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Turkish Oil Wrestling -- Life is stranger than fiction

submitted by taranimator

1 decade 2 years 9 months 2 weeks ago

Wearing only leather pants, wrestlers douse each other in olive oil. Competitors grab hold of handles on the inside of the opponent's pants.

Turkey's national sport boasts the world's oldest continuously running sporting competition held since 1362. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_wrestling

10 Comments

This might need an NSFW tag. Not that it is, but should your boss walk in at an awkward moment...

Sausage fest.

WHoaaaa Nelly! Look at'em go at @1:33!

By the way this is very reminiscent of traditional Mongolian wrestling, especially with the ceremonial march raising hands in the air. The wrestling also reminds me of Swiss and Korean folk wrestling, where rules specify both contestants wear a specially made pants. While in Greco-Roman wresting traditions no such ceremonial marching or special gears exist.

Mongolian:
http://youtu.be/l31TwwmQPKs

Swiss:
http://youtu.be/tpLWG4fvVPs

Korean:
http://youtu.be/tpLWG4fvVPs

i first heard about this sport years ago, from this flickr photo set

http://www.flickr.com/photos/istanbulmike/sets/72157594192525043/

holy homoeroticism, fagman!

Porksandwich says...

Is it wrestling or hands down the pants prize quest?

Looks like some sort of weird public courting ritual...especially with the crotch area pants grabs and the dismissive slap.

I can't believe a sport this touchy-feely is from uber-macho, conservative Turkey.

There's a Turkish oil wrestler in the new Street Fighter game.

His super moves are awesome

Moving this video to taranimator's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

>> ^jmzero:

There's a Turkish oil wrestler in the new Street Fighter game.
His super moves are awesome

http://youtu.be/-SPKxgzSAhk

@ 0:53. Jeeeessus christ

I'd rather see camel boxing.

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