Wrestling in Moscow

-Wrestling? It is not real! – Wrestling? No, never heard of it…This is how the most people in our country respond to this activity, which has won huge popularity in many countries.

-Wrestling? It is not real! – Wrestling? Is it a hand-to-hand fight? No, never heard of it…

This is how the most people in our country respond to this activity, which has won huge popularity in many countries, and even has become cult in Mexico, USA and Japan.

However, there is a wrestling in Russia, but it is still “the underground”.

Just as at the very beginning 10 years ago, so to the present day the Moscow wrestlers base in the basement of the old soviet culture centre “Avangard”.

The most of matches are held in the same place, which is reequipped from dance hall into extemporary fight arena.

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