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The incredible rise of RAF and why the UFC needs wrestling league to thrive

It turns out Real American Freestyle Wrestling owes as much to Hulk Hogan as it does to a father-son wrestling match. There is a chain between them, connecting the controversial WWE legend to Chad Bronstein via their fellow co-founders: another WWE icon in Eric Bischoff, and one of the US’s top coaches in Izzy Martinez. If you’re an American reader, you’ll easily differentiate between “professional wrestling”, which the late Hogan dominated (allegedly through persistent politicking, mind), and “amateur wrestling”.

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