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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.

03:15Yeah, 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.

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