Both Mace and Mansoor gave an inside look at how SGW operates, revealing the talents live in a nearby community center, call spots while lifting weights, and run rehearsals before the shows. They also touched upon the movement to get SGW a ring, noting that it may not be necessary, both because a ring would eliminate the novelty of wrestling on soft ground, and because the soft ground set up may actually be safer.

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“It’s actually really fascinating because you would never…I don’t know how they came up with this idea, but they basically wet the soil,” Mace said. “They find a good patch of land and they wet it, and then they till it with a hull, and they kind of break it up so it’s about, what would you say, like two inches of broken soil? And that dirt is legit soft for at least the length of one match. It kind of gets patted back down over the course of walking all over it. But the first bumps, when it’s a freshly tilled soft ground wrestling ring is really quite comfortable.”

Whether they continue with the soft ground ring or get an actual wrestling ring, Mansoor is hoping to raise enough money to get SGW to institute one specific change.

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“I would say the only thing that they’re missing is I think they could have a little bit more stable ropes,” Mansoor said. “Maybe some kind of cable, cause right now, I think it’s just twine. And these boys, they really want to do springboards and s**t. So we need to get them real ropes.”

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