What better way to spend Halloween than in something you’re comfortable in? Like wrestling gear. If you’re a wrestler this is quite possibly the easiest costume too. Here’s what you’ll need: Wrestling Shoes (ones you’re not wearing on the mat…
Keep Olympic Wrestling Alive!
Not exactly sure what the video is for, but it’s pretty sweet to watch. Needless to say, don’t wrestle in traffic.
It’s a familiar refrain we’ve all heard before: an amateur wrestler converts to mixed martial arts fighter after a career in the singlet has come to a close. But maybe this time the situation is, well, a little more, unique. Meet…
A decision by the International Olympic Committee “which is located in Switzerland and not Greece, home of the Olympics “to strike one of he most ancient and revered original sports “wrestling “from the games as of 2020 in favor of…
World amateur wrestling body FILA has brought its campaign to save the sport in the Olympics to its birthplace, Greece. FILA, with the help of the Greek wrestling federation, has organised a senior international tournament in Olympia this weekend to…
From the very infancy of the ancient Olympic Games, as early as 708 B.C. on the plains of Olympia, wrestling was there. Described by the International Olympic Committee as being “highly valued as a form of military exercise without weapons,” matches…
Wrestling will return, more sports possible, says IOC presidential hopeful Denis Oswald. Baseball/softball and squash are the other two shortlisted sports and the IOC will elect one winning sport at its session in Buenos Aires in September. International Olympic Committee…
There is an idea being floated for college wrestling to bring together the dual and individual national tournaments. I have a feeling that the immediate feeling among coaches and fans of the sport would be a negative one. There is…
With sports leaders gathering in St. Petersburg, Russia, this week for a global convention, three high-profile campaigns will be played out at the same time in an unusual confluence of issues that will set the tone for the future of…
