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Joel Hicks wins sixth world gravy wrestling championship
Aug 15, 2024
Joel Hicks defends his title at the World Gravy Wrestling Championships, winning his sixth crown. The event, supporting East Lancashire Hospice, brings together the community for a fun and charitable cause.
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My name's Joel Hicks and I'm a five-time winner of the World Great Wrestling Championships
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and I'm also last year's winner so I'm here to defend my crown. Having a Guinness World Records title, what can I say about that? Well, when I first started
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gravy wrestling around 10 years ago, it's the last thing that I ever thought I'd be honoured with
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Quite something that will probably go with me for the day that I die, I'll always have that. And so that's really sweet. Whether it's a talent, I don't know. Let your viewers be the judge
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Every year I come as a different personality, a different persona. This year I'm here as the
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bearded lady. I've got a few tricks up my skirt but I can't really tell you them just now
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you just have to wait and see what happens. It's great for me personally, you know, but more for
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events like the World Great Wrestling Championships. The guys that run this and put this event on
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they deserve all the credit. They're doing this, organising it all year round to put on this one
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day. Me as a contestant, I come along and do my bit, but it's those guys that really deserve all
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the credit. And the money we raise obviously goes to East Lancashire Hospice. And what started out
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as basically just a few guys wrestling in gravy outside a supermarket, shoppers looking on what
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on earth was going on. We're now raising around four or five thousand pounds every year by doing
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this. And it's just fantastic for the community, for East Lancashire Hospice and everybody that's
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involved in gravy wrestling. I didn't expect to take the title this year, I've got to say. Six
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world titles, slightly overwhelming, slightly embarrassed I have to say as well. There are some
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fantastic guys out there this year. I mean the quality of opposition, so to speak, it's better
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and better every year. Really good turnout for the ladies. I mean it's nearly six o'clock now
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we've just finished. Absolutely great turnout, the crowd are wonderful, the organisers put on
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another superb job. What can we say? It's just been absolutely a blast of a day, we've raised a lot of money
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