Having become a business factor, sports have become a show for mass needs. Public communication /media has annexed sports, in such a degree, that great part of sports rules had to be transformed according to the needs of media. The power of the media is out of doubt. But the wrestling has to pay a heavy price for these frequent changes in the rules lacking any scientific demanding.The number of falls, and technical points for a time unit has decreased, which unambiguously means the devaluation of the contextual value of wrestling, although the length of the bouts shows the same tendency. It is time to reverse the negative trend.
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