Unless otherwise stated, all professional wrestling matches in Pure Power Wrestling will be contested under the following rules.
Matches can end at any time by a three count pinfall, verbal or physical submission, referee stoppage or by disqualification at the referee’s discretion for repeated violation of the following rules:
The following maneuvers are legal
Long count
Tag team match rules and regulations:
Matches can end at any time by a three count pinfall, verbal or physical submission, referee stoppage or by disqualification at the referee’s discretion for repeated violation of the following rules:
- No hair pulling, eye gouging, strangle holds, thrusts to the throat or biting
- No pulling trunks, masks, or any other equipment
- No straight punches or kicks with point of toe
- Failing to break an illegal hold before the referee’s FIVE COUNT
- The use of any foreign object
- Any interference with the duties of the referee
- Continuing to abuse a defeated opponent
- Use of the piledriver hold
- Any interference by managers, valets, seconds, or corner men
- Intentional punching or kicking in the groin or kidney area
The following maneuvers are legal
- Judo chops; elbow strikes; knee strikes; forearm strikes; bolo punches; instep, shin and flat-of-foot kicks
- The ropes may be used to gain momentum.
- Contestants may spring against ropes – as in tackles and other such maneuvers – providing the contact with the rope is momentary.
- Maneuvers delivered off of the top rope, or springing off of other ropes are considered legal.
- It is legal to continue wrestling your opponent until any portion of his body comes in contact with the ropes and the referee calls for a break (wrestlers are cautioned to protect themselves on the break).
Long count
- In the event that one or both wrestlers are outside the ring, they shall have a ten count in which to re-enter the ring.
- The count shall continue only while the referee is in the ring and any remaining contestant is in a neutral corner making no effort to impede his opponent’s return to the ring.
- In the event that one or both wrestlers are in a prone position on the canvas – and in the judgement of the referee temporarily unable to wrestle – they shall have a ten count as counted off by the referee to regain a vertical base.
- Any wrestler taking a full ten-count in the above circumstances shall be declared the loser of the match.
Tag team match rules and regulations:
- In the event one member of a tag team is unable to wrestle or fails to make an appearance: his partner has the option of finding a substitute, forfeiting the match, or facing two opponents by himself.
- Only one member of a tag team is to be in the ring at any given time while the match is in progress. A five second transition period is permitted to facilitate wrestlers on a team exchanging places in the ring.
- Wrestlers on the same team can exchange places in the ring only after a legal tag has been accomplished
- This must consist of a wrestler inside the perimeter of the ring ropes using one of his hands to make physical contact with one of the hands of his partner outside the perimeter of the ring ropes.
- The outside partner shall be in a standing position, with one one hand on the tag rope or top turnbuckle, both feet on the mat and one arm over the top rope.
- A tag shall not be allowed if the wrestler on the outside of the ring is not appropriately positioned.
- The referee may, at his discretion, disallow any tag which he does not see or which he has reason to believe did not occur in accordance with the above stipulations.
- Unless otherwise contractually stipulated: a tag team event may be won (or a fall therein may be won) by defeating only one member of the opposing team.
- Tag team save rule: disqualification may be called when one team member saves another on any sure pinning or submission combination MORE THAN TWICE.