Ch.+6b+Wrestling+-+Randy

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[|More information!!]. Basic Information: If two men are fighting over a girl, they wrestle each other in order to determine who receives the girl. All matches are fought inside of a circular ring. Boys bring and play music.

You may lose the fight if both feet are knocked in the air or you are forced out of the ring.

If no one seems to be winning the fight then the competitors are considered evenly matched.

Wrestling is last rite of passage for children to become men in their community.

Levels of Wrestling: Three to Six levels: Mkpufu Mgba (to start off-wrestle); these are the 15-17 years old. Isogu, whose members are between eighteen and twenty-eight in age. Ikpo, the highest and best-organized grade, composed of men some twenty-eight to thirty years old.

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Works Cited: http://www.icsn.co.uk/page.php?pageID=wrestling

http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!274143!0