Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
By Craig Franzen CN wrestling correspondent With five Olympic Gold Medalist wrestlers, Iowa State is in some select company. This Friday, in accordance with the World Team Trials at Hilton Coliseum this weekend, ISU will honor its five living greats…
TakeDown Wrestling Radio is pleased to be able to provide coverage of the World Team Trials this weekend. This event features the best wrestlers in the nation competing in the three Olympic styles of the sport: men’s freestyle, women’s freestyle…
John Fuller Kristie Marano of the New York Athletic Club was on track to compete in the Olympic Games last year. She had defeated World silver medalist Sara McMann in the U.S. Nationals and was in the Olympic Trials finals.…
Gary Abbott/USA Wrestling College Sports Television (CSTV) has notified USA Wrestling that the World Team Trials broadcast will premier on CSTV on Saturday, July 2 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. This event features the best wrestlers in the nation competing…
LOS ANGELES “The RealProWrestling league on Fox Sports Net crowned eight individual weight class champions in its inaugural season, and the Iowa Stalkers captured the team championship. Dough Schwab, at 145 pounds, helped Iowa to the team title with 91…
BY DAVID JONES, Of The Patriot-News “I choked. That’s all there is to it.” This is Preakness-winning jockey Jeremy Rose remembering one of the monumental meets of his career. “I knew where I was, and I tried to do everything…
By: E.Goldman/Boxing & Wrestling Editor Kerry McCoy, one of the most successful heavyweight wrestlers in American history, was named Thursday as head wrestling coach at Stanford, a Div. I college located in Palo Alto, Calif. For the past five seasons…
By Dick Kelly A week from today, many of the best amateur wrestlers in the U.S. will be in Ames for the World Team Trials. Ironic as it seems, the most accomplished wrestler in Iowa State history won’t be participating…
By Ana Patejdl ilroy – Ten months ago, Gilroy Hawks wrestler Fabian Loredo was “that” kid at school – heavyset and the target of his fair share of teasing. An eighth grader at South Valley Middle School, Loredo tipped the…
Special to The Express-Times STANFORD, Calif. — A wrestling career at Penn State followed by an assistant coaching stint at Lehigh University and two appearances on the U.S. Olympic team turned out to be parts of Kerry McCoy’s ticket to…
The NFL “and wrestling “aspirations of Greg Jones, a three-time national champion from West Virginia University, are currently on hold. A West Virginia spokesman confirmed Monday that Jones underwent successful sports hernia surgery Thursday, and will be shut down for…
John Fuller Daniel Cormier (Lafayette, La./Stillwater, Okla.) of the Gator Wrestling Club has been one of the most dominant forces on the freestyle scene over the last three years. Nicknamed “Baby Melvin” by many throughout the wrestling world, he has…