Shoot wrestling

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Shoot wrestling or shoot-style is a style of Japanese professional wrestling that emphasizes realistic and combat-oriented techniques and presentation, incorporating techniques from various wrestling, submission grappling and kickboxing styles. The term "Shoot Wrestling" has also been used more broadly for fighting systems derived from or influenced by shoot-style wrestling. The techniques developed in shoot-style wrestling were later adapted into legitimate combat sports, contributing to the development of systems such as Shooto and shootfighting, and influencing early Japanese mixed martial arts (MMA). Professional wrestlers of this scene increasingly incorporated more realistic or "full-contact" techniques into their matches to heighten their intensity, while diminishing or eschewing some of the theatrical elements and acrobatics of mainstream professional wrestling. The style incorporated techniques from martial arts and combat sports such as catch-as-catch-can wrestling, judo, karate...

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