swap_horiz Aba Wrestling Alternatives

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Oil Wrestling

Oil Wrestling is Turkey's national style, using olive oil and leather kisbet trousers; the Kirkpinar tournament near Edi...

Traditional Festival Turkish Grappling

7.7 Good

2

Kushti

Kushti is a traditional form of mud wrestling practiced in India where athletes train in specific dirt pits called akhar...

Indian Traditional Grappling Wrestling

7.2 Good

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Lutte Traditionnelle

Lutte Traditionnelle is West African folk wrestling, known as Laamb in Senegal and Kokawa in Hausa areas, with Francopho...

Traditional Folk African Grappling

7.2 Good

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Kuresh

Kuresh is a Central Asian belt-wrestling family in which athletes grip towels or belts; its Uzbek kurash code has held w...

Traditional Belt Grappling Throws

7.1 Good

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Belt Wrestling

Belt Wrestling is a broad family of grappling styles in which opponents grip a belt, towel, or girdle; Alysh was interna...

Traditional Belt Grappling Throws

7.1 Good

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Karakucak Wrestling

Karakucak Wrestling is a Turkish folk style sanctioned nationwide, fought on grass in canvas trousers and distinguished...

Traditional Folk Turkish Grappling

6.8 Fair

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Kyrgyz Kurosh

Kyrgyz Kurosh is a Kyrgyz form of kuresh belt wrestling, contested at World Nomad Games events as part of Central Asian...

Traditional Belt Grappling Throws

6.7 Fair

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Gatta Gusthi

Gatta Gusthi is Kerala's submission wrestling style in India, notable for beach or sand-ground bouts in a godha and phay...

Indian Traditional Folk Grappling

6.7 Fair

9

Shima Wrestling

Shima Wrestling is Okinawa's local sumo style, notable for festival bouts on sand where victory comes by putting the opp...

Traditional Folk Grappling Wrestling

6.7 Fair

10

Pahlavani

Pahlavani is a traditional Iranian martial art and physical training system rooted in Zurkhaneh, blending wrestling, cal...

Traditional Iranian Grappling Wrestling

6.5 Fair

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Turkish Oil Wrestling

Turkish Oil Wrestling is a historic national sport in Turkey where competitors grapple while coated entirely in olive oi...

Traditional Turkish Grappling Oil

6.2 Fair

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Leonese Wrestling

Leonese Wrestling, or aluche, is a belt-wrestling style from Spain's Province of Leon, fought in a 12 to 18 meter circle...

Spanish Traditional Belt Grappling

6.2 Fair

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Malakhra

Malakhra is a Sindhi belt-wrestling style of Pakistan in which wrestlers grip a waist cloth; it is treated as Sindh's pr...

Traditional Belt Grappling Wrestling

6.2 Fair

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Boli Khela

Boli Khela is a Bengali wrestling tradition from Chittagong, Bangladesh, associated with merchant Abdul Jabbar Saodagar...

Traditional Folk Grappling Wrestling

6.0 Fair

15

Ristynes

Ristynes is a Lithuanian folk wrestling tradition, popular from the mid-19th to early 20th century and revived in demons...

Traditional Folk Grappling Wrestling

6.0 Fair

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Mukna

Mukna is a Meitei folk wrestling style from Manipur, India, traditionally played on the last day of the Lai Haraoba fest...

Traditional Folk Grappling Wrestling

5.9 Mediocre

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Inbuan Wrestling

Inbuan Wrestling is a Mizo folk wrestling style from Mizoram, India; tradition places its preservation at Dungtlang vill...

Traditional Folk Grappling Wrestling

5.8 Mediocre

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Barróg

Barrog is an Irish backhold wrestling style whose name means hug; comparable clinches appear in Irish carvings from the...

Traditional Folk Irish Grappling

5.6 Mediocre

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Huka-huka

Huka-huka is an Indigenous Brazilian wrestling style of the Xingu peoples of Mato Grosso, performed ritually during the...

Traditional Indigenous Brazilian Grappling

5.5 Mediocre

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Buno

Buno is a traditional Filipino grappling and wrestling system notable for its integration with weapon-based martial arts...

Traditional Folk Grappling Filipino

5.4 Mediocre