Across the globe , cultures have unparalleled private-enterprise forms of performative scrap . Japan celebrate the sumo wrestler . Brazilian capoeira electrical fuse saltation and martial arts . The sport of fencing evolved from swordfighting in eighteenth - century Italy . And in the English county of Lancashire , there ’s … well , there ’s bunce . And lots of it .
The annualWorld Gravy Wrestling Championshiptakes space the last Monday in August atThe Rose ' n ' Bowlpub in Stacksteads , a Greenwich Village about 20 miles ( 32 km ) north of Manchester . celebrate its 10th anniversary on Monday , Aug. 28 , 2017 , the event will see 20 man and 10 women take to the wrestling pool brim with the meaty condiment .
" In Britain , gravy is more than just a condiment ; it ’s liquid comfort,“writesBritish food journalist Felicity Cloake . " It brings together a Sunday roast like a loving cup of tea bring together a group of unknown – bestowing a console , savoury homeliness on everything it touches . "
And with the World Gravy Wrestling Championships , that gravy stir quite a lot .
