Up And Down Wrestling

2021-09-28

Illegal fights! Bar Brawls! Death and disability! And... a pair of wooden clogs? Join Nick and Chango as they explore Catch wrestling's evil bastard cousin, Up and Down Wrestling! Primary Source: The Story of Catch: The Story of Lancashire Catch as Catch Can Wrestling: First Fifty Years 1820-1870, by Ruslan C Pashayev Purring and Parring: The Mysterious History of Clog Fighting. by Helen Carter. https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/clog-fighting-oldham/ Image used with permission of art...

Illegal fights! Bar Brawls! Death and disability! And... a pair of wooden clogs?

Join Nick and Chango as they explore Catch wrestling's evil bastard cousin, Up and Down Wrestling!

Primary Source: The Story of Catch: The Story of Lancashire Catch as Catch Can Wrestling: First Fifty Years 1820-1870, by Ruslan C Pashayev

Purring and Parring: The Mysterious History of Clog Fighting.

by Helen Carter. https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/clog-fighting-oldham/

Image used with permission of artist, Anna FC Smith

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