Redd Foxx began doing stand-up comedy on the infamous Chitlin' Circuit in the 1940s and 1950s. Foxx was one of the premier blue humor comedians. Blue humor was very dirty, too dirty for white audiences. For years his party albums were not available in white record stores.
A near fall (near pin) is when... one shoulder touches the mat and the other shoulder is at a 45 degree angle coming down to the mat, or... the wrestler is held in a high bridge or back on both elbows. If a near fall lasts for two seconds, you get 2 points.
Illustrations of wrestling on Greek vases and coins are common throughout all periods of ancient Greece, but all that can be told from it is that the style was loose wrestling and that wrestlers, as did all Greek athletes, competed naked. Wrestling was part of the Olympic Games from 776 bce. There were two wrestling championships in these games: a toppling event for the best two of three falls; and the pankration (Latin: pancratium), which combined wrestling and boxing and ended in the submission of one contestant.