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  1. Olympic and "professional" wrestling are
  2. completely different. One is a sport, and the
  3. other is strictly show business. In inter-
  4. national amateur competition, like the
  5. Olympics, matches consist of two three-
  6. minute rounds. A contestant scores points
  7. as a result of successful maneuvers
  8. against his opponent. If time runs out
  9. without one wrestler having "pinned" the
  10. other, the wrestler with the most points is
  11. declared the winner. There are 10 weight
  12. classes in Olympic wrestling, ranging from
  13. light fly-weight to super heavyweight. 
  14.  
  15. Professional wrestlers are basically super
  16. heavyweight actors. The "wrestlers" are
  17. either "good" or "bad" guys and they pre-
  18.