Real Pro Wrestling ab 2005 im NATIONAL TV

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REAL Pro Wrestling eine relativ neue “Promotion“ aus Tennessee die 2002 gegruendet wurde gab nun bekannt das man mit PAX TV einen Vertrag ueber einen Nationalen TV Deal abgeschlossen hat,es ist das erste mal in der Geschichte, das Shoot Pro Wrestling im Nationalen TV laufen wird.Der Pax Network ist in 88% der US Haushalte und von ueber 96 Millionen Amerikanern empfangbar. Die erste Show wird am 13 Februar 2005 an den start gehen,die erste Season betrifft erstmal 15 Folgen,jedoch bei Erfolg (wovon viele ausgehen) will man ein ganz jaehriges Projekt daraus machen.Die Shows werden immer eine Stunde gehen bis auf die letzte Folge die zwei Stunden gehen wird und jeden Sonntag von 4-5pm EST und 3-4pm CST gehen.Aufgenommen werden die Shows in den Los Angeles Center Studios.

Nun was ist Real Pro Wrestling werden sich diejenigen fragen die die Promotion noch nicht kennen? Real Pro Wrestling will wie der Name es schon sagt das Professional Wrestling so zeigen wie es ist in seiner Urspruenglichen Art,es ist eine Art Olympic Style Wrestling League.Man will den Amateur Wrestler sowie Olympioniken die moeglichkeit bieten als Profi Sportler ihr Geld zu verdienen.Das Professional Wrestling zaehlt als einer der Populaersten Sportarten des 20 Jahrhunderts,und es wird jetzt erstmals im 21 Jahrhundert im National TV vertretten sein.Laut einer Umfrage von National Federation of High Schools (NFHS) zaehlt heute das Wrestling als die sechst beliebteste Sportart in den USA.Die Real Pro Wrestling League will das Professional Wrestling von ca 1900 wieder Populaer machen.Es ist der heutigen UFC naeher wie zum BSP der WWE,nur das man sich etwas darunter vorstellen kann. Toby Willis Mitgruender von Real Pro Wrestling und selber erfolgreicher College Wrestler erklaerte das Projekt so:“Finally, the world’s best wrestlers can earn a living at what they do best.Wrestling fans deserve to see their heroes compete against the best in the world.”

Alle Wrestling Matches bei Real Pro Wrestling werden Legitimate Matches sein,also Shoot Matches (auch Contest genannt).Es gibt zwei Stylearten wie vor hundert Jahren denn klassichen Freestyle (Catch as Catch can) und den Greco Roman Style,zu den Techniken wird zum BSP das Jiu-Jitsu und das Submission Wrestling eine wichtige Rolle spielen.Die Matches werden auf einer 360 Grad Matte ausgetragen werden.Die Real Pro Wrestling Show wird pures Shoot Wrestling bieten,ausser den Contest`s wird es lediglich einige Segmente geben wie zum BSP Background Stories,Tale of the Tape,History of the Sport, Tech Moment, Move of the Day, usw.Die Wrestling League wird in 7 Gewichtsklassen unterteilt werden von 55 kg/125 lbs bis hoch zu 120 kg/250 lbs,ausserdem wird es 8 Teams geben im ganzen Land: New York Outrage, California Claw, Chicago Groove, Iowa Stalkers, Oklahoma Slam, Minnesota Freeze, Pennsylvania Hammer und die Texas Shooters.Waehrend der Season 2005 gibt es ein Preisgeld von rund $250.000 bis $300.000 und das United States Olympic Comitee (USOC) wird die League kontrollieren.

Damit das Projekt auch erfolgreich wird konnte man einige bekannte Namen verpflichten die bei dem Projekt mitwirken werden,unter anderem vier Olympische Medaliengewinner 2004 und insgesamt 3 Olympiasieger im Wrestling. So zum BSP wird man Rulon Gardner Olympic Bronze Medalist 2004 wiedersehen.Ausserdem dabei Wrestling Legende und Olympic Gold Medalist Dan Gable,Cael Sanderson (2004 Olympic Gold Medalist),Bobby Douglas als Trainer (US Olympic Coach),Steve Abas (2004 Olympic Silver Medalist).Ausserdem aus Egypt den Gold Medal Gewinner im 96kg Greco Roman Wrestling Karam Ibrahim,an ihm war angeblich auch WWE interessiert.

Fuer weitere Informationen koennt ihr auf die Offizielle Homepage von Real Pro Wrestling gehen,wo ihr mehr Infos zu den Rules,sowie Updates findet.Ausserdem ein Link zu einem USA Today Artikel ueber Real Pro Wrestling

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist...tand_x.htm

http://www.realprowrestling.com

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Endlich mal eine wirkliche ALTERNATIVE in den ganzen USA fuer jeden Fan.Schon seit einigen Monaten wurde spekuliert ueber einen TV Deal,der nun bestaetigt wurde.Ich denke das ganze wird ein grosser Erfolg.Der Timeslot ist absolut in Ordnung,und man hat sich die richtigen leute ins Bott gehollt.Shootwrestling rules (8)

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Vor kurzem hielt Real Pro Wrestling eine Pressekonferenz ab.Hier mal die Stimmen und Kommentare zu der Pressekonferenz:

Toby Willis- Co-Founder and CEO, Real Pro Wrestling
“You guys get to be with us for a dream that has turned into reality. Wrestling is one of the biggest sports in our nation. Last year more fans came to see wrestling then any other sporting event. We intend to bring wrestling back to the United States and the world.”

“Wrestling has many different styles. What we have done is combine styles that maximize the best elements from each style.”

“What you guys are going to see is basically wrestlers showing the art of the throw. At the core of wrestling is the philosophy of warfare. General Patten said good generals win their battles by two different things. Not only attacking, but also by out maneuvering. The better the general the more he uses maneuvering. That is what is at the very core of the sport of wrestling. We have taken unarmed hand-to-hand combat and made it safe for sport. We do not cross the ethical line and the last thing we have done is made it a good and fun time for the fans.”

“We have taken scientific wrestling and turned it into 1st class entertainment. Everything from the sets, to the lights, to the rules and we got the best wrestlers in the nation. It’s a very exciting time for us and a very exciting time for the wrestlers. We intend to only grow bigger from here.”

Matt Case, Co-Founder, Executive Vice President, Real Pro Wrestling
“This is a dream come true for us. A few years ago Toby and I were scratching our heads as to why there wasn’t a professional outlet for our athletes and for us.”

“There is a lot of tradition in our sport and the tradition dates way back beyond this country. Wrestling is one of the bigger sports in many countries. It’s one of the first sports. We like to say that it’s one of the oldest sports, sanctioned by God.”

“We have done a lot of research, talked to Mike Chapman (Wrestling historian), Ken Craft leader of the former attempt of a pro league and we thought of the reasons why it didn’t work. We put the pieces together, made some analysis and this is what you see here. This is our creation based on all the input from many coaches, many wrestlers, many executives who are heads of corporations that used to wrestle. We have done a lot of research and we are basing this just beyond the traditional idea of wrestling which includes basically a mat on a gym floor and its no longer just that. It’s a mat on a podium and we are elevating a matt on the podium because we want to put our wrestlers out there to elevate them and put them in the position that they should be out in front of the general public and recognized as true professional athletes.”

Kenny Johnson, Vice President, Real Pro Wrestling
“Real Pro Wrestling league is not necessarily a dream come true b/c I never thought about wrestling at a real professional status. I never really had a base to think about it. It was just something you put your time into and you loved to do. Then you have the folks like Toby and Matt that develop the concept then it became my dream and then my passion.”

“I think that everybody that is in the room that wrestled in the first show will continue to wrestle after this. Wrestling to me is the fabric of America.”

“There is nobody I have spoken to that doesn’t know wrestling or know someone that used to wrestler and it becomes more and more evident each day that I work to promote this league to the wrestlers, to corporate sponsorships, to the PR firms everywhere, wrestling really unites things. I think with this show bringing it to the map is going to bring wrestling not only to the fore front of not only America, but of the world. With Toby Willis and Matt Case I think there were a lot of people that said this was fledging and not going to make it and in the past two years it came from obscurity to something that is just about to explode.”

“I have wrestled with, lived with, trained with and been friends with most of the people that are wrestling at this event. I think it’s going to be a great starting point.”

Rulon Gardner, Olympic athlete, Commentator for Real Pro Wrestling
“I am excited to be here today because Toby and Matt came and asked me to be a part of Real Pro Wrestling after I was able to be part of the first show. I am excited to be a part of such an event that really draws the athletes to the crowd. Being able to see the athletes up close and being able to see their vulnerabilities in a throw, in a position where here where you are elevated, you are going to fall off the stage, you are going to hurt yourself so you really don’t want to fall off of the stage. As an athlete, being able to see that now and being able to come back and be a part of Real Pro Wrestling will hopefully bring a little bit of legitimacy back to Real Pro and bring back the sport of wrestling to the dominance.”

“Hearing the history as you go around the country and always hear people talk about how great it was when they used to compete and how tired they were in that one year that they tried wrestling, there is so much respect for the sport of wrestling. If we could get people to see that and understand the history of the sport again and be able to enjoy it, I think people would come back and want to grow the sport, would comeback and see the art of wrestling and also the combat of wrestling, I think that’s what Real Pro is here to do.”

“We are looking forward to being able to bring it here and bring it for these great athletes to participate is going to be pretty amazing to see Greco and Freestyle collide. Being a Greco and a freestyle athlete I know it’s an explosive situation where things will happen and people will wonder are these guys for real and are they actually trying to go out there to destroy the other person and they are and that is what this stage is going to represent in wrestling as the best athletes from the US are going to go out and be the best athletes in the world.”


Joshua Rubel- Spokesperson for Los Angeles Center Studios
“I am here in place of Peter Brosnan. Basically we have seen a lot of shows come and go in the past and we are really happy to have Real Pro Wrestling back here again this year. We believe in the show, we believe in the sport and we wish you all of the success that you deserve.”

Kenny Johnson- description of upcoming speakers
Kenny Johnson describing Dan Gable - “Olympic Champion, world champion, coach of the University of Iowa and many nationals championships, big time championships, many accolades.”

Kenny Johnson describing Mike Chapman- “Wrestling historian, director of the international museum of wrestling in Iowa, author of over 16 books predominately in wrestling, a great spokesperson for wrestling, great advocate of wrestling.”

Kenny Johnson describing John Fuller- “Director of media and public relations for USA wrestling he has worked with us since we started and has been a huge help for us and an advocate of wrestling in general.”

Dan Gable-
“I have had to put myself in a role as if I am involved in a battle. The sport is a battle. A battle between two athletes. Two wrestling athletes. The battle that I am in right now is one that Real Pro Wrestling is actually helping me win and by that I mean is whether its Real Pro Wrestling or college sports television, the public channel across America, it’s a battle to promote what you believe in, what you have a real passion in.”

“These people up here, these people in the audience, we all have real passions for the sport of wrestling. And the past 20 years there has been a lot of battles to basically short change the sport and this is one opportunity, here with Real Pro Wrestling that is going to actually give us the opportunity to be put in front of the media in terms of the masses, to try to get us into households as more of a common name.”

“We want people to watch and be involved more than just people that have been involved in our wrestling in its entirety. We would love to see it go to a much higher degree and I think Real Pro Wrestling is one of those organizations, if not the leading organization, that has people that have a real passion and are basically stopping at nothing to put this across America and help promote it across the world. We shouldn't’t be pushed around, but we have been pushed around, but with events and with programs and companies and with good mass media we will stop being pushed around. We always have goals in our sport to be as good as we can be and we definitely have a lot more to give to the American public then we have been able to give.”

“People are starving for good wrestling. If this is a good product we are going to meet some of those needs that are going to help us put us at a higher level and not have to worry so much about what other people do in terms of trying to cut you out and shove you out. This is one fantastic opportunity to promote the sport.”

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Mike Chapman- Wrestling Historian
“Well when I first started out in my professional career I was a journalist for 35 years working for various newspapers around the mid west. I was an editor, sports editor and ended up as a publisher and I was always amazed at the lack of attention amateur wrestling was able to get from the national media. One of my primary goals was to try and market the sport and that is why I am so pleased and so impressed at the efforts that Toby and Matt and everyone have put forward at Real Pro Wrestling and one of the things you are doing is calling upon the history of the sport.”

“I run the International Wrestling Institute Museum in Newton, Iowa and we had over 10,000 visitors last year and a good share of them were educational field trips. I have had a lot of history teaches come up to me and say we heard we were going to a wrestling museum, how is this going to benefit our students. Then they walk in and they stay 2-3 hours and the teachers would come up to me and say we are so amazed at the history of this sport. It’s almost like a microcosm of this civilization.”

“When you walk into the museum you see a life size portrait from Abraham Lincoln wrestling in 1832 at the age of 23. There have been 12,000 books written about Abraham Lincoln and many scholars say you can trace his political career and the confidence he had to the wrestling match he had with Jack Armstrong in 1832. Lincoln was proud of that wrestling match the rest of his life.”

“You walk around the corner you will see a life size mural of Jacob wrestling the Angel of the Lord. Wrestling is the first sport talked about in the bible. You go around the other corner and there is a wall dedicated to the epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh was the warrior king of Ancient Sumeria 5,000 years ago. Why is that of interest today? Because Ancient Sumeria is located exactly where Iraq is located today.”

“So you see wrestling has this incredible history background that no other sport can match. We are so proud of the history of wrestling going back to Jacob wrestling in the bible, the great warriors that wrestled at Troy in the Iliad, the epic of Gilgamesh and Abraham Lincoln, and when people begin to understand the education and cultural background of this sport they are absolutely amazed. Kenny, Matt and Toby I take my hat off to you for what you are doing here and I think this has potential to become one of the most important activities in the history of wrestling.”

John Fuller- Director of Media and Public Relations for USA Wrestling
“I think it’s pretty fitting that I am sitting next to Mike who is a wrestling historian but we are here today to talk about the future of wrestling as well. I think that is a really good thing.”

“USA Wresting is really proud of what Toby Matt and Kenny have put together. We are really happy that they have been able to include us in everything, in every step up to this point, including our athletes. A couple things that get lost are how important this can be for elite level athletes. Of 56 wrestlers that are going to be here, 7 of them have competed in the Olympics and the other 49 are training to compete in the Olympics. The money that can come in from a league such as this can help elite athletes train and support their families that they have. These are great athletes with wives but they aren't’t NFL players or NBA players. They aren't’t making millions of dollars. They are making a lot of sacrifices just to be able to reach their dreams of an Olympic gold medal one day.”

“Real Pro Wrestling and the success of this league can help our athletes get to that point and make it not such a burden on their families for them to be able to compete here. A lot of other sports/promotions have to create their own characters but I think it’s pretty clear that wrestling has its own characters and we don’t have to create them. They are already there and I think that is what the public is really going to be drawn to and that is who they are really going to attract to when the series starts in February. USA Wrestling, all of our athletes, we are very excited for Real Pro Wrestling.”

Chris Bono-Wrestler for 145 LBS, Team Illinois

Bono originally from Florida wrestled for Iowa State, was a national champion, he coaches there with Bobby Douglas and was one of the ones that coached Cael [Sanderson] to his infamous career. Two-time world team member.

Chris Bono- “I am real excited about Real Pro Wrestling. The media is going to be one thing that really helps this league succeed.”

Joe Williams, Wrestler for 163 LBS, Team Illinois
Originally from Chicago, wrestled for the University of Iowa, multiple national championships there as well. Many accolades. Most recent 5th in the 2004 Olympics in Athens and he is currently living and training in Iowa.

Joe Williams- “First of all I would like to thank Real Pro Wrestling for giving me the opportunity to come out and display what wrestling is all about. Without Real Pro Wrestling something like this would not exist. This is the first Olympic league of wrestling; it’s going to be very exciting. I am very proud to be one of the athletes taking part in this event and I look forward to a great tournament. Thank you.”

Dennis Hall, Wrestler 134 LBS, Team California
Originally from Wisconsin, 3 X Olympian and world champion, one of the very few Olympic or world medallists in Greco Roman.

Dennis Hall- “It’s nice to be able to go to a wrestling meet and not have to worry about different things and hopefully get it on TV. It’s going to be on TV starting in February. Wrestling isn’t on TV that much so for me it’s an opportunity to show little kids what wrestling is all about and get our youth involved in wrestling because I think wrestling gives a lot back to the community as far as with youth. It teaches them about goal setting about dedication and things like that. So actually I think America needs wrestling.”

TC Dantzler, Wrestler for 163 LBS, Team Minnesota
Originally from Illinois, he wrestled at Northern Illinois where he is going to be inducted into the Hall of Fame next week. Two-time world team member.

TC- “Real Pro Wrestling is a great opportunity to showcase many different athletes. You don’t have to be 10 feet tall or you don’t have to be fast, it’s going to showcase a lot of different skills and skill sets especially combining the sports of Greco-Roman and freestyle. I am glad to finally sit up here in a situation where I can finally show people who have been saying to me for the last 10 years, since I have graduated from college, are you still wrestling? When are you going to stop doing that game of wrestling and start your life? Well look where wrestling got me. I am in Hollywood now putting on a real big time production. This game has gotten me to Hollywood and I wanted to make sure that everyone who has given me the speech about getting on with my life knows here I am.”

Jeff Prescott- Wrestler for 121 LBS, Team New York
“I am really looking forward to the young guys coming out. I am excited to pass wrestling on to the rest of the world. “

Stephen Abas, Coach for Team California
“This is a dream come true and it’s all about the love of the sport and I am excited to see where it’s going.”

Tony DeAnda-Wrestler for 134 LBS, Team New York
“I would just like to thank Real Pro Wrestling for bringing me out here and I would like to say thanks to Toby and Matt for making this all possible. I have dreamed about something like this since I was a young kid and I am happy to be a part of it.”

Steve Knight -Coach for Team New York
“I don’t think the general public really knows what theses athletes go through for the sport. What this league can do is change the face of wrestling forever.”