But guess what, I've also been wrestling since I was 5 years old — real wrestling — amateur wrestling, Olympic wrestling.
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The wrestling-inspired main room features a home gym, wrestling arcade games, wrestling memorabilia, artwork, and more.
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Years in professional wrestling: Kazuyuki Fujita began his career in professional wrestling in 1993 when he joined New Japan Pro Wrestling.
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Wrestling The Seminoles claim alligator wrestling began with their tribe.
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Wrestling Like boxing, wrestling makes an appearance in The Iliad.
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" Professional wrestling and Brock Lesnar comparisons "Now, pro wrestling sucks.
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And one of the teams was wrestling, the wrestling team.
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The hammerlock, for instance, was a staple of old timey wrestling and appears frequently in the chain wrestling portions of professional wrestling matches.
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The latest great hope is New Japan Pro Wrestling, Japan's biggest, coolest wrestling company and the second largest wrestling promotion in the world.
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It's what keeps pro wrestling "pro wrestling" rather than just television.
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By the middle of the 20th century, wrestling became clearly delineated into entertainment wrestling that was primarily staged, and sport wrestling practiced in schools and universities (sometimes known as scholastic wrestling) as well as the Olympics.
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The difference between Celtic wrestling and classical wrestling is simple, he said.
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We were just wrestling, so, since a young age, I've been wrestling.
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It was simply too much wrestling, even for people who love wrestling.
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"I've been encouraged this week by the cooperation and friendship of the Iranian Wrestling Federation and USA Wrestling," United World Wrestling President Nenad Lalovic wrote.
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Years in professional wrestling: 1960–1998Antonio Inoki began professional wrestling in the Japanese Wrestling Association (JWA) under the wing of Korean Japanese professional wrestler Rikidōzan.
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Jess was getting older, and Vince's passion for wrestling catapulted their business from the Capitol Wrestling Corporation into joining with the National Wrestling Alliance in 1953.
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We created pro wrestling, but pro wrestling has also ended up creating us.
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As catch wrestling was still wrestling, the pin was still of primary importance.
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In the early 21959s, several other wrestling promoters experimented with televised wrestling matches.
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Non-wrestling fans miss this when they talk about the "realness" of wrestling.
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During its formative years, WWE was run by wrestling people, for wrestling people.
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Vader started out in Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association, than joined the New Japan Pro Wrestling, before ultimately creating a career for himself in World Championship Wrestling.
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The history of wrestling is interesting, because in the twentieth century, the sport becomes bifurcated into "professional" wrestling, exemplified today by the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) enterprise, and the actual sport of wrestling, primarily seen in the Olympics and in high-school and collegiate sport programs, which was sometimes referred to as 'school wrestling.
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Multiple reports, from sources like wrestling reporter Dave Meltzer and wrestling news website BodySlam.
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Wrestling for New Japan Pro-Wrestling at the Tokyo Dome, that was my dream.
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It's no longer about a wrestling family putting out a product for wrestling fans.
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More recently they've been indulging their wrestling obsession under their company moniker MRW Wrestling.
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The problem with that argument is that WWE doesn't just claim to be a wrestling promotion; it claims to be the wrestling promotion, and even pro wrestling itself.
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So the battle isn't whether wrestling can accept comedy, but whether comedy can accept wrestling.
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It's Fire Pro Wrestling World, an old-school-style wrestling game that's still in beta.
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So basically, it's pro wrestling in its maximalist, absurd execution without featuring any actual wrestling.
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For nearly three generations of pro wrestling fans, Jim Ross is what wrestling sounds like.
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And, honestly, pro wrestling is fucking fascinating, so there's a lot of pro wrestling chatter.
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The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) ruled the world of wrestling in the mid-19563th century.
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Indie wrestling is surging in popularity, and New Japan Wrestling is threatening to go global.
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With the popularity of the VHS tape format booming in the early to mid 1980s, many wrestling fans would trade tapes via wrestling newsletters that were mailed all over the world, with the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and Pro Wrestling Torch being the more prominent newsletters.
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The Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards—the Oscars of pro wrestling—has voted them Tag Team of the Year in all of pro wrestling in each of the last two years.
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Lucha Libre Wrestling in the Bronx We head to the Bronx Wrestling Federation to meet the small community of people behind the theatrical world of Mexican-style lucha libre wrestling.
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Fingernail-scale examples of Davids wrestling Goliaths, Samsons wrestling lions, and other ink and chalk heroes wrestling other foes were busy stealing the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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WRESTLING - A special commission set up by United World Wrestling, the governing body for Olympic forms of wrestling, has cleared 16 of the 17 Russian wrestlers to compete at Rio.
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But, the aforementioned three have little on Makhov's wrestling CV despite their own esteemed wrestling careers.
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Wrestling fans are urging World Wrestling Entertainment to reconsider its upcoming major event in Saudi Arabia.
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Since Brie and Nikki Bella, the 34-year-old wrestling twins of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
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The whole world became pro wrestling and it was the best moment of the wrestling year.
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He was all of those things because wrestling does not, cannot, happen in "strictly" wrestling terms.
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If he wants to have a wrestling match, I'm ready for a wrestling match as well.
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His son, Vince Senior, saw an opportunity to increase the popularity of wrestling and using his own money, put wrestling on television, creating a demand for televised and local wrestling events.
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The early 20th century marked the shift into the two distinct camps of 'Professional' wrestling and sport wrestling, exemplified by wrestling reentering the Olympic Games after a fifteen hundred year gap.
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There's a very simple story about pro wrestling history which runs like this: In the 1.53s, World Championship Wrestling and WWE were locked in a blood feud over pro wrestling supremacy.
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Japanese pro wrestling icon Atsushi Onita, best known for having brought the legendarily brutal "Deathmatch" style of wrestling to Japan with his storied Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) organization, is one of the most enigmatic, creative, divisive, and brilliant personalities to emerge from the world of wrestling.
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Today, our concept of professional wrestling (as opposed to sport wrestling found in the Olympics and other athletic platforms) is anchored in the monolithic entity of the WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
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You may not be interested in pro wrestling, but pro wrestling is infinitely, hungrily interested in you.
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Years in professional wrestling: Shinsuke Nakamura is a three-time International Wrestling Grand Prix (IWGP) Heavyweight Champion.
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A professional wrestling icon in Japan, Takada was a good worker from a classical catch wrestling lineage.
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You have to have kickboxing, boxing, wrestling, or if you don't have wrestling you have jiu-jitsu.
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Goldberg rose to fame after he started wrestling in 1996 in the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling.
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Fifth on the medal table in wrestling at the summer Olympics, Turkey's wrestling pedigree cannot be disputed.
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For the non-wrestling fans out there, the WWF (World Wrestling Foundation) changed its name to the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) in 2002, one year before the first Harry Potter film was release.
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Cappotelli was the co-winner of the wrestling reality competition show "WWE Tough Enough III" in 2003 and quickly began training to rise in the ranks of pro wrestling, World Wrestling Entertainment said.
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Artwork by Grimoire World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) recently acquired four talents from New Japan Pro Wrestling which have set the Internet wrestling community aflame: Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson, Shinsuke Nakamura and A.J. Stlyes.
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Many of his wrestling approaches include mention of making good sport and are obviously meant for wrestling contests.
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Fire Pro Wrestling is a wrestling game series that saw its start in 1989 on the TurboGrafx-16.
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The ways in which Japanese wrestling pushes physical limits are very different than the ways American wrestling does.
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The wrestling promotion, originally known as Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling Enterprise), was started in 1933.
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Moreover, there's now a ton of pro wrestling writing—good pro wrestling writing—online for anyone to read.
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And if you like wrestling parodies, there's "Xtremely Serious Wrestling" at the PIT Loft, also on Friday night.
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"I was doing professional wrestling for a federation called Women of Wrestling back in 2000, 20183," she says.
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When you look at the styles of wrestling and booking, they're two very [similar] styles of pro wrestling.
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Since the 1970s, when Antonio Inoki founded it, New Japan and the style of wrestling it evangelized—wrestling as combat sport, not carnival act—has served as a reference point for the wrestling cognoscenti.
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Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling sold out Ted Reeve Arena, ditto for Lucha Underground in conjunction with local outfit Smash Wrestling at Lee's Palace, while WhatCulture Pro Wrestling packed The Phoenix.
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Glimmers of the catch wrestling of old are not so much found in the powerbombs and frog splashes of modern professional wrestling, but in the chain wrestling and holds of the old style workers.
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With solid foods also comes more energy, which the twins love to burn by play-wrestling with mom, play-wrestling with each other and rolling around, which is kind of like play-wrestling with yourself.
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Breton Wrestling (sometimes known as Gouren Wrestling) is similar in approach to Cornish wrestling—according to Martial Arts Historian Thomas Green, the primary difference between the two styles is how tight the jacket is worn.
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Given all that, sometimes a wrestling show is simply a wrestling show, and that's precisely what Survivor Series was.
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He joined the wrestling team and went all the way to the National Junior Freestyle Wrestling Championship in Iowa.
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In 2001, WWE bought out World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling, signaling a functional monopoly in the sport.
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"We're not in the wrestling business—we're in business, and our business is wrestling," Joe Koff, ROH's COO, states.
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I have executive produced and starred in two reality shows, one about women's wrestling, while on the road wrestling.
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Ruth ends up joining a female wrestling cohort called the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (hence the series' acronym title).
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Years in professional wrestling: Dave Bautista began wrestling in 1999 and signed with the WWF (now WWE) in 2000.
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Years in professional wrestling: Masakatsu Funaki applied to New Japan Pro Wrestling instead of entering high school in 1985.
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"You're wrestling with the van, wrestling with the wind, every truck that goes by you vibrates you," Smith said.
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Blood has largely fallen out of favor in pro wrestling, outside the remaining hardcore promotions like Combat Zone Wrestling.
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He also loves wrestling so much that we once made a different list outlining his best pro wrestling references.
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But I'm also a pro wrestling nerd who recently started an alternate account to keep up with wrestling Twitter.
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Appearing in wrestling matches as "Jungle Boy," Bar Wrestling confirmed he dropped out of the March 31 show on Twitter.
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Almost to an extent, Osaka Pro Wrestling was one of the originators of having this weird comedy style of wrestling.
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Whatever else, Japan's wrestling culture is once again defining the boundaries of discussion for what wrestling is and should be.
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The wrestling dream wasn't over for Silva—he went on to perform at New Japan Pro Wrestling and later Hustle.
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He also had a brief one-year stint in the American Wrestling Association and the World Wrestling Federation, says wrestlingdata.com.
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In the world of professional wrestling, wrestling companies exist in their own "universe"—not dissimilar to Marvel or DC Comics.
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Years later, the standard "main event" style in American wrestling would be impossible to imagine without NJPW and Japanese wrestling.
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Whaley worked for over a decade as "The Masked Saint" in Championship Wrestling From Florida and World Class Championship Wrestling.
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Wrestling fans can forgive many things, but not loving pro wrestling as much as they do is a big ask.
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Early Western ethnographers attempted to define the Igbo's wrestling in comparison to the wrestling styles of their own community, but most were unfamiliar with Greco-Roman or Lancashire wrestling, so their comparisons do not provide sufficient descriptions.
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Born out of post WWII tensions, American wrestling god Terry Funk famously said that the Japanese style of wrestling was more a "shoot" (real) fight that they had to make look like a "worked" (staged) wrestling match.
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Wrestling In his book, Fighting for Honor: The history of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic, Dr. Thomas Desch-Obi notes that the early fighting sports historians incorrectly traced African wrestling styles to Egypt's Beni Hasan wrestling system.
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Unlike pro wrestling seen in the likes of the WWE, in session wrestling there is no 'kayfabe' (a term used in pro wrestling, when staged events are portrayed and reported as authentic in order to further a storyline).
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Pro wrestling was transitioning: Vince McMahon would announce the death of kayfabe not soon after and the days of ambiguity about whether pro wrestling was "real" or not became passé, replaced by examination of pro wrestling as performance.
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I, because of my background in wrestling, and President Trump has a long historic history with wrestling and (inaudible) man 101.
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The 5-foot-10, 150-pound athlete announced in January he was acquired by All Elite Wrestling, a professional wrestling promotion.
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Grace—whose real name is Patricia Parker—has already wrestled for Black Label Pro, Beyond Wrestling, NOVA Pro, and Shine Wrestling.
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Irish wrestling (Gleacaíocht or Coraíocht in Gaelic) had several distinct styles, including Collar and Elbow, Square Hold, Scuffling, and Backhold wrestling.
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And Henry practiced, and apparently excelled, in a of wrestling indigenous to the Cornwall region of England, known as Cornish Wrestling.
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He's now a sports tycoon as he owns the Jaguars, English soccer club Fulham, and professional wrestling organization All Elite Wrestling.
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There is pro wrestling before Vince McMahon's decision to break with 80 years of pro wrestling tradition, and there is after.
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"As a lifelong wrestling fan, I've always felt there's more to wrestling than just choreographed violence," Abraham says in the introduction.
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After retiring from the ring, he taught young wrestlers at his own wrestling school, Harley Race's Wrestling Academy, in Troy, Missouri.
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CM Punk, retired from pro wrestling, is now lashed to UFC in a make-or-break bid for non-wrestling stardom.
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Wrestling is one of the most popular sports in Iran: 43 of the nation's 69 Olympic medals have come in wrestling.
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Longtime Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Online contributor Alan Counihan started buying Japanese wrestling footage from IVP Videos in the early 2000s.
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We covered his attacks in The Brutal Catch Wrestling of Minoru Suzuki and The Continued Catch Wrestling Adventures of Minoru Suzuki .
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" The statement went on to say: "The UFC and the British Wrestling Association will continue to support the development of wrestling.
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