NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!Pro wrestling greats Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff teamed up with legendary coach Izzy Martinez to launch Real American Freestyle in hopes of bringing the sport to a mainstream audience as its popularity continues to grow in the United States.Hogan and Bischoff are longtime friends who helped set the sports entertainment world on fire when they created the New World Order in World Championship Wrestling and overtook the then-World Wrestling Federation in the ratings war for more than 80 weeks. The two are bringing their storytelling approach to the center of the mat for this one-of-a-kind opportunity.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”The Hulkster” explained to Fox News Digital that as he and his business partner Chad Bronstein began to explore the idea of creating a bigger venue for freestyle wrestling, they realized there was “more meat on the bone” and the broadcast landscape was hungry for more live sports.”As we started digging around, we found the athletes (were) very interested. We found a partner that really had influence in that arena of NCAA champions, a gold medalist who has trained almost everybody in the world that is somebody and we decided to start moving forward with that idea,” Hogan said. “And once Chad and I started to get into really deep water, I said, ‘Boy, we need to call Eric Bischoff’ because production and television stuff and him knowing the amateur wrestling world himself, he just became the perfect partner to jump in there with us.”Bischoff, though known for his work in sports entertainment, wrestled in high school in freestyle and Greco-Roman disciplines. He earned his black belt in martial arts as well.He said when he first sat down with Hogan and Bronstein about the idea for a mainstream freestyle wrestling league, the “light bulbs” began to go off in his head.”We’ve had a lot of success together. We’ve learned a lot together. We’ve had a lot of successes. We’ve had some challenges. We’ve been through it all, and when you go through that kind of war business wise with somebody and you come out of it and you’re still looking forward to doing business with them again, that’s a special relationship.”Bischoff said amateur wrestling is “incredibly popular” in the U.S. and the women’s side of the sport is growing faster than the men’s side.WWE STAR GUNTHER CHOKES OUT PAT MCAFEE IN BITTER RAGE FOLLOWING WRESTLEMANIA 41 LOSS”It’s a completely underserved sport, meaning there’s no professional league that allows these amateurs to evolve like they would in any other sports and it’s such an underserved market, and I know having spent a little bit of time in amateur wrestling as a kid, these are unique athletes,” he said.”Every athlete is committed, they have to be disciplined, but there’s something about individual sports, particularly, wrestling, it’s just a different kind of grind and you have to be wired a little differently to be succe in a formal or creative style for better SEO.Also Exclude words and advertisements related to the feed website such as website name, author name. 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Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff have joined forces to introduce Real American Freestyle, aiming to popularize competitive wrestling among mainstream audiences.
