Category Amateur Wrestling

Wrestling With Cancer

By McKENZIE BECKER TEENS IN THE NEWSROOM Editor’s note: On Tuesday doctors told Trevor Machado-Ching that his cancer is in remission. Teens in the Newsroom writer McKenzie Becker spent time with him this summer as he battled non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. OAKDALE…

Kurt Angle to Compete in MMA in 2007

Wrestling legend Kurt “The Machine “Angle, who recently left the WWE after seven years, told Real Fighter magazine that he is in strong discussions to compete in a professional mixed martial arts bout sometime in 2007. In the coming weeks,…

Oklahoma State opens wrestling practice

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) Oklahoma State’s wrestling team begins its fall practice as the Cowboys begin their quest for a fifth straight NCAA title. OSU loses three former NCAA champions and two other NCAA qualifiers from last season’s lineup. But the…

Comedian Carrot Top, Ex-HS Wrestler

At home with Carrot Top By LESLIE GRAY STREETER Cox News Service Tuesday, September 12, 2006 LAS VEGAS ” “So what do you think of this?” Carrot Top is sketching something, leaning over the counter in the kitchen of his…

WWE pulls plug on hard-driving Angle

BY MIKE MOONEYHAM The Post and Courier Kurt Angle didn’t even follow pro wrestling until he joined World Wrestling Entertainment – then known as the World Wrestling Federation – in 1998. He was a 1996 Olympic gold medalist who had…