Welcome to CWWA
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- Sat, 27th July 2024 (1.30pm)Beetham Sports
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- Sat, 3rd August 2024 (1.00pm)Cockermouth Show
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- Sat, 3rd August 2024 (2.30pm)Powburn Show
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- Sun, 4th August 2024 (12.30pm)Gilsland Show
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- Wed, 7th August 2024 (1.30pm)Cartmel Show
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- Thu, 8th August 2024 (11.30am)Appleby Show
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- Sat, 10th August 2024 (11.45am)Dalston Show
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- Sat, 10th August 2024Slaley Show
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- Sun, 11th August 2024 (2.30pm)Forestburngate, Simonside Country Fair
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For centuries, backhold wrestling has gripped the hearts of wrestlers and spectators alike.
The fascination of man-against-man combat with its simple rules and subtle mix of speed, strength, agility, skill and determination is there to see in the grass rings at sports meetings and agricultural shows throughout the Northern Counties of England and the Borders of Scotland.
Against all odds, Cumberland and Westmorland Style wrestling survives as a skillful and vigorous sport, and for more than two centuries has been well documented by newspapers and specialised books, then more recently on social media and now this website.
Wrestling itself scarcely changes. If a wrestler from today's rings could travel back in time for two hundred years, he would be perfectly at home in a wrestling ring, for the same 'chips' are used; many of the technical terms (buttocks, hipes and dog falls) are the same, and the judges have the same problems too, such as ensuring that the wrestlers begin with an equal hold.