By Tyler Huey Nisqually Valley News Kurt Angle won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Olympics and now, 15 years later, the 42-year-old is training to make a comeback in hopes of qualifying for next summer’s 2012…
The Honourable Bal Gosal, Minister of State (Sport), , announced the Government of Canada’s contribution to the Canadian Amateur Wrestling Association in support of the 2011 Canada Cup of International Wrestling. The Canada Cup of International Wrestling, hosted by the Canadian…
Eric DeVos can only guess how many miles he’s put on his Jeep Cherokee in recent years just crisscrossing Iowa to tangle with the other top wrestlers his age. The Waverly-Shell Rock state champion has made countless trips to Cedar…
Terrell Lester Sports Editor Scouting around … They’re coming down the stretch. The finish line is within sight. Saturday is the 32nd and final day of the thoroughbred spring meet at Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs. It’s been a successful…
Is there an argument to be made that weight cutting harms the sport more than it helps? Making weight. It’s a reality that most professional mixed martial artists face when it comes to fight time. You hear them talk about…
By Travis Smith Kurt Angle seems to have done it all in professional wrestling. He has been world champion 14 times, a former WWE King Of The Ring, a triple crown winner in WWE and TNA, and was named…
WrestlingGear.Com, an online retailer of wrestling apparel and equipment, has donated 100 pairs of kneepads to the Beat the Streets, a program that aims help at-risk kids in urban areas through the discipline and structure competitive wrestling provides. WrestlingGear.Com announced…
CORALVILLE “Dan Gable thought it was just an elaborate retirement party. He was unaware that by the end of the festivities he would learn that he would be immortalized in front of the very arena that he turned into a…
James Barron | The New Mexican When Stephen Serr walked to the middle of the wrestling mat to face his opponent, he did so with caution. Looking up at Serr, a sophomore wrestler for Kearney (Neb.) High School, was Lucas…
By Sergio Non, USA TODAY If you had to pick a single instance that marks the rise of the latest wave in mixed martial arts, it arrived on the point of light heavyweight Jon “Bones “Jones’ knee. Five seconds into…
