List of wrestling sports

Sambo
-Is Russian

Greco-roman wrestling
Freestyle wrestling
Collegiate wrestling

Sumo
-Is Japanese

Judo
-Is Japanese

Jiu jitsu
-Is Japanese
Brazilian jiu jitsu BJJ

Beach wrestling

Show wrestling
-Is fake, but dangerous and has interesting techniques


Folk wrestling styles:
UK:
 Devon
 Cornwall
 Westmorland styles.
 North Country styles
 Lancashire
 Catch wrestling, or Catch-as-catch-can,
 Backhold Wrestling,
 Cumberland
 Westmorland or Cumbrian Wrestling.
 -Is a form of Backhold Wrestling
 Scottish Backhold
 Cornish wrestling.
 -Is a form of jacket wrestling. It does not use groundwork. It is related to Breton Gouren wrestling.
 Devon wrestling
 Collar-and-elbow wrestling

Nordic countries:
 Glíma
 -Consists of three forms: Hryggtök, the Backhold Grip Brokartök or the Pant-and-belt Grip and Lausatök or Free-Grip
 Kragkast

Western Europe:
 Gouren
 Ranggeln
 Schwingen
 Calegon

Southern Europe:
Lucha leonesa
Lotta Campidanesa
Strumpa
-Also known as S'Istrumpa or Istrumpa

Eastern Europe:
 Trânta
 Narodno rvanje
 Pelivan

Northern Europe
 Pakištynes
 Ristynes

Asia:
 Yagli güres
 -Turkish oil wrestling
 Khuresh
 -Tuvan wrestling

Central Asia:
Mongolian wrestling:
 Bökh
 Buryat wrestling
 Bukh noololdoon
 -Western Mongolian wrestling
 Southern Mongolian wrestling
 -Üzemchin wrestling, jacket wrestling

Turkic wrestling
 Alysh
 -Kyrgyz belt wrestling
 Köräs
 -A Tatar wrestling style
 Kurash
 -An Uzbek wrestling style
 Khuresh
 -Traditional Tuvan jacket wrestling
 Küres
 -Traditional Kazakh jacket wrestling
 Gushtingiri
 -Traditional Tajik jacket wrestling.

East Asia:
China:
 Shuai Jiao
 Die Jiao
 Qielixi
 Gi Ge
 -Chinese belt wrestling
 Ndrual Dluad
 Beiga
 -Chinese belt wrestling practiced by Tibetans


Sumo
 -Japanese
 Jujutsu
 -Japanese
 Ssireum
 -Korean belt wrestling contested in a sand pit
 Tegumi
 -Folk wrestling practiced in Okinawa.
 Mariwariwosu
 -Indigenous style of the Formosan Aboriginal people of Taiwan such as the Paiwan and Bunun tribes

Western Asia / Middle East:
 Gulesh
 -A traditional Azerbaijani wrestling style
 Koshti
 -Iranian wrestling
 Karakucak Güresi
 -A traditional Turkish wrestling style
 Oil wrestling
 khardiorda
 -Georgian
 rkena
 -Georgian
 Kokh
 -A traditional Armenian style of wrestling

South Asia:
Indian wrestling:
 Boli Khela
 Inbuan
 Malakhra or Malakhro
 Malla-yuddha
 Mukna is a form of
 -Folk wrestling from the north-east Indian state of Manipur.
 Pehlwani or Kushti
 -is the Mughal style of wrestling from India

Southeast:
 Naban
 -Burmese wrestling.
 Bok Cham Bab
 -A folk wrestling style from Cambodia.
 Benjang Gulat
 -A Sundanese form of wrestling
 V?t c? truy?n
 -Vietnamese wrestling
 Bultong
 Buno
 -Indigenous wrestling style of the Aeta people and the Mangyan peoples in Central & Southern Luzon of the Philippine archipelago
 Dumog

Americas:
 Luta Livre
 Collegiate Wrestling
 Lucha Libre
 -A Mexican style of wrestling
 Huka-huka
 -Done by the indigenous Yawalapiti people of the Amazon basin

Africa:
 Lucha canaria
 -Is a style of wrestling originating from the guanches ethny in the Canary Islands and was further developed by Spanish colonists
 Lutte Traditionnelle
 Tigel
 -Traditional wrestling of Ethiopia
 Grech
 -Traditional wrestling practiced in Tunisia

Oceania:
 Coreeda
 Epoo korio
 Boumwane
 -The national style of Kiribati
 Fagatua
 -Indigenous style of Tokelau
 Hokoko
 -The indigenous style of the Kanaka Maoli of the Hawaii Islands
 Mamau/ringa ringa
 -Is the indigenous style of wrestling of the Maori of New Zealand
 Moana
 Pi'i tauva
 Popoko
 -Is the indigenous style of wrestling of the Maori of the Cook Islands and it is an ancient traditional form of wrestling on the island of Pukapuka
 Taupiga
 -Is the indigenous style of wrestling of the Samoan Islands
 Uma, also known as Kulakula'i
 Veibo
 -The indigenous wrestling style of Fiji


By Jeffrey Koelewijn