WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue wrestling team is set to open its season on Saturday with the first practice of the season. The Boilermakers are set for their best season in recent history, returning seven NCAA Championship qualifiers and…
Plans for the USA Wrestling California training facility in northeast Tulare are coming together, sources close to the project said. Private financing for the estimated $50-million facility is lined up, an architect and general contractor have been hired and scouting…
ATHENS, Ohio-Ohio senior Germane Lindsey (Cincinnati, Ohio) has been selected to wrestle in the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) All-Star Classic on Sunday, November 21st at Selland Arena in Fresno, California. Lindsey went 30-9 en route to the NCAA quarterfinals…
By: Brian Lopez-Benchimol Shinya Aoki is probably one of the most reserved fighters in the sport. Although his in-ring antics against Mizuto Hirota at”Dynamite!! 2009″³ would inidicate otherwise, the grappling ace usually keeps to himself and refrains from doing a…
Timmins Wrestling kicked off the start of its 2010-11 season Monday night with a training session at École secondaire catholique Thériault. Neil Bangs, one of the coaches of the club, said they usually get about 30 to 40 athletes” ranging…
Mixed martial arts has always had a difficult time deciding exactly how much it is sport and how much it is fighting. And while virtually every aspect of the sport needs fine tuning in terms of judging criteria and point…
Darrel Lauderdale can remember the day that wrestling got a hold of him. “Somebody told me a long time ago that once you’re in wrestling it gets in your blood and it’s true, it gets in your blood.” He was…
Ryan Bader, a light heavyweight prospect climbing the ranks of a stacked division only four fights into his UFC career, has been on a meteoric rise since his time in”The Ultimate Fighter” house. His rise can quite simply be summed…
When former University of Oklahoma wrestler Jake Hager goes to work, he still has to every now and then sit back to take a breath. Hager wrestles for World Wrestling Entertainment as one of their superstars, and his character,”Jack Swagger,”…
With Matt Hughes employing an amateur wrestling headlock to choke his way to victory over Ricardo Almeida at UFC 117, I figured the time was right to feature some more nasty amateur action”in this case, some slams. Now some of…
