Bring it on! Annual corny event challenges wrestling skills in slop<\/p>\n
By Brady Averill \/ Winona Daily News
\nA few pigs maybe went hungry on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Instead of filling troughs for livestock, 250 pounds of feed corn was thrown into a pit at a local park.<\/p>\n
Not for eating. For wrestling in.<\/p>\n
About 75 people attended the seventh annual cream corn wrestling tournament at Latsch Island on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Last year’s event drew complaints from the public, many of whom thought the corn was being wasted.<\/p>\n
“The wasting corn is just silly, “said organizer Robert Armstrong.<\/p>\n
If anything, he said, a few pigs went without food.<\/p>\n
Armstrong said people can wrestle in practically anything. Organizers could have chose pudding or mud.<\/p>\n
But cream corn is more interesting.<\/p>\n
It’s stinky. It’s sloppy.<\/p>\n
“It’s comedy. It’s funny, “he said.<\/p>\n
When asked about wrestling in a pit of gooey vegetables, Jeffrey Amadeus Booty said, “I didn’t pick the corn. I just followed suit.”<\/p>\n
Armstrong and others cooked the corn on kettles before dumping it into the pit.<\/p>\n
As soon as the corn was creamy, the matches were on.<\/p>\n
“It sucked. He was playing dirty, “said a man who went by the wrestling name, “El Nino.”<\/p>\n
It was his first time wrestling in cream corn.<\/p>\n
Some take the matches more seriously than others.<\/p>\n
“I’m vying for the new belt, “Booty said.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, he couldn’t find a “worthy adversary “he knew to wrestle against.<\/p>\n
“See my friends won’t wrestle me, “he said. “(They’re) scared.”<\/p>\n
Booty has traveled with friends from the Twin Cities for the last three years to wrestle in cream corn.<\/p>\n
James Davey, 45, said he weighs too little and is getting too old to wrestle.<\/p>\n
He’s been a spectator ever since he wrestled five years ago.<\/p>\n
“If they’re 200 pounds, I can’t throw them around, “he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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