Historical Dictionary of Wrestling
Wrestling as a legitimate contest is one of the oldest, if not the oldest form of sport. There are cave drawings depicting memorable matches in France, which are over 15,000 years old. Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestling bouts where wrestlers are using most of the holds known to the modern-day sport. Wrestling was also a big part of ancient Greek literature and legend and historical records of sport indicate that wrestling under various sets of rules was contested at the Ancient Olympic Games in Greece. Today's modern wrestling is a form of sports entertainment in which highly skilled athletes enact wrestling matches in such a wa…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8108-7926-3
- EAN: 9780810879263
- Produktnummer: 23034496
- Verlag: Scarecrow Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 444 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'890 KB
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By John Grasso
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