21 Facts About Sport wrestling

Amateur Sport wrestling flourished throughout the early years of the North American colonies and served as a popular activity at country fairs, holiday celebrations, and in military exercises.

Freestyle Sport wrestling is an international discipline and one of two Sport wrestling disciplines featured in the Olympic Games, for both men and women.

Freestyle Sport wrestling has its origins in catch-as-catch-can Sport wrestling and awards points on the basis of throw amplitude, exposure of an opponent's back to the mat and opponent passivity.

Beach Sport wrestling is standing Sport wrestling done by wrestlers, male or female, inside a sand-filled circle measuring 7 meters in diameter.

Folk Sport wrestling describes a traditional form of Sport wrestling unique to a culture or geographic region of the world that FILA does not administer rules for.

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Folk Sport wrestling styles are not recognized as international styles of Sport wrestling by UWW.

Collegiate Sport wrestling is the commonly used name of Sport wrestling practiced at the college and university level in the United States.

Junior varsity and freshman Sport wrestling teams restrict competitors not only by weight, but by age and the amount of Sport wrestling a competitor can partake in.

NCAA Division I Sport wrestling is considered the most prestigious and challenging level of competition.

Professional Sport wrestling is often concluded in a raised ring; akin to boxing.

American and British professional wrestling was considered a genuinely competitive sport up until around the mid-1920s, with occasional shoot matches still occurring well into the 1930s and 40s.

The roots of professional Sport wrestling lay in the catch-as-catch-can contests of the late 19th century.

Amateur wrestling coexisted peacefully alongside its professional counterpart until around the 1940s before the sport grew more theatrical.

Different style of professional Sport wrestling evolved in the United Kingdom and spread across Western Europe .

In many countries such as the UK, this form of professional Sport wrestling achieved mainstream popularity with television making household names of its stars, but later declined and was supplanted both on television and in wider culture by imported American Sport wrestling.

Shoot style Sport wrestling evolved from traditional puroresu in an attempt to create a combat-based style.

Shoot style Sport wrestling is retrospectively considered a precursor to mixed martial arts.

Mexican professional Sport wrestling, known as lucha libre, is a style of Sport wrestling using special holds.

Judo is a style of Sport wrestling which is derived from Jujitsu, a Japanese martial art.

Already in the early stages of MMA development, Sport wrestling gained respect due to its effectiveness against traditional martial artists.

UFC color commentator Joe Rogan stated: “I personally think that the very best skill for MMA is Sport wrestling, I think that's the number one base to come from because those guys just flat out dictate where the fight takes place [standing or on the ground].