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Up And Down Wrestling
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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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