A folk wrestling style is any traditional style of wrestling, which may or may not be codified as a modern sport. Most cultures have developed regional...
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Henry VIII of England in a wrestling match. The Lancashire style of folk wrestling may have formed the basis for Catch wrestling, also known as "catch as...
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Oil wrestling (Turkish: Yağlı güreş), also called grease wrestling, is a traditional Turkish sport where participants, called pehlivan (wrestlers) or...
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Wrestling is one of the oldest sports in India. Several regional styles and variations in folk wrestling exists in the country. Indian wrestlers have won...
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Catch wrestling (originally catch-as-catch-can) is an English style of wrestling with looser rules than forms like Greco-Roman wrestling. For example,...
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martial arts can be categorized as Folk wrestling (see the separate article), although in some cases a folk wrestling style and a modern combat sport may...
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Lancashire wrestling, commonly called Lancashire catch-as-catch-can or Lancashire style, is a folk wrestling style that originated in the historic county...
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luta livre (Brazilian), and folk wrestling (various). Traditional styles of wrestling exist in most cultures; wrestling can be considered a cultural...
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wrestling may be classified in various ways, such as: Loose style wrestling Belt wrestling Jacket wrestling Category:Grappling hold Cornish wrestling...
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prehistoric times. Many traditional forms survive, grouped under the term folk wrestling. More formal systems have been codified in various forms of martial...
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styles of folk wrestling (known colloquially as çayır güreşi, or "meadow wrestling", because bouts are held on grass fields), olympic wrestling (known colloquially...
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Canarian Wrestling is a form of folk wrestling, originally from the Canary Islands, where it is known as Lucha Canaria. Wrestlers start in the middle of...
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Mongolian wrestling, known as Bökh (Mongolian script: ᠪᠥᠬᠡ; Mongolian Cyrillic: Бөх or Үндэсний бөх), is the folk wrestling style of Mongols in Mongolia...
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Greco-Roman wrestling Grappling/submission wrestling Beach wrestling Pankration athlima Alysh/belt wrestling Traditional/folk wrestling. In 2013, the...
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Ssireum (redirect from Korean sumo wrestling)
Ssireum (Korean: 씨름; Korean pronunciation: [ɕ͈iɾɯm]) or Korean wrestling is a folk wrestling style and traditional national sport of Korea that began in...
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Catch Wrestling and Judo, divided between Esportivo (Sports) and Vale Tudo (Anything goes) styles Huka-huka, a form of indigenous folk wrestling practiced...
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Glíma (redirect from Icelandic wrestling)
Finland. Belt wrestling Collar-and-elbow Cornish wrestling Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling Folk wrestling Gouren Khuresh Mongolian wrestling Schwingen...
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Senegalese wrestling (Njom in Serer, Lutte sénégalaise or simply Lutte avec frappe in French, Làmb in Wolof, Siɲɛta in Bambara) is a type of folk wrestling traditionally...
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Jacket wrestling is a form of wrestling and one of the oldest form of sports that has been practiced in both Europe and Asia going back many centuries...
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American religious leader of a former Branch Davidian sect Köräş, various folk wrestling styles of Central Asia Koreshi, a surname Cyrus (disambiguation) Koreshk...
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Schwingen (redirect from Swiss wrestling)
Swiss wrestling (French lutte Suisse) and natively (and colloquially) as Hosenlupf (Swiss German for "breeches-lifting"), is a style of folk wrestling native...
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Combat Hopak includes techniques of traditional Ukrainian folk fist fighting, folk wrestling, Cossack sabre fencing, and Cossack war dances like the Hopak...
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Tagalog.) is a system of Filipino wrestling like Dumog. Harimaw Buno, formerly Harimaw Lumad (King of Tiger Wrestling), is a style of Buno used by the...
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Kurash (redirect from Tatar wrestling)
and similar variants) refers to a number of folk wrestling styles practiced in Central Asia. Köräş wrestlers (Turkish:GüreşTatar: көрәшчеләр, köräşçelär;...
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Ringen (category Wrestling in Germany)
living folk wrestling styles in Europe are fought until a throw is completed. The lack of detailed ground wrestling in the medieval wrestling treatises...
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later wrestled each other naked. It is speculated that many styles of European folk wrestling may have spurred the origins of Greco-Roman wrestling. According...
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traditions of folk wrestling, emerging in the form of two styles of regulated competitive sport, "freestyle" and "Greco-Roman" wrestling (based on British...
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Greek wrestling (‹See Tfd›Greek: πάλη, translit. pálē), also known as Ancient Greek wrestling and Pále (πάλη), was the most popular organized sport in...
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professional wrestling in the United Kingdom spans over one hundred years. After a brief spell of popularity for Greco Roman professional wrestling during the...
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freestyle wrestling is often referred to as the "first sport" of Iran. Women's wrestling is less popular in Iran and Iranian women wrestlers have international...
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