Women Battle In Annual Coleslaw Wrestling Match
Annual Event Draws Bikers Nationwide To Daytona Beach Area
POSTED: Wednesday, March 3, 2004
UPDATED: 4:14 pm EDT October 6,
2004
Crowds in Daytona Beach, Fla., enjoyed Bike Week's messiest event Wednesday as women wrestled each other in a giant pool of coleslaw, according to Local 6 News.
Sopotnick's Cabbage Patch bar in Samsala sponsors the annual coleslaw wrestling matches as part of the Bike Week motorcycle festival that draws hundreds of thousands of bikers nationwide to the Daytona Beach area.
The women who enter Sopotnick's event wrestle each other in bikinis and less for a grand prize of $500. However, most of the 20 women in this year's event joined just to have fun, according to Local 6 News.
The rules in the coleslaw wrestling matches are "no biting and no kicking" but most everything else is legal in the ring.
This year's wrestling pool was filled with 2,000 pounds of cabbage and 10 gallons of Wesson oil.
Local 6 News reporter Candice Coleman featured a wrestler who jumped in the coleslaw and wrestled for the first time at age 61.
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