Professional wrestling exempt from combative sports ban

Professional wrestling will not be subject to a year-long combative sports ban, Edmonton city council decided Tuesday morning.
“Wrestling got caught up in the much more complicated issues of fighter safety of mixed martial arts and boxing, and that was never our intent,” said Edmonton mayor Don Iveson. “And we are continuing to work through as quickly as possible the issues around mixed martial arts and boxing, but wrestling we were able to put back in business because they are