• Shoot wrestling is a Japanese hybrid grappling style and combat sport. Shoot wrestling incorporates techniques from various wrestling, submission grappling...
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    A shoot in professional wrestling is any unplanned, unscripted, or real-life occurrence within a wrestling event. It is a carny term shortened from "straight...
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  • Shootfighting (redirect from Shoot Fighting)
    in professional wrestling, champion of the Japanese Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi (PWFG, a Japanese shoot-style professional wrestling organization) for...
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    holds. Many different wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat sports, and military systems. Wrestling comes in different competitive...
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    Catch wrestling (originally catch-as-catch-can) is a style of wrestling with looser rules than forms like Greco-Roman wrestling. For example, catch wrestling...
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  • event Shoot wrestling, a combat sport Shoot wrestling, a synonym for Catch wrestling, a related combat sport Takedown (grappling), or shoot Shoot, a minced...
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    professional wrestler Satoru Sayama. Shootfighting: A Japanese martial art consisting of Muay Thai and catch wrestling. Combat wrestling (ja): A style of shoot wrestling...
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  • Kempo Niten Ichi-ryū Okinawan kobudō Shindō jinen-ryū Shitō-ryū Shoot Boxing Shoot wrestling Shootfighting Shōrin-ryū Shorinji Kempo Shorinji-Ryu Shōtōkan-ryū...
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    He has studied traditional Okinawan karate, Judo, Jujutsu, Kenpo, Shoot wrestling, Systema, Filipino martial arts, and Jeet Kune Do. He was one of three...
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  • 1985. Shootboxing is a mixture of its two parent combat styles of shoot wrestling and kickboxing, allowing for kicks, punches, knees, elbows, throws...
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    wrestling event where a company's biggest draws wrestle. Compare B-show and C-show. A-team A group of a wrestling promotion's top stars who wrestle at...
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  • Japanese-based Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) was a Japanese professional wrestling promotion from 1984 to 1986, formed by wrestlers who had left New Japan...
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  • Yorinaga Nakamura (category Japanese catch wrestlers)
    also known as Yori Nakamura, is a retired Japanese shoot wrestler and an instructor in shoot wrestling, Jeet Kune Do, Filipino Martial Arts, Silat, and...
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    New Japan Pro-Wrestling (新日本プロレスリング株式会社, Shin Nihon Puroresuringu Kabushiki-gaisha) (NJPW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded on January...
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    Puroresu (redirect from Joshi (wrestling))
    style of professional wrestling that has developed in Japan. The term comes from the Japanese pronunciation of "professional wrestling" (プロフェッショナル・レスリング,...
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    catch wrestling, through which it is an ancestor of freestyle wrestling, American folkstyle wrestling, Brazilian luta livre, Japanese shoot wrestling, and...
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  • Evan Tanner (category Mixed martial artists utilizing wrestling)
    wrestling background, began fighting in 1997 when he was convinced by friends to enter a local MMA tournament hosted by the now defunct Unified Shoot...
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  • This is a list of both active and inactive Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards created by professional wrestling and mixed martial arts (MMA) journalist...
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  • confusion with shooting sports. Compared with the other professional wrestling organizations of the time, such as the New Japan Pro-Wrestling and the Universal...
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    Antonio Inoki (category Mixed martial artists utilizing shoot wrestling)
    adolescence in Brazil, Inoki began his professional wrestling career in the 1960s for the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance (JWA) under the tutelage of Rikidōzan...
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    close-quarters combat (CQC), mixed martial arts (MMA), shoot wrestling and submission wrestling. The early history of judo is inseparable from its founder...
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    Akira Maeda (category Mixed martial artists utilizing shoot wrestling)
    sports show World of Sport (WoS). Maeda helped develop the shoot-style of professional wrestling during the late 1980s. He founded Fighting Network RINGS...
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    in Catch wrestling, Judo, Jujutsu, Sambo, Shoot wrestling, Dishuquan Dog Kung Fu, some schools of Shuai Jiao and other styles of wrestling. Similarly...
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    sports featuring submission holds are: Jujutsu Judo Sambo Catch wrestling Shoot wrestling Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Mixed martial arts The same hold may be called...
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    Japan can be found across several shoot-style professional wrestling promotions like UWF International and Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi, both founded in 1991...
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    (Japanese-Brazilian), catch wrestling (British-American), jujutsu (Japanese), judo (Japanese), freestyle wrestling (British-American), Greco-Roman wrestling (French), karate...
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    Kiyoshi Tamura (category Mixed martial artists utilizing shoot wrestling)
    in catch wrestling and is considered to be one of the greatest shoot wrestlers of all time. Competing exclusively in shoot style wrestling, Tamura began...
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  • known as "Shoot Wrestling". The UWF closed in 1990 and was succeeded in 1991 by the UWFi, which became one of the top professional wrestling promotions...
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    Caol Uno (shoot wrestling), Mach Sakurai (shoot wrestling / judo), Aleksandr Savko (freestyle wrestling), Tito Ortiz (collegiate wrestling and MMA), Megumi...
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  • The Great Wojo (category American male professional wrestlers)
    who could pin him in the ring in a "shoot style" wrestling match. Using both his amateur and professional wrestling skills, Wojciechowski was never defeated...
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