Sentence examples for wrestling from high-quality English sources.

• (For weight classes, see freestyle wrestling.)

• Jean-Pierre Pouzade was only 15 when he stepped into the wrestling ring for the first time.

• The IOC grappled with its decision, but says wrestling can reapply as an “additional” sport.

• The programme chronicled the teenager’s home life with her wrestling-obsessed family and burgeoning wrestling career over a year.

• Loose wrestling in India dates to before 1500 bce.

• Wrestling can also be classified in terms of what is required to win.

• Jenji Kohan turns from Orange is the New Black to the big-haired, leotarded world of 80s women’s wrestling.

• Greco-Roman wrestling, style of wrestling practiced in Olympic and international amateur competition.

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• The wrestling promotion, originally known as Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling Enterprise), was started in 1933.

• International freestyle is loose wrestling that uses the Greco-Roman touch-fall instead of the pin-fall common to Anglo-American wrestling practice.

• From wrestling to private equity: Josh Harris, cofounder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management, credits wrestling for his success in finance.

• In England and Brittany a form of jacket wrestling commonly called Cornwall and Devon (see Cornish wrestling) survives from at least the 4th or 5th century.

• Later Mongolian invasions in the 13th century introduced Mongolian wrestling, which received royal patronage, and wrestling became the national sport of modern Iran.

• When wrestling company Titan Sports changed its name to the World Wrestling Federation it was drawn into a legal fight with another WWF, the World Wildlife Fund, that lasted 13 years.

• Ross speaks to wrestlers and writers, diving into the world of two of the UK's independent wrestling promotions - Progress Wrestling and Insane Championship Wrestling.

• The WWE Network streaming service airs live pay-per-view events like WWE's WrestleMania, along with a catalog of past matches from the likes of World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling.

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• In the second half of the 19th century, two wrestling styles developed that ultimately dominated international wrestling: Greco-Roman wrestling and catch-as-catch-can, or freestyle wrestling.

• In the 20th century a third international style of wrestling, sambo, a kind of jacket wrestling, was created by Anatoly Kharlampiev of the Soviet Union and others after a study of various traditional wrestling styles.

• "We are wrestling with economic and financial challenges today as part of the UK and most other countries are wrestling with these factors and of course an independent Scotland would have to operate sustainable public finances and invest in the economy.

• Freestyle wrestling, one of three styles of wrestling used in international amateur competition (the others are Greco-Roman wrestling and sambo) under supervision of the Fédération Internationale de Lutte Amateur (International Amateur Wrestling Federation).