I read an article about Tombstone and the silver mines in the area and a significant number of the miners were from Cornwall. Amongst the population of Tombstone Cornish wrestling became very popular and attracted sizeable crowds, the reports of the bouts were sent back to the UK.
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here's hack giving cornish a try
And a few clippings from 1926 on the cornish meeting yukio tani, tani was considered the best Lancanshire wrestler in the north of england after deafting jem mellor in 1904