shoot wrestling

noun

A combat sport derived from professional wrestling which is not freestyle but which allows the inclusion of unscripted moves where the combatants actually try to hurt one another.

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Meanings

nounshoot wrestling (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA combat sport derived from professional wrestling which is not freestyle but which allows the inclusion of unscripted moves where the combatants actually try to hurt one another.

    And a lot of people don't realize what he really did learn on the shoot wrestling type side.

    2013, Steven Johnson, Greg Oliver, Mike Mooneyham, The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: Heroes and Icons, →ISBN
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    The second reason for the disappearance of legitimate shoot wrestling was that it allowed promoters to hold all of the power in the business.

    2012, Zachary Ingle, David M. Sutera, Gender and Genre in Sports Documentaries: Critical Essays, →ISBN, page 150

    As his in-ring career wound down, Gotch trained countless Japanese standouts, including those who helped bring shoot wrestling to the forefront in that country.

    2013, Larry Matysik, 50 Greatest Professional Wrestlers of All Time: The Definitive Shoot, →ISBN

    When the legitimacy went out of the sport at the end of the 1920s, and professional wrestling matches started being staged with predetermined endings, the art of shoot wrestling went underground.

    2015, Bob Backlund, Robert H. Miller, Backlund, →ISBN
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