Mike Chapman has spent more than 40 years writing about the sport of wrestling on various levels and has been named National Wrestling Writer of the Year in amateur wrestling five times. He created WIN magazine, the amateur sport's top publication, in 1995, and has written over 600 columns on wrestling. He is the author of 19 books, 13 of them about wrestling. He is the founder and executive director of the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute and Museum in Waterloo, Iowa, a facility that is dedicated to preserving the history of amateur and professional wrestling.