Mercury Pro Wrestling Academy, a part of Rocky Mountain Pro Wrestling, recently brought its classes for kids, beginners and advanced wrestlings to Jeffco Fairgrounds.

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The warm-ups for the advanced class, meanwhile, added "mat exercises and rope work" to the pushups and squats before they got down to the wrestling training proper.

“When I was 15, he dropped me at a wrestling academy — not this one — and subsequently three of my sisters followed me. Now four of us are here training together.” ...