swap_horiz Khapsagay Alternatives

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Professional Sumo

Professional sumo is a traditional Japanese combat sport involving two rikishi wrestlers competing within a circular rin...

Professional Traditional Japanese Grappling

8.6 Great

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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

3

Mongolian Wrestling (Bökh)

Mongolian Wrestling, or Bökh, is a traditional grappling sport central to Mongolia's Naadam festival where a competitor...

Traditional Upright Grappling Mongolian

7.5 Good

4

Bokh

Bokh is Mongolian folk wrestling, one of Naadam's Three Manly Games, where touching the ground with more than a foot or...

Traditional Grappling Throws Mongolian

7.5 Good

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Pahlavani Wrestling

Pahlavani Wrestling is Iran's koshti pahlavani, the wrestling core of zurkhaneh athletics, which UNESCO listed as herita...

Historic Traditional Iranian Grappling

7.3 Good

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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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Pehlwani

Pehlwani is a South Asian combat sport heavily influenced by Persian Varzesh-e Pahlavani, combining traditional grapplin...

Indian Traditional South Asian Grappling

7.2 Good

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Sport Jujutsu

Sport Jujutsu is a modern competitive format derived from traditional Japanese martial arts, notable for blending striki...

Traditional Japanese Sport Submission

7.2 Good

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Kazakh Kures

Kazakh Kures is Kazakhstan's standing folk wrestling style; UNESCO listed Kuresi in Kazakhstan as intangible cultural he...

Traditional Grappling Throws Kazakh

7.2 Good

10

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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Jacket Wrestling

Jacket Wrestling is a family of belt-and-jacket grappling styles from Europe and Asia, notable because clothing grips de...

Traditional Folk Grappling Throws

7.1 Good

14

Shuai Jiao

Shuai Jiao is a traditional Chinese jacket wrestling style with roots tracing back over four thousand years, focusing he...

Traditional Chinese Grappling Throws

7.0 Good

15

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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Backhold Wrestling

Backhold Wrestling is a Scottish and North Country style in which wrestlers lock arms around the torso; a broken grip or...

Traditional Folk Grappling Throws

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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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

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Khuresh

Khuresh is a traditional Buryat-Mongolian wrestling style from Russia, distinguished by its rule where competitors lose...

Traditional Upright Grappling Siberian

5.7 Mediocre

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Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling

Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling is a traditional English backhold style practiced in Northern England where wrestle...

Traditional Folk English Upright

4.8 Poor