MOSCOW (Reuters) – Three-times Olympic freestyle wrestling champion Buvaisar Saitiev has decided to retire after a career that has spaned nearly two decades. Saitiev, 34, one of only three wrestlers to have won three Olympic titles, was thinking of bidding…
If you’re using Firefox as your web browser, which you should be, you can now get an amateur wrestling persona theme created by WrestlingPod. If you’re not running Firefox, you can download the free web browser for Mac, Windows and…
YOKOHAMA”Greco-Roman wrestling champion Joe Warren upset local favorite Norifumi”Kid”Yamamoto Tuesday at the Dream 9 Featherweight Grand Prix 2009 Second Round. “Kid Yamamoto is a champion, and I respect him,”said the 32-year-old American from the winner’s circle,”but a lot of these…
Dakota Wesleyan University athletic director Curt Hart announced Tuesday afternoon that he has hired former Tiger wrestler and assistant coach Matt Sedivy to be the 10th head wrestling coach in school history. Sedivy, a 2006 graduate of Dakota Wesleyan, emerged…
Seven wrestlers from the Lexington Wrestling Club qualified for the National High School Coaches Association National Tournament with strong showings this weekend at a state qualifying tournament at Trinity High School. Tyler Davis (103) and Keyonne Redfearn (heavyweight) won their…
Lewis talks about return to the mat Randy Lewis created quite a buzz in the wrestling world when he returned to the mat for the first time in 17 years for the Senior Freestyle competition at the Northern Plains Regional…
Sadly, for all too many of us, we’ve lost sight of the purpose of Memorial Day. We think of it as the unofficial kickoff of summer “time to open up the swimming pool, fire up the backyard grill, and gas…
Another honor for Howe MADISON, Wis. Amateur Wrestling News released its All-Rookie Teams in the May issue, and after making it all the way to the NCAA finals at 165 lbs. as a true freshman, Andrew Howe was tabbed the…
NEWTON, Iowa — Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine (WIN) is announcing the winners of six of the magazine’s major awards for 2009. The following is a list of the awards and the recipients: Mike Chapman Impact Award: Scott Casber, Takedown Radio/TV Bob…
By Randy Griffith THE TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT Johnstown’s Carlton Haselrig’s first mixed martial arts cage fight in his hometown started the same way countless others have: With a takedown by the former six-time national NCAA wrestling champion. But Haselrig’s debut in the…
