This category contains links to resources associated with traditional wrestling styles that are commonly associated with a particular culture or region. Many of these wrestling forms date back thousands of years, and may or may not be practiced today.
Examples include but are not limited to:
Canary Style (Lucha Canaria)- Canary Islands
Cornish Wrestling - Cornwall, England
Cumberland and Westmoreland - England
Devonshire Wrestling - Devon, England
Glima - Vikings
Gouren (Breton Style) - France
Inner / Outer Mongolian - Mongolia
Kato pale (Ground Wrestling) - Greece
Laamb - Senegal
Oilwrestling - Turkey / Egypt
Orthia pale (Upright and Proper Wrestling) - Greece
Published in the (Volume 21, 1) May 2001 edition of The Sports Historian, entitled "Cumberland and Westmorland The Regular Re-Invention of Sporting Tradition and Identity: Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling c.1800-20001" by Mike Huggins, St Martin's C www.umist.ac.uk/../../../../TSH%2021-1/21(1)%20-%20art%202.htm