Category Amateur Wrestling

Ten Steps To Wrestling Greatness

Want to, succeed, as a wrestler? Here are ten things you should keep in mind. Make a Commitment Set Your Goals Plan Out Your Year Get On The Mat No Time To Waste Build Yourself Seek Out The Best Take the Initiative…

Mixed Martial Arts: Climbing the ladder

Carnell Giles calls himself a teddy bear. You might have a tough time telling that to anyone who has met him in the cage, however. “I’m like the biggest teddy bear ever,” said Giles, the Columbus Township resident who turned…

Derailed by suspension in 2012, Popeâ€™s Climmons eyes the success that he missed.

Wrestling is more than just you and just the sport. Any, athlete, must realize that one error in judgement can cause the end of your season. If you want to be on the mat, then you have to be good off the…

Anticipation Mounts as the 2013 NWCA/Cliff Keen National Dual Meet Championships Approach

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…

Pasco County Florida wrestling champ, Ladarious Jackson, finds new beginning in MMA

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…

U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Henry Cejudo Coming To MMA

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…

Air Force Wrestlers Head to All-Academy Championships

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…

Cyclonesâ€™ Moreno in better place in 2013

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.…

Tiebreaker Lifts Iowa Over Minnesota, 16-15

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…

The best relationship is with sports, because all sports can do is make you a better, stronger, person

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.

A large light fixture crashes onto a wrestler during a high school wrestling match!

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…

Introducing Instagram Photo Galleries

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…