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Jacket wrestling is a form ofwrestling and one of the oldest form ofsports that has been practiced in bothEurope andAsia going back many centuries.[citation needed] It generally involves two contestants wearing jackets and belts attempting totake each other down in order to pin their opponent. The method of combat has also been referred to as "belt-and-jacket wrestling", for its common use of a belt or sash in addition to or instead of a jacket.[citation needed]
The two most popular contested styles of jacket wrestling today areJudo andSambo.[citation needed]
Encyclopædia Britannica has stated that, "The three basic types of wrestling contest are the belt-and-jacket, catch-hold, and loose styles, all of which appear to have originated inantiquity. Belt-and-jacket styles of wrestling are those in which the clothing of the wrestlers provides the principal means of taking a grip on the opponent."[1]
Thomas A. Green and Joseph R. Svinth stated in 2010 that, it has been recorded as a method of combat as early as theMiddle Ages.[2] Scot Beekman stated in 2006 that, Jacket wrestling became especially popular inBritain, where different regions developed their own forms of jacket wrestling rules and combat.[3]
Celtic jacket wrestling styles (Cornish wrestling,Brollaidheacht andGouren) claim a common origin with references in the ancientbook of Leinster, referring to the sport being included in the Tailteann Games which date back to c1829 BC. Wrestling was featured in 1139’sHistoria Regum Britanniae, in which Geoffrey of Monmouth suggested that Corineus, the medieval legend, wrestled a Cornish giant namedGogmagog at Plymouth Hoe.
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