The 600 Pound Man, featuring my mom and The Batlord as the 600 Pound Man.

You got it all wrong, boy. Your mom is the 600£ Woman cause that's what I paid her.

I knew you liked em cheap.

We don't all have UPS money to throw at gutter sluts.

The History of Pro Wrestling as told by Blank.

Chapter 1: The Origin Story: Catch-as-Catch-Can Wrestling

There isn't much to say about Catch wrestling. It's a style of wrestling in which all holds are permitted. Catch wrestling is often credited and seen as the start of what would become pro wrestling. Though the sport was a real athletic competition while it's child, pro wrestling, is a scripted item.

Catch wrestling was often used as a circus side show and went from place to place. The competition lacked rules as a way to allow wrestlers of multiple different styles could compete against eachother to discover who had the best style. In a sense it was the original MMA. The final catch practitioners would actual play a crucial role in the creation of MMA.

The artform is pretty much dead in modern times. The people who were tought it all changed styles to a more advanced modern version. Much of the original catch wrestling techniques have slowly been removed from pro wrestling and their parts in MMA have been replaced with modern more effective techniques.

If you are interested in seeing what catch wrestling probably would have looked like, I'll suggest checking out the Pancrase matches of Minoru Suzuki. Suzuki was trained by Karl Gotch whom was one of the final true catch wrestling practitioners. Though Suzuki's MMA matches are still not exact replicas of what early catch wrestling would have looked like.

The History of Pro Wrestling as told by Blank.

Chapter 2: Fixing a Sport: How Wrestling Became Predetermined

Pro Wrestling became fixed by three men. Professional wrestler Ed "Strangler" Lewis, his manager Billy Sandow, and creative visionary Toots Mondt (all of them were wrestlers, but only Lewis was a wrestler during the years it became fixed). The three would be called The Gold Dust Trio.

Ed Lewis was an exceptional wrestler. One of the best ever. He was so good that he could defeat anyone in the ring. In the 1920s Sandow was looking for a new Sparring partner to train with Lewis. Fellow pro wrestler Toots Mondt would be hired to fill this role.

Catch Wrestling was in a decline of popularity since Frank Gotch, the first pro wrestling superstar. Fans were tired of the deliberately slow pace of the matches.

That's when Mondt came up with Slam Bang Western Style Wrestling. Mondt would include in this aspects of boxing and other contact sports. He would also invent radical new moves like body slams, suplexes, and more. Mondt would also begin and perfect the art of the finish, the scripted end to a match.

The combination of Lewis' star-power and wrestling prowess, Sandow's business savvy practices, and Mondt's creative vision for wrestling would quickly take over professional wrestling and become the standard for the scene.

The group would dissolve in 1928 but would leave a lasting impression on the sport that still persists to this very day.

The History of Pro Wrestling as told by Blank.

Chapter 3: The first NWA: The Rise and Fall of the first NWA

In the 1920's the boxing industry was mostly governed and sanctioned by the NBA, the National Boxing Association. The NBA eventually was inspired to also govern pro wrestling. They were inspired by the fact that there were multiple multiple world champions within wrestling.

In time the NBA started the National Wrestling Association. With Jim Londos recognized as the first NWA World Champion on June 6, 1930 the NWA was ready to begin sanctioning pro wrestling.

Eventually the title would be won on July 10, 1948 by Loun Thesz. On November 27, 1949 Lou Thesz would win the National Wrestling Alliance's World Heavyweight Championship. This would fold the championships into one. This action would effectively end the first NWA. National Wrestling Association would lose all of its power in wrestling 'til its abandonment in 1980.