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Greco Roman and Catch as Catch Can, epic battles and Carny scams. Why were there two Strangler Lewises? What’s a Hippodrome? Find out when you listen, learn, and party with Nick and Heidi Howitzer: The Pro Wrestling History Nerds!
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Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Illegal fights! Bar Brawls! Death and disability! And... a pair of wooden clogs?
Join Nick and Chango as they explore Catch wrestling's evil bastard cousin, Up and Down Wrestling!
Primary Source: The Story of Catch: The Story of Lancashire Catch as Catch Can Wrestling: First Fifty Years 1820-1870, by Ruslan C Pashayev
Purring and Parring: The Mysterious History of Clog Fighting.
by Helen Carter. https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/clog-fighting-oldham/
Image used with permission of artist, Anna FC Smith
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Clogs... with spikes. Yeeaaahhh... no thank you.
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
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