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Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1951 words) |
 | The British style of wrestling is more traditional and technically oriented as opposed to the power moves displayed by their North American counterparts and the high flying lucha libre moves performed by their Mexician counterparts. |
 | At the turn of the 20th century, wrestling was introbuced to the puplic as part of a variety act spice up the limited action involved in the bodybuilder strongman attractions with one of its earlyist stars Cornish-American ex-miner named Jack Carkeek challenging audience members to last 10 minutes with him. |
 | While amateur wrestling continued as a legitimate sport, grappling as a promotional business didn't catch on until the late 1920s when the sucess of the more worked aspects of professional wrestling in America, like gimmickry and submission holds, where introduced to British wrestling. |
| tOA Booking (20977 words) |
 | BCW Shane began walking around the ring shouting his approval towards the crowd; this was going to be a night to remember. |
 | BCW comes back from commercial and the cameras are backstage, Edge is sitting on his locker room stool tying up the laces on his boots. |
 | Shane is dressed in his wrestling gear of; fl mixed with orange wrestling shorts and a fl t-shirt with BCW on the front in orange letters. |