RealPro Wrestling. The name of this new organization says mountains about the future of the sport of wrestling.    It almost seems sad that those in the sport of wrestling must now use the word "real" when we are discussing the makeup of a professional wrestling organization. Undoubtedly, this is due to the widespread popularity of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and others like them.    Of course, following extensive market research and hopefully the addition of a new television show, the name of this organization will be changed.    But RealPro Wrestling co-founders Toby Willis and Matt Case found a niche.    They, unlike any others before them in wrestling, not only had the money to put behind the wheel of a professional wrestling organization, but they had the incentive and drive to do it as well.    Both were wrestlers at Northwestern Univ., not necessarily the breeding grounds for the top amateur wrestlers, but it is the breeding grounds for people who are a lot smarter than me.    But, like the rest of us, they got sick of explaining that the wrestling in which we do is not the stuff you see on television.    FILA could learn a lesson or two from RealPro Wrestling. An action meter was used to weigh passivity during the match. When a wrestler's action meter hit the red, he was placed down. Go in the red three times and you are disqualified. Score a takedown, and your meter goes back to full.    The key to the action meter is that the wrestler can see how the officials feel about the amount of offensive activity he is using. What a genius concept. Keep the wrestlers in the know.    The push-out rule was more effective than anyone could have imagined.    Wrestlers were clearly driving to stay in bounds when they were close to the edge. In other words, it created more action, which was the whole purpose of this pilot anyways. Make wrestling more exciting for the average sports fan while not changing the rules and styles that our sport currently abides by.    The RealPro Wrestling pilot went off without a hitch. Willis and Case would have you believe otherwise, but then again, I didn't go to Northwestern either.    The crowd was excited, the wrestlers were excited and I was excited. It was like Christmas for all of us involved, except that we were in a movie studio and there was no snow at all.    The concepts of the action meter and the push-out rule are as unique as the idea of an ice cream scooper that melts the ice cream while you scoop. I own one of those now, thanks to Pampered Chef.    At first I questioned why everyone kept calling the mat area the ring. I thought that this was exactly what the RealPro Wrestling people wanted to avoid. But then I took a closer look, and it was a ring.    It was a gladiator-style ring. A round mat (not square), padding off the sides and stuntmen to shove fallen wrestlers back to that mat.    Then I remembered something Willis and Case had told me the first time I ever met with them. They were clear and they were precise.    "Why should we sit back and let companies such as the WWE use our name and our phrases? We shouldn't just sit back and let them do it or even be scared of them. We need to go after them. This is our sport, not theirs, and we need to do whatever we can to protect it."    I cannot remember who said it, but I will never forget the words spoken.    I first met with Willis and Case nearly a year and a half ago in Des Moines, Iowa. It was evident during that meeting that they were passionate about starting RealPro Wrestling. They did not want to start this organization to make money for themselves. They already had their own money. They wanted to start this organization to help others in amateur wrestling make money, and to make heroes at of our athletes.    Remember the slogan USA Wrestling used at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team Trials?    "Real Wrestling, Real Heroes."    Rulon Gardner was one of those heroes that year. He was not favored to even make the Olympic team. Matt Ghaffari was. But Gardner persevered and battled through all the doubts that clouded the rest of our minds. Not only did he upset Ghaffari, he upset perhaps the greatest wrestler of all time, Alexander Karelin, to win Olympic gold.    Willis and Case want to re-create this heroism on a larger scale. They want fans to want to come to the U.S. Nationals, the U.S. World Team Trials or even the Sunkist Kids/ASU International Open, to not only watch wrestling, but to watch the heroes that they have seen on television.    Many different professional wrestling leagues have been attempted. None have succeeded. But in true wrestling fashion, Willis and Case refused to sit back and watch our sport be killed off. College administrators and now the International Olympic Committee feel that our sport is not interesting enough, that it can't draw fans or that people outside of wrestling don't understand the rules.    The gut feeling is that most of those people have never seen a wrestling match or attempted to learn about the sport. RealPro Wrestling could help change that.    After the pilot taping, we who attended now know one thing. It will happen.    And when all is said and done, the real heroes may be Willis and Case.    Note: The Center Circle will appear on TheMat.com on Thursdays.