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,…
By: Brian Lopez-Benchimol Shinya Aoki is probably one of the most reserved fighters in the sport. Although his in-ring antics against Mizuto Hirota at “Dynamite!! 2009″³ would inidicate otherwise, the grappling ace usually keeps to himself and refrains from doing…
Mixed martial arts has always had a difficult time deciding exactly how much it is sport and how much it is fighting. And while virtually every aspect of the sport needs fine tuning in terms of judging criteria and point…
Ryan Bader, a light heavyweight prospect climbing the ranks of a stacked division only four fights into his UFC career, has been on a meteoric rise since his time in “The Ultimate Fighter” house. His rise can quite simply be…
With Matt Hughes employing an amateur wrestling headlock to choke his way to victory over Ricardo Almeida at UFC 117, I figured the time was right to feature some more nasty amateur action “in this case, some slams. Now some…
