Wrestling’s governing body is preparing for what could be the match of its, life. It is holding a special meeting in Moscow to discuss changes to modernize the sport in hopes of staying in the, Olympics. The meeting Saturday comes four months…
In wrestling, as in life, your greatest success won’t come easy. You’ve got to battle through the disappointment, the losses, and the pain. But that’s why the success feels so good.
Growing group of international wrestling federations form a partnership for unified effort to show that wrestling belongs on Olympic program. The Save Olympic Wrestling Coalition has been formed by a number of international wrestling federations to show wrestling should remain…
In the summer of 1996, the eyes of the wrestling world weren’t transfixed on ratings or politics. They were locked onto 27-year-old American Kurt Angle, who was putting the finishing touches on one of the most decorated careers in the…
So, sports colleague supreme John Dudley once commented how there’s no middle ground when it comes to a youth’s initiation into wrestling. He meant amateur wrestling, by the way. Not the Hulk Hogan/Rowdy Roddy Piper/Nature Boy Ric Flair Slaughter/Captain Lou…
As a life-long wrestler and supporter of wrestling, my first thought when hearing the Olympic committee had canceled wrestling for the 2020 Games was”this can’t be true.” Wrestling is an original Olympic sport, and one of the only true amateur…
For many young athletes in East Tennessee, football, just makes sense. Wrestling? Not so much. Hunter Fortner, one of four local boys who won AAU Spring Youth Nationals on March 23 in Kingsport, said he’s learned they’re not so different” but not…
The Bahamas Amateur Wrestling Federation (BAWF) has joined with federations around the Americas in a campaign to reinstate wrestling as an Olympic Sport. The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted in February to drop wrestling from the…
There was a time in the not-to-distant past when, Ultimate Fighting Championship, (UFC) was two million dollars in the hole. Today, it’s, several billion in the black, thanks to the efforts of promotion president, Dana White, (and the checkbook of the Fertitta brothers). Now, White…
