Professional Wrestling Leagues

[flyingcement]

Speaking of the ones which are not scripted of course.  Right now, it seems like we have three primary ones which are:

Real American Freestyle: Modified version of freestyle, broadcast on Fox Nation
CLAW: rules are hybrid of freestyle and folkstyle with a few other tweaks like the pilons; broadcast on YouTube and FloWrestling
Championship Wrestling Association: 9 minute matches of folks style - three minute periods.  Broadcast on Rokfin

I'm happy the those that are taking these business risks on behalf of wrestling are adhering to game theory and attempting different approaches.  Maybe we can learn something about how to grow wrestling into a professional sport by watching the evolution of these leagues as well as remembering those that came before them.  

I have a personal bias toward folkstyle, but I'm not too insistent that the product be one style vs another.  I think production value and quality of wrestlers will make the biggest different to me personally. 

I'm looking forward to following all three

[CHROMEBIRD]

I thought AGON was a pretty good hybridized style at the time. It's too bad it never took off. 

Are the international pro wrestling leagues still around? I assume they are, but am not familiar. I just remember JB, Helen, and others getting recruited to compete overseas some time ago.

[flyingcement]

30 minutes ago, CHROMEBIRD said:

I thought AGON was a pretty good hybridized style at the time. It's too bad it never took off. 

Are the international pro wrestling leagues still around? I assume they are, but am not familiar. I just remember JB, Helen, and others getting recruited to compete overseas some time ago.

I had never watched AGON and am not familiar with the pro international leagues.  I will have to check them out.  Maybe some old matches on YouTube

[Tripnsweep]

RPW had a great concept, because they just taped everything quickly. That way they could broadcast it over a long period of time. 

[RawDog]

Are there going to be teams? Team scoring and Team duals?  That's a big part of what makes college wrestling so entertaining

[StanfordTree133]

Jawn had this take but idk where the money would come from

[Tripnsweep]

I agree. It should follow a golf or tennis kind of model. That's kind of how it is anyway, with the way UWW has rankings and things. There should be an established tour though, and just have it culminate at Worlds every year. 

[nhs67]

14 hours ago, CHROMEBIRD said:

I thought AGON was a pretty good hybridized style at the time. It's too bad it never took off. 

Are the international pro wrestling leagues still around? I assume they are, but am not familiar. I just remember JB, Helen, and others getting recruited to compete overseas some time ago.

 

13 hours ago, flyingcement said:

I had never watched AGON and am not familiar with the pro international leagues.  I will have to check them out.  Maybe some old matches on YouTube

I thought the leaders at AGON ended up becoming the CWA or something like that?

[alex1fly]

17 hours ago, flyingcement said:

Speaking of the ones which are not scripted of course.  Right now, it seems like we have three primary ones which are:

Real American Freestyle: Modified version of freestyle, broadcast on Fox Nation
CLAW: rules are hybrid of freestyle and folkstyle with a few other tweaks like the pilons; broadcast on YouTube and FloWrestling
Championship Wrestling Association: 9 minute matches of folks style - three minute periods.  Broadcast on Rokfin

I'm happy the those that are taking these business risks on behalf of wrestling are adhering to game theory and attempting different approaches.  Maybe we can learn something about how to grow wrestling into a professional sport by watching the evolution of these leagues as well as remembering those that came before them.  

I have a personal bias toward folkstyle, but I'm not too insistent that the product be one style vs another.  I think production value and quality of wrestlers will make the biggest different to me personally. 

I'm looking forward to following all three

Thanks for this! I've been wanting to understand more and this is great. Still hard to pinpoint when they start and how to weed through the content to find out what I'm interested in watching. But hopefully that clears up with time.