Talk:Real Pro Wrestling

Category Problem
This actually seems to be intended as a professional league for sport wrestling. It's "professional wrestling" in the sense that it's professional and it's wrestling, but it's not pro wrestling in the usual sense at all. I don't think the pro wrestling categories apply. &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 06:21, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed. This should be changed. ZeWrestler 4:30 May 7, 2005 UTC
 * Fixed it up. Left the in-context links to pro wrestling terminology, because they do help to explain what sets this apart.   &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 05:00, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

RealProWrestling
apparently this is supposed to be all one word because of copyright issues, I don't know how but maybe someone could make this a redirection to RealProWrestling (not Real_Pro_Wrestling

Sumo and catch?
I'd like to see a source for the claim that RPW is influenced by sumo and catch, as neither would seem to be a good fit. RPW seems to be intended as a professional league for sport wrestling, while sumo and catch wrestling have very different goals. Sumo does not have a concept of "pin"&mdash;the object is to push one's opponent out of the ring, or to cause them to fall so that they touch the mat with any body part above the foot&mdash;while catch wrestling focuses on submission holds, which aren't allowed in classical sport wrestling (Greco-Roman, freestyle, or folkstyle). &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 22:09, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I can see teh sumo because of the push out of bounds rule. But i've never heard of catch before this.  I don't believe that from what i read RPW was influenced by catch. --ZeWrestler 15:08, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

"RPW hopes to bring an end to all the various styles, rules, and clinch positions and regulations. We truly believe freestyle is the closest style with which to start and build a professional wrestling league around. We also combine the best of Greco-Roman, folkstyle, and Sumo to create a combination that best maximizes the sport of wrestling." Catch will not be added again but I will add Folkstyle and Sumo, I don't think that there is really any argument against it with this quote.
 * Quote from the RPW website on their article about freestyle wrestling

Source
Check their articles about history and influences. These have plenty of references about catch and Sumo. I guess catch is debatable, because they did not decide to include submissions, but they did look at the sport when forming the rules for RealProWrestling

backgrounds

 * Currently, Greco-Roman and Freestyle are the most common wrestling backgrounds in the leagues, due to the fact that it is U.S. sport, and these styles are the only two that are in the Olympics.

This doesn't compute. It doesn't make sense that Greco-Roman and Freestyle would be the most common because it's a U.S. league: those styles are popular internationally but not so much in America. high school and collegiate wrestling competitions in the U.S. are folkstyle; this has been blamed for America's generally unimpressive performance in international competition. &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 04:17, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Rules
This article needs a better explanation for the rules. It only says a few. Is this closest to freestyle, folkstyle, greco-roman, or sumo? Can you do leg shots like freestyle and folkstyle? Is the RPW more brutal than amateur wrestling, as professional boxing is compared to amateur boxing? Can you do more holds that were rejected in freestyle, folkstyle, greco-roman, and sumo? Can you ect. ect.? All this and more needs to be explained in the "Rules" section, it doesn’t explain enough.

--Also, what's with this 'Bonus Meter' and all that? Sounds more like something in a video game than something that would be seen in 'pro' amateur wrestling (I'm using that phrase because, though it is contradictory, it gets the point/concept across better.)

Professional Wrestling Bias
There are promotions that do not have predetermined outcome. Many Local promotions feature real "professional" but unlike boxing most professional wrestlers work on safety level to not intentionally cause major injuries. ROH comes to mind thought they sometimes distract from this stance. I believe this article needs its introduction to be revised so that it doesn't seem so biased. Prince_Destiny 15:52, 23 February 2006

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