Wrestling is a very old sport.The first sign of wrestling came about in B.C.E in Greece as a bloody brutal sport, due to the fact that they were used to bloody sports.For many years,wrestling evolved from there on in Greece until a french man named Exbroyat went there and took the sport to France.Once the sport was in France,he started to make changes.In eighteen eighty-four he made laws that took out moves below the waist and the ones he thought were to brutal.With the help of Exbroyat wrestling became the most popular sport in Europe. After the publicity of the sport, even though it was hard to spread things around back then,the sport spread and fans grew.An other person heard about the new, exiting sport that was taking the continent by storm and came to see what was so great about this sport.The man was an Italian named Basilo Barttoi he discovered the sport and brought it to Italy.With wrestling taking over the western half of the world they had no choice but to put it in the olympics in eighteen ninety-six.Greco Roman wrestling had became the most popular sport in the world.
When over half the world went to Greco Roman Wrestling a new form evolved called Catch Wrestling in the U.K. and the U.S .the normal form of wrestling was people slamming and punching each other,but the U.S turned to the extreme.They started to think they could make it more exciting when they put it on t.v and sell more seats.They started to make unusual matches that were even more brutal than other places could even imagine.Putting matches in this way led to the rises of the businesses like Ring of Honor,World Wrestling Entertainment(worlds biggest company,)and U.S Xtreme Wrestling.Wrestling has a interesting history from two guys fighting to the olympics.
When over half the world went to Greco Roman Wrestling a new form evolved called Catch Wrestling in the U.K. and the U.S .the normal form of wrestling was people slamming and punching each other,but the U.S turned to the extreme.They started to think they could make it more exciting when they put it on t.v and sell more seats.They started to make unusual matches that were even more brutal than other places could even imagine.Putting matches in this way led to the rises of the businesses like Ring of Honor,World Wrestling Entertainment(worlds biggest company,)and U.S Xtreme Wrestling.Wrestling has a interesting history from two guys fighting to the olympics.