swap_horiz Pahlavani 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

2

Greek Wrestling

Greek wrestling, known as pale, is a historic combat sport originating in ancient Greece. It was a key element of the or...

Historic Olympic Ancient Grappling

8.3 Great

3

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

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

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Mud Wrestling

Mud Wrestling is wrestling in mud or a mud pit, notable as a modern spectacle after an Akron, Ohio women's professional...

Traditional Folk Grappling Wrestling

4.8 Poor