Wrestling began as a sport at its best. Back around 708 BC the Greeks started having wrestling matches at the start of the antediluvian Olympics. This lasted over many years. These wrestlers were in the brawls for the sport of it.

Unlike today’s professional wrestling, when what you find is simply an elaborate stage with many acts of violence, vulgarity, and twisted reality occur. While some think this soap opera wrestling with its many violent dramatics is acting, many find themselves believing it is real. This is far from wrestling at its best when you have many more actors than wrestlers.

Its roots are actually within the theory of wrestling within. Cain and Able fought and in the end one died as a result. These first wrestlers of the sort brought about a sport that has gone through many changes since.

From there, it eventually wound up in the sports within high school and college level athletics. In these matches, there are three periods of two minutes each. In some cases the amount of time for the periods will vary. The wrestlers don’t simply jump into a fight, rather the wrestling matches require quite a bit of training on rules, regulations, various moves, and other things that keep the sport clean, challenging, and of course sporting at all levels.

Good wrestlers in this circuit need to know the Greco-Roman, freestyle, and folk styles of wrestling. Beyond these they need to know competition rules and be assigned to fair wrestling weight classes. The rules extend to cover mat activity, score, and define wrestling penalties as well. The official rules are kept to, and enforced. These are the terms the wrestlers have to abide by in these school wrestling matches.

The scoring for wrestling is based on points for the moves. Points are issued to wrestlers based on what takedowns, reversals, exposures, escapes, and submissions occur within the wrestling match. Wrestlers need to know this well to succeed with fair play. Stepping out of the bounds of the mat can result in penalties of lost points for the wrestler as well.

Wrestling officials and wrestling coaches have rules in the wrestling match that they need to follow. Overall, their purposes come down to watching the match and being sure the wrestlers are within the rules, as well as calling the points for the various scores and penalties.

Some of these school level wrestlers eventually join the stage shows of professional wrestling, which sad to say is more acting than wrestling.