I believe that the answers to what is a true APBT are becoming more vague every few years. With all the paper hanging, BYBs, overbreeding of pets, misnomers when it comes to genetics-linebreeding-inbreeding, Dog Shows (performance vs looks) ect...we will never get back to the true APBT except in name. There will be a minority that are careful about breeding and will do thier best to keep the APBT as close to thier past as possible. The rest will continue to breed based solely on conformation or weight pulling ect. and will claim they have a purebred APBT... Maybe that is better for tha breed in the long run since I truely believe that most people have no idea and should not own an APBT as it should be...