{"id":12549,"date":"2022-10-09T03:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T03:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/10\/09\/seventeen-time-world-champion-toe-wrestler-retires\/"},"modified":"2022-10-09T03:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T03:02:23","slug":"seventeen-time-world-champion-toe-wrestler-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=12549","title":{"rendered":"Seventeen-time world champion toe wrestler retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Seventeen-time world champion toe wrestler, Alan &#8220;Nasty&#8221; Nash, has revealed the reasons why he is stepping down from the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The World Toe Wrestling Championships, which were created in the 1970s, take place annually in Ashbourne, Derbyshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Nash, 63, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a sport that anybody can go for. You haven&#8217;t got to train all your life for it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not as strong now. I&#8217;m not as fit. You just can&#8217;t keep going forever can you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video journalist: Chris Waring<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Follow BBC East Midlands on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbceastmids\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Facebook<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcemt\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Twitter<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">, or <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbceastmidlands\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Instagram<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">. Send your story ideas to <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/mailto:eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-derbyshire-63061846?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Seventeen-time world champion toe wrestler, Alan &#8220;Nasty&#8221; Nash, has revealed the reasons why he is stepping down from the sport. The World Toe Wrestling Championships, which were created in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}