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My name's Joel Hicks and I'm a five-time winner
of the World Great Wrestling Championships
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and I'm also last year's winner so I'm here to defend my crown. Having a Guinness
World Records title, what can I say about that? Well, when I first started
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gravy wrestling around 10 years ago, it's the last
thing that I ever thought I'd be honoured with
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Quite something that will probably go with me for the day that I die, I'll always have that.
And so that's really sweet. Whether it's a talent, I don't know. Let your viewers be the judge
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Every year I come as a different personality,
a different persona. This year I'm here as the
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bearded lady. I've got a few tricks up my
skirt but I can't really tell you them just now
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you just have to wait and see what happens. It's
great for me personally, you know, but more for
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events like the World Great Wrestling Championships.
The guys that run this and put this event on
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they deserve all the credit. They're doing this,
organising it all year round to put on this one
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day. Me as a contestant, I come along and do my
bit, but it's those guys that really deserve all
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the credit. And the money we raise obviously goes
to East Lancashire Hospice. And what started out
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as basically just a few guys wrestling in gravy
outside a supermarket, shoppers looking on what
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on earth was going on. We're now raising around
four or five thousand pounds every year by doing
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this. And it's just fantastic for the community,
for East Lancashire Hospice and everybody that's
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involved in gravy wrestling. I didn't expect to
take the title this year, I've got to say. Six
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world titles, slightly overwhelming, slightly
embarrassed I have to say as well. There are some
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fantastic guys out there this year. I mean the
quality of opposition, so to speak, it's better
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and better every year. Really good turnout for
the ladies. I mean it's nearly six o'clock now
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we've just finished. Absolutely great turnout,
the crowd are wonderful, the organisers put on
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another superb job. What can we say? It's just been
absolutely a blast of a day, we've raised a lot of money
