Igbo Wrestling There is a smaller society in Africa called the Igbo society. The igbo have lots of different traditions. Wrestling is an important part of the Igbo society and one of the traditions.. Wrestling is an important in the igbo society because of the kind of wrestling, why they wrestle, and of all of the significant wrestling events.
The wrestling that the Igbo people do isn’t like wrestling on t.v. There isn’t any chairs being slammed over people's heads, or people fighting for a briefcase of money. The wrestling the Igbo do is traditional wrestling. When they wrestle it’s to show off their skill and strength. Men and women can both wrestle, but in the past it was mostly, if not only, men. To wrestle the goal is to wrangle your opponent down on the mat and to have full control. When you win a wrestling match it proves to your village that you have amazing strength. If you win a match they you are to be looked as a higher up and respected.
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There are hieroglyphics and artwork that show that wrestling could have been played as long as 5000 years ago. Igbo people have been wrestling since the start of their society. Wrestling has never died out. People at first, used wrestling to settle disputes between villages. It was also used to try and gain respect from all of the others in your tribe. There is also another reason that they used for wrestling. The reason is to discover the right groom for a woman if many people want to marry her. Wrestling is used more as a sport in recent times. There is a woman's and a men's Igbo wrestling