Wrestling is a fundamental combat sport.  A good base for MMA.
I used to watch Georgia Championship Wrestling back in the day.  I loved Andre the Giant .
WCW Saturday Night
WCW Saturday Night is a weekly Saturday night TV show on TBS that was produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Launched in 1971 initially by Georgia Championship Wrestling, the program existed through various incarnations under different names before becoming "WCW Saturday Night" in 1992. Although initially the anchor show of the Ted Turner-backed wrestling company, the September 1995 premiere of "WCW Monday Nitro" airing on sister station Turner Network Television usurped the show's once preeminent position in the company, as the primary
a modality known as "Combat Sambo", which adds punches, kicks, elbows and knees, making it a proto-MMA hybrid fighting style. Sambo is popular in Russia and eastern Europe, where it is taught as a complement to Judo and Wrestling training, Sambo also provides a good base for MMA with all-around skills for combining grappling and striking. Some notable Sambo fighters that transitioned into MMA include: Fedor Emelianenko, Igor Vovchanchyn, Oleg Taktarov and Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Common disciplines Wushu Sanshou/Sanda/Kung