championing the cause was north cornwall mp scott mann.the sport, as reported by the bbc‘s tonight programme in 1965. well, that rather nasty bash on the floor that you just saw and heard is technically known as an underheave, one of the six main throws, or hitches, as they are called, in cornish wrestling. cornish wrestling is the oldest sport in the united kingdom. we refer to it as rasling in cornwall, which is the cornish phrase for wrestling. generally competed with men. we have women and junior sections. the objective is to grab hold of each other and to throw each other on your back to score points. i want to raise the profile with sporting england. they gave us £8,000 about ten years ago now to raise the profile of the sport and that was successful for a period of time. i would like sport england to get involved and i am also quite keen to see it feature in some way in the commonwealth games. maybe not in birmingham, but if we can showcase it in birmingham, maybe for future commonwealth games. lots of dramatic mythology surrounds t