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I think it's safe to say that people have been tackling each other for thousands of years.
What are some of these fouls you mention though?
There is a lot more to in than tackling.
Wrestling has taken a number of forums and some wrestling matches were death matches in ancient times. Some of the lethal techniques have been removed. No more neck breaking, spine cracking, neck biting, and so on except for death matches. When the death sports ended Wrestling had softened a bit.
Wrestling the was also a military tool and some of the most damaging techniques were softened for practice but intended to be hard in war. It doesn't pay to have 10% of your army with injuries.
Emperor Commodus was strangled to death by his wrestling coach . Chokes got removed from Catch as Catch can unfortunately.
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