It is a strange quirk of the sport of wrestling that wrestlers, big and beefy as they may be, must carry a hanky at all times - a requirement brought in long ago when opponents had to mop up the odd pool of blood.
Blood is drawn no longer.
Wrestlers must now have manicured fingernails, short or tied-back hair, and their beards must be well established and growing strong by the time they reach the wrestling mat. Wrestling is an ancient art, if art it is. Egyptian wall paintings some 5,000 years old depict the first bouts, while the first ancient Games of 776 BC included the sport. In the modern era, wrestlers have been known to go to extreme lengths to win. Beyond abstention from the common pleasures of life, there was Iva Johansson, a Swedish policeman, in Los Angeles in 1932.