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Mixed wrestling as it is known today has a level of prevalence over the internet. It existed before in other forms in professional wrestling and other venues starting in the 1970s. It was simply wrestling between men and women. Around this time female bodybuilding was emerging having no relation to wrestling. These two separate sports activities would later merge to form modern mixed wrestling. There would be branching off into session wrestling in the female bodybuilding subculture. Today, it is an internet empire of mixed wrestling websites. Bill Wick was the pioneer of mixed wrestling producing wrestling videos with some of the strongest female bodybuilders.Bill Wick was born in 1944 and spent most of his youth in Pennsylvania. Wick also served in the US Army conducting operations in Nicaragua and most of Central America in the 1980s .He produced and continues to make mixed wrestling videos. He may have not have been the first one to film mixed wrestling matches, but he was ahead of his time realizing there was a market for it. Bill Wick’s market appealed to the casual fan and to the hardcore schmoe. Although there are many viewers of mixed wrestling material, few can recognize the name Bill Wick. His story is a fascinating one and reveals much about unconventional business ventures.