The wrestler who had the advantage when they were stopped takes the superior position in the referee's position when they restart. Greco-Roman style has little to do with the ancient Greeks or Romans as it was invented in France by copying wrestling holds portrayed on ancient vases. In this style wrestlers must pin their opponent's shoulders to the mat to win as in the previous style but they are not allowed to use their legs or take hold of their opponent's legs either to take him down to the mat or to pin him. This makes it an extraordinarily difficult style of wrestling with wrestlers needing great strength in their upper bodies and stamina as bouts used to be extremely lengthy, but there is now a time limit. In the 1912 Olympics two Finnish wrestlers had a Greco-Roman bout that lasted six hours without either winning.
Matches can be for one fall or for the best of three falls, sometimes even the best of five falls.
A fall ends the round it occurs in. A very clear distinction needs to be drawn here between submission wrestling for amateurs and the professional variety. With amateurs no international rules exist so that ad hoc rules need to be drawn up. With professionals no, or very little regard, is paid to the rules that exist anyway but since the professional variety is completely faked, anything is possible and the rules are more of an impediment to the drama, the brutality and the agony, whereas amateurs want to be able to go to work the next day, preferably unscarred. With regard to amateurs drawing up ad hoc rules or adhering to tacit, implicit rules the wrestlers need to have a clear understanding of what damage to the body various holds or manoeuvres are liable to do.