Hopefully not too far in the future the synergy between the events I covered last weekend in New York and this coming weekend in Los Angeles will be obvious.      I spent the bulk of last Saturday at Madison Square Garden for the six-hour boxing card headlined by the triumphant return to the ring of Felix "Tito" Trinidad, who won by eighth-round TKO over Ricardo Mayorga. I was also there for a press conference before that show promoting the Nov. 13 card at the Garden featuring WBA and IBF heavyweight titles fights and at least three more matches involving the big boys. And after Trinidad-Mayorga, there was the postfight press conference.      This coming weekend I will be in Los Angeles for the taping of the first season of shows for the new Real Pro Wrestling league. Those shows will begin airing on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005, at 4 PM ET/PT, for the next fifteen weeks, on the PAX broadcast television network in the U.S.     I reported on many of the comments made by a diverse group of boxing people who were at the Garden in various capacities in a new piece on Boxingranks.com. It is called "Strong Statements in Many Accents at MSG Saturday Night."     There are comments from Hall of Fame fighter Jose Torres on Trinidad's return; by promoter Don King lambasting the monopoly practices by the pay cable arm of the Time Warner media monopoly, HBO; by top welterweight contender Zab Judah, who is annoyed at the disrespect showed him by HBO's Larry Merchant after his fight at the Garden Saturday night; by WBA heavyweight champ John Ruiz who fights Andrew Golota Nov. 13; by IBF heavyweight champ Chris Byrd who fights Jameel McCline, also on Nov. 13; by WBA welterweight champ Jose Rivera about his recovery from a recent injury; and about how many members of the boxing media were ill-treated Saturday night at the Garden by, among others, HBO.     This article can be seen simply by visiting http://boxingranks.com/ .     I will also be reporting on the debut season's tapings of Real Pro Wrestling for the ADCC News ( http://news.adcombat.com/ ), Grappling, and also Boxingranks.com. You read that right: Boxingranks.com is going to begin to expand its coverage to other combat sports besides the sometimes-sweet science.     The idea that the various combat sports are close cousins and ought to be treated as a group is spreading. The clash of styles advocated by the Gracies among many others, and the resultant development of its own hybrid style in the mixed martial arts, was no doubt a catalyst to this development.      While in Los Angeles I intend to write a sort of Real Pro Wrestling blog for ADCC News. The reason is that the results are being embargoed until after they air on television. Since this is an invitation-only event, with seats set aside for a small number of fans as well as members of the wrestling community and the media, it is not comparable to an event held at a public arena and only telecast on tape-delay later. Those are fair game for instant reporting; this is not, especially since Real Pro Wrestling is just getting off the ground.     This issue, by the way, has come up regarding the embargoing of results by the two boxing "reality" shows, the failing "The Next Great Champ," which has just been bumped from the Fox broadcast network to their smaller cable network Fox Sports Net, and NBC's "The Contender," which is scheduled to begin in January.      Both of these boxing shows were taped in California, and thus fell under the regulations of the California State Athletic Commission. According to an article in Wednesday's New York Times by Richard Sandomir, the commission "waived the requirement that results of the tape-recorded fights be reported in the same timely fashion that traditional bouts are reported. The Los Angeles Times is suing to get the results released."     The situation with Real Pro Wrestling is entirely different. For one, they do not fall under the control of the California commission. Real Pro Wrestling may have to deal with state commissions in other states, but California law makes no mention of anything that can be interpreted as including real wrestling on a professional basis. Nevada law might include it as a "combative sport," as well as other states, but not California.     More importantly, the reporting requirement exists to protect fighters. Also according to this article, "The California commission required that the boxers be suspended until the final bout to make sure they don't take another fight until the series ends," which is in April.     Competing at Real Pro Wrestling is much less likely to result in similar medical suspensions; you don't get one of those if you are pinned or lose by tech fall. Also, the athletes will be wrestling long before this series ends in May. Many of them will be back on the mats in a few weeks, at tournaments including the 2004 Sunkist Kids/Arizona State International Open, Oct. 29-30. And how the wrestlers fare at the Real Pro Wrestling tapings will have no major effect on their standing in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, since these are different styles in different circuits, held under the rules of FILA, the international wrestling federation. In the boxing "reality" shows, the matches are real, commission-controlled fights that do count on the fighters' records.     Down the road, of course, Real Pro Wrestling hopes to run live matches on national television. These tapings are a step towards that goal.     How far off are we from the day when one Saturday the Garden will be filled for a major boxing card, and the next Saturday for Real Pro Wrestling? We don't know, but don't snicker, because in the early part of the 20th Century the old Garden was filled to the rafters for exactly that, the Frank Gotch-era version of real pro wrestling.     I once told some Garden officials about that history, and they did not seem particularly aware of it, although they were interested in it. If Real Pro Wrestling can pull this thing off, we will have another combat sport with a mass audience in America. And that will be good for the combat sports as a whole.