Talk:Folk wrestling
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The alphabetical listing of Folk Styles of wrestling lists Cumberland wrestling and Westmorland wrestling separately as though they were two distinct separate styles. This is erroneous. There is only one style of wrestling with these names and to this day it is called Cumberland-and-Westmorland-style wrestling. This in spite of the fact that in 1978 British Parliament abolished the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland and in their place created one county - Cumbria. 86.31.193.211 15:28, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Donald Black In fact, the current president of the Cumberland & Westmorland Wrestling Society is Roger Robson who arranges a full programme of wrestling every summer in Cumbria, Northumberland and into southern Scotland including the annual Grasmere sports day. You will notice in the article on British Folk Wrestling by Stephen ____? on a link page in the Wikipedia he refers more than once to the style correctly as Cumberland and Westmorland style wrestling. Stephen ____? fails to mention Scottish Backhold wrestling (President: Willie Baxter)who also compete at Grasmere.
Lancashire wrestling is synonymous with Catch-as-catch-can. This should be made clear in your alphabetical listing. (e.g. Catch-as-catch-can see Lancashire wrestling. Lancashire wrestling or catch-as-catch-can [Or vice versa])
86.31.193.211 00:45, 8 February 2007 (UTC)Donald Black (donald.black@virgin.net)
Donald, why didn't you make the corrections yersel'? Could you supply the website for Scottish Wrestling Bond? Does Inter-Celtic Wrestling Federation have a site?