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00:00...scripted competition, putting America's best male and female wrestlers head-to-head.
00:04And you're hearing the big announcement right here.
00:07First, you'll be able to watch the inaugural event live on Fox Nation on August 30th.
00:12Alright, here we go.
00:13The league's chief media officer, Eric Bischoff, is here,
00:16is joining us with wrestlers Real Woods and Lance Palmer.
00:19Congratulations to all of you.
00:20Thank you.
00:21Thank you.
00:21Eric, it looks like you have a television partner.
00:25We do indeed, and I could not be happier.
00:28I mean, Fox does it better than anybody, so it's really a blessing.
00:32You're going to be streaming your first event August 30th on Fox Nation.
00:36It's kind of a big deal, isn't it?
00:39I'm pretty excited.
00:39I think it's huge.
00:40It's huge.
00:41I mean, I'll be honest with you, when Chad and I first started talking about it,
00:45he said, man, I think I'm going to...
00:46Chad Bronstein.
00:46Chad Bronstein, my partner, he mentioned, man, we might get a shot at Fox Nation.
00:52I thought, well, okay, the odds of that actually happening are pretty slim, but it's happening.
00:56But Lance, this is the real deal, right?
00:58Real deal.
00:59Yep.
00:59It's freestyle wrestling, so what you'd see in the Olympics, and I mean, it's the best
01:05of the best.
01:06So it's, you know, I'm a former wrestler, current MMA fighter, and we have a few other
01:12MMA fighters on the card who are former wrestlers.
01:15But everybody else, like, real, I mean, they're current world team members and Olympic team
01:19members.
01:20So it's the highest level of freestyle wrestling you can get.
01:23Real, what are you most excited about?
01:24I'm excited about the entertainment value that it's going to bring.
01:27I think the world needs this.
01:29I think this is huge for the combat sport entertainment.
01:33It's just a big, it's a big thing for the world in terms of combat sports.
01:38I find wrestlers probably the most dedicated people, have to do it in isolation, and unless
01:43you're in Iowa or Division I, you don't ever get the applause you need.
01:47And I'm from a huge wrestling town, too.
01:50So what is it going to be like to take it to the next level?
01:53Like, we watch the NCAAs with the president there and everything.
01:56But Eric, how do you get the excitement of college, of Midwest College, and bring it to
02:01the pros?
02:02It's just really exposing them to guys like Lance and Real and Kennedy Blaze and so many
02:06of the other really elite athletes that we have.
02:09Once they see them, once they hear from them, and they understand how dedicated they are,
02:13how much work goes into becoming the elite athletes they are, we just know it's going
02:19to be contagious.
02:20It's combat sports, people love combat sports, and this is really, you know, Bo Nichols said
02:25it best about a week ago, you know, freestyle wrestling really is the cornerstone of MMA.
02:30It's such a big part of it.
02:32They do great in MMA.
02:33I know you're partnering with Hulk Hogan, and so we think of Hulk Hogan when we were growing
02:37up.
02:38He was this persona, and it wasn't real, but this is different, but it is going to have
02:41the entertainment value.
02:43What's the difference?
02:44How are you meshing the two?
02:45If you look at WWE, the way they use music, the production values, for example, we're going
02:52to incorporate a lot of that.
02:53So you're going to have the production value of the WWE, for example, or even a UFC, single
03:00matches.
03:02It gives you such a good base.
03:05I see it in jujitsu, or you see in the UFC, the people that come from the wrestling backgrounds
03:09have such an advantage when they get into the sport.
03:13That's right.
03:13That's right.
03:15Yeah, absolutely.
03:16You know, I'm excited about the fact that this is authentic, you know, and it speaks for
03:22itself.
03:22And that's, I think, the key thing, the key element about Real American Freestyle is that
03:27it is real.
03:28Lance, prediction?
03:30Prediction for the match?
03:31Coach, I'm going out there to get the win.
03:34I've never gone out in my life to just take a loss.
03:38So I haven't been in the wrestling world itself in 15 years, but I wrestle every day training
03:43for fights.
03:44So getting back into freestyle and getting the rule set and everything else, oh, I'm loving
03:49it.
03:50I feel like a new wrestler again.
03:51We're excited.
03:52We're all part of the family.
03:53Thank you.
03:54Watch on Fox Nation, August 30th.