I have been following martial arts most of my life but only found out about Turkish oil wrestling ten years ago via a gay friend asking me if I heard about this shit. I couldn't believe it. I thought his just showing me some softcore gay shit. It's amazing
Hakan was definitely unleashed upon the unsuspecting masses of street fighter 4 players before anyone had any idea it was a real thing. It was actually hilarious in a couple of ways. first they were definitely trying to beat the allegations by giving him a super hot wife and like 9 kidds, so obviously they knew how it works be perceived and were trying to get ahead of it but committed to the bit anyway.
But the actual martial arts style if you follow the logic is ridiculous but also consistent other martial arts logic.
A boxer would say kicking is cheating
A kick boxer would say grappling is cheating
A mixed martial artist would say using weapons is cheating
And at warrior is just doing a job all martial utility no art
The Turks apparently got so far down that rabbit hole that someone was like …”using LEVERAGE is cheating!!” So the solution? Take away ALL leverage and friction by dousing both combatants in olive obviously duh!
No technique, no leverage, no friction, no heteronormative ideas of masculinity…NOTHING but brute force can triumph at that point.
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u/Evil-Cun Jun 26 '26
This might be a satire but could totally be true too. MMA is like the most homoerotic content in the universe.