Olympians, national champions join Hulk Hogan's Real American Freestyle

Real American Freestyle announced the additions of a fistful of superstar champion wrestlers to its roster connected Thursday with the archetypal lawsuit lone months away.

David Carr, Kyle Dake, Trent Hidlay, Kyle Snyder and Aaron Brooks volition enactment successful the unscripted wrestling series. The 5 men participate the league via SuckerPunch Entertainment, a sports absorption bureau that specializes successful combat sports.

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Aug. 9, 2024; Paris, France; Aaron Brooks (USA) celebrates aft defeating Javrail Shapiev (UZB) successful a men's freestyle 86kg bronze medal lucifer during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games astatine Champ-de-Mars Arena. (John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports)

"David, Kyle, Aaron, Trent, and Kyle correspond the champion of the best, and that’s who we’re targeting for Real American Freestyle," pro wrestling fable Hulk Hogan, the commissioner of Real American Freestyle, said successful a quality release. "Our extremity is to springiness these athletes an accidental to proceed their careers, make a level for greatness, and animate a bequest that lasts

Carr was a two-time nationalist champion astatine Iowa State arsenic good arsenic an under-20 satellite champion. Dake won a bronze medal astatine the Tokyo and Paris Olympics arsenic good arsenic a four-time nationalist champion astatine Cornell.

Brooks was a four-time nationalist champion astatine Penn State and won a bronze medal astatine the Paris Olympics. Hidlay was a four-time All-American but was ne'er capable to triumph the nationalist title astatine N.C. State. He won the ACC rubric 4 times.

April 20, 2024; State College, Pennsylvania, USA; Kyle Dake (left) wrestles Jason Nolf (right) successful the 74-kilogram Freestyle Championship Final during time 2 of the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team Trials astatine Bryce Jordan Center astatine Penn State.  (Matthew O'Haren-USA TODAY Sports)

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Snyder is known arsenic "Captain America." The erstwhile Ohio State prima was the youngest-ever jock to triumph a world, NCAA and Olympic title successful the aforesaid year. He was besides the archetypal Olympic golden medalist to instrumentality to college. He served connected the President’s Council connected Sports, Fitness and Nutrition during President Donald Trump’s archetypal term.

Ben Askren, Kennedy Blades, Zahid Valencia were announced arsenic the archetypal wrestlers to articulation Real American Freestyle upon its launch.

Hogan and Eric Bischoff explained to Fox News Digital past period they are trying to marque freestyle wrestling mainstream.

"It’s a wholly underserved sport, meaning there’s nary nonrecreational league that allows these amateurs to germinate similar they would successful immoderate different sports and it’s specified an underserved market, and I know, having spent a small spot of clip successful amateur wrestling arsenic a kid, these are unsocial athletes," Bischoff said.

Aug. 11, 2024; Paris, France; Kyle Snyder (USA) wrestles during his nonaccomplishment to Amirali Azarpira (IRI) successful a menís freestyle 97kg bronze medal lucifer during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games astatine Champ-de-Mars Arena.  (Grace Hollars-USA Today Sports)

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"Every jock is committed, they person to beryllium disciplined, but there’s thing astir idiosyncratic sports, particularly, wrestling, it’s conscionable a antithetic benignant of grind, and you person to beryllium wired a small otherwise to beryllium palmy astatine it."

The archetypal acceptable of matches is acceptable for Aug. 30.

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