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The wrestlers in the Cornish style both wear jackets enabling them to gain better grips. HISTORY Cornish wrestling has a long history, and Geoffrey Of Monmouth suggests '' Historia Regum Britanniae '', of c. 1139 that Corineus wrestled a Cornish giant, Gogmagog . Cornish wrestlers was more reliably reported to have fought at the Battle Of Agincourt in 1415 . The Cornish men who went into battle held a banner of two Cornish Wraslters in a hitch. Cornish and Breton wrestlers have long taken part in inter-Celtic matches since at least 1402 and these still occasionally continue. The Cornish Wrestling Association was formed in 1923 . Ashley Cawley (son of Gerry Cawley, a well known Cornish Wrestler) is the current (2005) Heavy Weight Champion of Cornwall. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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