave and said to his tribe, "I have an idea." Ok, actually it's a bit more complicated. Wrestling had its roots in Ancient Greece, where it debuted in the first Omplyics but is believed to have been around since before that. This style of wrestling was very different from today. There were very few rules, which made matches a blood bath sometimes. Wrestling was a very popular sport in Ancient Greece and was a way of life for some men. A papyrus fragment, which is paper's ancestor, was found that had instructions on how to wrestle, and it's believed that it came from the 100 AD. If my math is correct that's... a lot of years. In France, there are famous cave paintings that show cavemen wrestling. Meaning that wrestling has existed since the stone age. We have no way to tell if they kept score or what happened when someone won. Wrestlin...