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Toby Willis, the CEO and co-founder of Real Pro Wrestling, told us, 'USA Wrestling is still sanctioning us.'
It has not yet been determined, Willis also said, if the eight teams that comprise Real Pro Wrestling's new league will be centrally-owned by the league or set up as separately owned franchises, as most sports leagues are set up. 'We'll cross that bridge later,' said a very, very busy Willis.
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But Real Pro Wrestling, and Toby Willis himself, as well as most of the other people involved in this venture, have something special about them: They have a background in wrestling, in struggling and training and fearing nothing in the quest to overcome all adversity.
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Toby Willis, the CEO and co-founder of Real Pro Wrestling, described the basic style as being a 'hybrid,' especially of the current international styles of freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.
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The idea, Willis said, was to 'remove as much subjectivity as possible.' Thus the tedious process of trying to get both wrestlers to clinch, which was excruciating to watch and also determined the outcome of numerous matches on the most subjective and petty of criteria, will be left to matches under FILA's rules.
The other idea was to create a situation where freestyle and Greco were merged.Willis envisions a situation where 'one style can't dominate over the other one.'
Of course, everyone wants to know how the Greco wrestlers will fare with leg attacks allowed. 'That's the big question,' Willis acknowledged.He stated that in practice matches under these rules that the Greco wrestlers 'held their own and were beating freestyle guys.' He added, 'You would think that the freestyle guys would dominate,' but that was not the case.
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That requires wrestlers who have mastered many different types of techniques. 'We're after a complete wrestler,' stated Willis.
While there will be no submissions in Real Pro Wrestling, Willis said his organization has also borrowed from that great style of wrestling as well.A wrestler 'can crank an arm or leg in the direction of them' but not too far against the joint.He gave as an example the bar-arm and similar moves which are not allowed by FILA.
Wrestlers can thus use these holds to maneuver their opponents onto their backs.But if there is 'nowhere you can relieve the pressure, it's illegal.'
Willis said that Real Pro Wrestling would thus 'go a little in the submission direction, too, but not a whole lot.'
Still, this new style being developed by Real Pro Wrestling does aim to combine the best and most entertaining aspects of freestyle and Greco, while adding these elements from sumo and submission wrestling.
Of course, wrestling's grand climax, its knockout, home run, and touchdown combined, the pin, is the most prized finish to a match. 'We love the pin,' said Willis.
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'I hope we chose the right way,' remarked Willis.
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