The Ex-Fighters of Weifang, Part 2
Jul 23, 2019
4 minutes
BY ANTONIO GRACEFFO, PH.D.
WE REMINISCED about our training mates at Shanghai University of Sport and wondered what they were doing now. One of them, a judo major, told us he couldn’t graduate. He’d competed for three years but accumulated no academic credits. Someone had convinced him to open an MMA gym, but it was failing. China just doesn’t have enough people yet who have money and want to train in MMA, it seems.
Meanwhile, Zhengtong said he was struggling to get his own MMA career off the ground. Because there’s no money in judo or wrestling, MMA is the only option
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