pro wrestling

[EmptyneSs]

what do u guys think of pro wrestling as a style? yeah the matches are choreographed, but alot of the techniques i see used in pro wrestling are actual techniques.i think alot of people assume that pro wrestlers probobly cant fight cause what they do is "fake". the fact is, most pro wreslters can grapple for real, and alot of them crosstrain in martial arts. i mean, just look at rob van dam, that guy is a serious martial artist and it shows. not only that, but they have incredible breakfalling ability. if u watch any pro wrestling match, u can spot just how many times wrestlers break their falls. they arent just going ape shit in a ring, they are highly trained professionals. some of their techniques are made up and are just for show, but many of their moves are real ones. alot of the made ones that are for show can work in real life too. even the most basic of those body slams will crush a person if they are slammed on concrete. i dont think a pro wrestler would have any problem powerbombing some fool straight into the pavement, he does that shit for a living. pro wrestlers are also incredibly strong, agile, and have incredible endurance. lately i been watching some pro wrestling, and ive been noticing that many of them know alot of real techniques, they just dont execute them for real in the ring. i mean, kurt angle was an olympic wrestler before, and one of his finishing moves is an ankle lock. alot of wrestlers use real submission holds in the ring, along with some made up ones. this leads me to beleive they have some kind of "real" training. i see all kinds of arm bars, chokes, and leg logs in pro wrestling. anyone see the way chris benoit locks a persons arm from standing position, then takes em down and puts em in the crossface? he executes that armlock pretty well, he would have no problem putting someone in that in real life.

anyone see chris benoit vs kurt angle when they wrestled to see who was the best technical wrestler? that match was 30 min of the best grappling i ever seen. reversal after reversal, counter of counter, they really displayed some awesome grappling skills.

i know alot of u wont take this seriously, but it was in fact a pro wrestler who was able to defeat the gracies.

what u guys think ?

[Lizard]

A few years ago I asked the exact same question. Because professional wrestling does have it all, knees, elbows, groundfighting... If you took out the nonesense moves (the ones where one person knocks another one out by back flipping onto him), and maybe taught them not to deliberatly antagonise people by spraying milk on them or informing them of the imminent "smack down" they were about to receieve, you might not have such a bad style...

[Tom Yum]

Pro-wrestlers are some tough dudes!

They can pick up fellas their own size and sometimes even larger and slam them into the pavement. Nowadays, they incorporate techniques like side kicks, push kicks, elbows and knees into their routine to make it look more interesting.

Need proof that pro-wrestlers are awesome fighters?

Sakuraba started off as a pro-wrestler, trained to use his moves for real and has had some impressive victories over well known fighters.

Imagine if Sakuraba were 50 lbs heavier...

[Blue Wave Gym]

it came from real wrestling like catch wrestling and... I could do a history of wrestling in america paper on here but just read a history of grappling book
many of the old time pro wrestlers were champion real wrestlers, look up the words hooker and shooter and a shoot and there wer instances of wrestlers getting in street fights with top boxers of the daythe result was the top boxer getting an ass wupping, so the usa not brazil is actually the birth place of NHB, oh some bjj dude is going to choke me now