Slideshow from the annual oil wrestling tournament held in Turkey.
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I thought that kırkpınar (Yağlı Güreş

was my own dirty little secret. :tongue: It's the most manly of sports, yet with the gayest appeal.
For those that don't know, kırkpınar is a national sport in Turkey, where there is a huge festival once a year and the end of June / beginning of July. It springs up from an old legend, where 2 soldiers wrestled (I think until total exhaustion, or possibly death) and is commemorated every year, near the same spot (the actual spot is supposedly in Greece). Picture unscripted WWE, with oil-covered men. OK, now picture them in tight leather capri pants. OK, now picture that one of the goals is to get your hand down the tightly-tied-at-the-waist-to-avoid-this-happening pants. To win, you have to either hold someone over your head, or down on their back, making them "see the stars" (face the sky in defeat), for three seconds. Since they're covered in oil, and wearing the also oiled leather pants, the only way to get a "grip", is to work your hand down the pants of the other guy, make a fist while it's in there (NO grabbing of anything is allowed, as it's "unmanly"), which effectively makes a handle with which to pic up the other guy, and throw him around.
Hmm, I'm breaking my own little rule. I didn't search, because now that I'm writing this, I think I may have done this little run-down a year or two ago. Either way, it's worth checking it out.