At the village festival to defeat MMA masters, wrestlers hold buckets and sacks to catch the 'rain' of money

Chi Dong wrestling arena (Me Linh, Hanoi) is a famous place for traditional wrestling. The unique wrestling arena with a surrounding moat is always packed with villagers and tourists during the festival season on the occasion of the full moon of January every year.

This is also a locality with a wrestling tradition with a club that trains athletes from a young age, with coaches who were national athletes and champions.

To get the ideal seats, people have to come and fight for seats about 2 hours in advance. As the day goes on, there are more and more interesting matches with the participation of famous wrestlers.

The slow people had to jostle in another corner to watch the wrestling matches.

Former athlete Man Ba ​​Xuan - 13-time National Champion, 5 SEA Games gold medalist, 4th place in Asia - joined in the fun as the drummer.

Pham Van Nam (right), Vietnam's 56 kg MMA champion, tried his hand at village wrestling for the first time.

Even though he is a master in MMA, when entering the village wrestling ring, Pham Van Nam is just a "rookie" compared to his opponent.

After 3 rounds with a total time of nearly 20 minutes, he was knocked down by professional wrestler Nguyen Xuan Lap.

Spectators directly give gifts to wrestlers by throwing money into the wrestling ring. This is one of the interesting features of village wrestling festivals in many localities.

Wrestlers always prepare their "tools" to make money when they go to the ring.

Money is stuffed in shoes or water bottles, cigarette packs... and thrown straight into the ring.

Wrestlers who are loved by many audiences can "pick up" 1-2 million VND after each match.

Wrestler Nguyen Xuan Lap - who won the gold medal at the 2024 Southeast Asian Wrestling Championship - left the wrestling ring carrying a sack of money.

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