Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
“I always loved getting hit, I suppose. I dunno what it is. It makes you feel alive. Otherwise you’re cruising through life without a bit of punishment.” Finn Simpson, 22, is one of Sydney’s growing band of amateur cage fighters,…
To say former Hazel Park High wrestler Eric Queener is in it for the danger might be a little extreme. But the Warren Fitzgerald wrestling coach and United States Army sergeant discovered upon his return from active duty in Iraq…
By Brian Lopez-Benchimol Of all the bases of martial arts to build upon a budding, MMA, career, wrestling has been one of the truer and more dominant. Over the years, we have seen a steady increase in the amount of accomplished wrestlers…
By Luke Thomas Jordan Burroughs, one of America’s premier talents in amateur wrestling, tells MMA Nation he is ‘definitely’ interested in a career in mixed martial arts. The catch? We’ll all have to wait until he’s done wrestling. If you…
by Dave Thomas YAKIMA, Finding your path in life and love is rarely well marked, making it all the more rewarding when it’s discovered. It’s even less likely “, but infinitely more satisfying “, should those two paths converge. As teenagers, respectively,…
By Jillian Bullock The Department of Justice, federal agencies, faith-based and other grassroots and community organizations are always looking to instill crime prevention programs to address at-risk youth and gang members. While many of these programs have failed, many people…
By Danny Udero There is a broad question that has enveloped the wrestling world. What do wrestlers do when their careers are over? Mixed martial arts has seen to be the cure for the grappler that can t get enough…
by Kyle Nagel By his junior year of high school in Wenatchee, Wash., Brian Van Hoven noticed Marines recruiters in the stands at his wrestling matches mixed in with the college scouts and coaches. Van Hoven certainly was skilled enough…
A video of two eight-year-old boys grappling at a mixed martial arts event in England has the mainstream media, medical associations and the general population up in arms. “Two boys wearing no head gear or padding, wrestling and kicking each…
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 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…
With heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar as a role model, college wrestlers are finding that mixed martial arts gives them a chance to compete and make money after school. By MYRON P. MEDCALF, Star Tribune When Division I football coaches called,…