What Do You Know About Wrestling?

It is a game of remote antiquity and was first time competed in Egypt and Greece. It is an individual combat in which competitors using only their bare hands, Endeavor to throw each other, is one of the most natural sport in the history of the sports and also one of the oldest in the history of sports.

It is practiced in many countries in Europe, U.S.A and in Asia in many different styles, in most of which the wrestlers are divided in to classes by weight . According to the international Amateur Wrestling Federation has prescribed the following weight classes to which the combatants or competitors are bound to conform:-

1- Fly weight -52 kilogram or 114 ½ lbs.
2- Bantam weight -57 kilogram or 125 ½ lbs.
3- Feather weight - 62 kilogram or 136 ½ lbs.
4- Light weight - 67 kilogram or 147 ½ lbs.
5- Welter weight - 73 kilogram or 160 ½ lbs.
6- Middle weight - 79 kilogram or 174 ½ lbs.
7- Light heavy weight - 87 kilogram or 191 ½ lbs.
8- Heavy weight - over 87 kilogram or 191 ½ lbs.

The size of mat where combatants performs is 6m by 6m and 10cm thick.
Duration of the game 3 periods of 3 minutes each and players are one each side.