swap_horiz Kuresh Alternatives

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Greco-Roman Wrestling

Greco-Roman wrestling is an ancient combat sport rooted in European traditions. It’s notable for its focus on upper-body...

European Olympic Grappling Throws

9.4 Excellent

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Sport Sambo

Sport Sambo is a combat sport originating from Russia. It combines throws, takedowns, and grappling techniques with spec...

Russian Submission Grappling Throws

8.8 Great

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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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Para Judo

Para Judo is a modified version of judo designed specifically for athletes with visual impairments. It’s notable as one...

Adaptive Paralympic Grappling Throws

8.2 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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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Aba Wrestling

Aba Wrestling is a Turkish jacket-wrestling style of southern Turkey, especially Hatay, named for the aba garment grippe...

Traditional Belt Turkish Grappling

6.4 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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Kokh

Kokh is Armenia's national folk wrestling, known since the early Middle Ages and often performed with folk music before...

Traditional Folk Grappling Armenian

6.1 Fair

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Devon Wrestling

Devon Wrestling is a Devonshire jacket-wrestling style from England, notable for 19th-century bouts that allowed hard-so...

Traditional English Grappling Kicking

5.4 Mediocre

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Aikido (competition shiai)

Aikido competition shiai, primarily developed by Kenji Tomiki in the 20th century, is notable for safely adapting the no...

Traditional Japanese Grappling Throws

4.2 Poor