Have you ever been cooking and spill olive oil on your hands?

Just gets everywhere, done it? It's all slippery and slimy and

It smells quite nice though.

It's one thing to get it on your hands,

but imagine getting it over your entire body.

You're going to be a big old slippery, slimy, nice smelling mess, aren't you?

Be really handy if actually, say, somebody wanted to take you to the ground.

For whatever reason, it'd be really handy to be covered in slippery, slimy, nice smelling olive oil

because they'd really struggle to get a purchase on you.

Imagine, imagine that. they'd really struggle to get a purchase on you.

Imagine that.

This is a really creepy start, isn't it?

Today on wrestling curiosities, I'm going to tell you about a legendary strand

of professional wrestling. Not only that, but it's the oldest

sporting tradition of all time and it is still very actively practiced today. Grease me up and let me slide into your ears.

This is the best stuff I've ever written.

Welcome to the world of Turkish oil wrestling.

The history of grappling whilst oiled up

actually goes all the way back to 2650 PC a tiny bronze statue depicting men with

strong physiques holding vessels of oil above their heads was excavated near the Chafagi temple.

This was the first evidence that the Babylonians bloody loved a bit of wrestling.

Now there's many different disciplines when it comes to oil wrestling, but today we are focusing on the national

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