Talk:Styles of wrestling

Article title
Unsure whether to call this styles or types. Genres is the other possibility.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=styles
 * Styles of Chinese martial arts
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=types&fulltext=Search
 * Types of municipalities in Quebec
 * Types of business entity
 * Category:Types of business entity
 * Category:Types of organization
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=genres&fulltext=Search
 * Category:Professional wrestling genres

Any of the three would do. Andrewa (talk) 05:47, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Competitive wrestling
Competitive wrestling could redirect to the appropriate section of this page. Andrewa (talk) 16:19, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Competitive professional wrestling
I'm fascinated that, if our coverage is representative, there seem to be so many active styles of amateur wrestling, and so few of competitive professional wrestling... to date, only Sumo!

Why is this, I wonder? Is it that our coverage and the WWW are both dominated by the sports entertainment industry, and "true" professional wrestling just doesn't get a fair hearing? Or, is there something about wrestling that makes it a relatively popular amateur sport (two current summer Olympic events, and the national sport of at least two countries, Turkey and Korea) but spawns almost no professional contests?

My guess has always been that it's a big gap in our coverage. The articles on many folk wrestling styles just don't say whether or not any professional circuit exists. There must be trainers and coaches who are in a sense professional, surely? Are they allowed to compete as amateurs? Or do they just not compete? Our articles don't in general say, and in that at least our coverage could do better. The answers may be different for the various styles, of course.

And it's fascinating that wrestling and boxing are the only Olympic Sports that still require amateur status. That seems to imply that they think that there are professional wrestlers, surely? Real ones, I mean?

Happy to be proven wrong. And either way, it's fascinating. Andrewa (talk) 17:55, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Related discussions
See Talk:Blading (professional wrestling) and many other discussions... watch this space and more links may appear. Andrewa (talk) 18:48, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProjects
There's a WikiProject Professional wrestling but it's not obvious which, if any, WikiProjects would be interested in competitive wrestling or in wrestling generally. Talk:Wrestling does not currently indicate any interested WikiProjects. Talk:Grappling currently links to WikiProject Martial arts only. Andrewa (talk) 19:19, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Buryat wrestling
We don't seem to have an article on Buryat wrestling, or does it have another name in English? Andrewa (talk) 14:16, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Interesting article
http://rrca.revues.org/548 Professional wrestling as culturally embedded spectacles in five core countries: the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Mexico and Japan. Andrewa (talk) 18:20, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Gender balance
The article includes many styles, but all the photos appear to show male wrestling. Should female wrestling also be included? --Wavehunter (talk) 16:57, 17 November 2021 (UTC)