AFRICAN WARRIORS FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP

It’s well-documented that martial arts and combat sports have existed in Africa for millennia. Perhaps the most famous evidence of this facet of human history are the 4,000-year-old tomb paintings of wrestlers and other martial artists at an Egyptian site called Beni Hasan.

Although not as popular as the Asian arts, the fighting systems of Africa are still being handed down from generation to generation. Outside Africa and select parts of the world where Africans have settled en masse, few Western martial artists are even aware of their existence.

That, however, is beginning to change.

Enter Maxwell Kalu. Born in the United Kingdom to Nigerian parents, this dual citizen works as a public-relations executive in London. Unbeknownst to his associates, however, he’s trained in kickboxing and is intimately familiar with the indigenous style of wrestling that’s practiced in Nigeria.

Building on that base, Kalu created the African Warriors Fighting Championship. The