Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Gill Coliseum gears up for the annual tussle of college wrestling best teams and student athletes MANHEIM, Pa. “The 2013 NWCA/Cliff Keen Division I National Dual Meet Championships Presented by Hibiclens and the Marines, also dubbed as “Mat Mayhem,” are…
Ladarious Jackson gazed across the courtroom at the muscular man in shackles. It was like looking at himself. He thought about their happier days, young brothers diving off furniture, playing like pro wrestlers. They escaped their sad reality, if only…
For the last four years and change, Henry Cejudo, has been a golden goose for MMA. Coming out of the 2008 Beijing Games where he claimed freestyle wrestling gold at 121 pounds, Cejudo was 21 years old and the youngest American wrestler…
The Air Force wrestling team heads to West Point, N.Y., this Saturday, Feb. 2, for the 19th-annual All-Academy Championships, hosted this year by Army. ABOUT THE ALL-ACADEMY CHAMPIONSHIPS… The All-Academy Championships feature teams from eight service academies–Air Force, Army, The…
AMES ” Iowa State wrestling coach Kevin Jackson sat down and spoke. Mike Moreno, his sophomore 165-pounder, listened. “‘Mike, you know you’ve come a long ways in a short period of time,’” Jackson recalled saying on a recent bus trip.…
In front of crowd of nearly nine thousand fans, Minnesota and Iowa split the dual, winning five bouts apiece, for a 15-15 tie. The deciding factor came down to a factor of tiebreaker criteria, in which case the Hawkeyes came…
You learn confidence. You learn self-control. You learn to stand on your own while also, learning, teamwork. You learn so much by participating in any sport that every kid should join a sport at some point; even if it’s, just, for the social skills.
Wrestlers have to endure a lot of pain in wrestling, but Michael McComish got more than he expected with a light fixture fell from the rafters and landed on top of him. The video leads up to the incident, if…
I’ve been toying with the idea of, showcasing, some of the great wrestling photos others are taking. I’ve done some testing and I like what we’ve come up with. So today we’re rolling out Instagram Wrestling Photos for all! Now, there…
Eat. Sleep. Train. Wrestling. The harder you work, the more limits you will break. Don’t stop just because someone or something tells you to.
Don’t let anyone stop you. Train. Sweat. Win. Lose. Learn. Fight. Wrestle.
It doesn’t matter how much talent you have, if you don’t work hard to maintain it, you’ll lose it.