Wrestling

MMA is fast becoming the biggest combat sport in the world and yet it still isn't an Olympic sport which is just bizarre to think about when there are sports like skateboarding and surfing that have just been added to the 220 Olympic games in Tokyo. Does the Olympic committee think that these are bigger and more popular sports than MMA? Or are they just scared of the criticism and backlash that they might receive? One of the main points that people who are against MMA as an Olympic sport say is…

For any wrestler, it is a long and excruciating process, but well worth the pain to reach his goal: to be a State Champion. Before the wrestling season, a wrestler needs to be mentally, and physically prepared. This journey is anything, but easy and sometimes to have the most success, wrestlers must cut weight. The wrestler has to create goals through exercise, dieting, weight checks, while remaining mentally motivated. Sticking with these goals will determine how the individual season ends.…

This week on WWE Raw in Brooklyn 'New York' Bubba Ray and D-Von returned and were welcomed with a huge crowd pop. We witnessed the shocking return of "The Dudley Boyz" who haven't been seen as a team back in WWE in over 10 years. The crowd went crazy, The New Day was in for A Bad Day, crowd chants of "Get The Tables" " ECW" and "3D" echoed around the arena. The Dudley's quickly destroyed The New Day one by one to the crowds delight. Fortunately, the Dudley Boyz return was not leaked online and…

This year is expected to be a huge year for the WBU Novice World Champion Rock Blackwell. Blackwell was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His heritage is of African Hebrew and Yahudah Isreal descent. Blackwell began boxing at just seven years old and holds an amateur record of 156-28. It hasn't been a cake walk for Blackwell. He lost his first professional fight in 2009, due to a broken right hand and life threatening levels of dehydration. Not to mention, he was forced to jump up a class to super…

There are three types of movements that I know only too well. The first is the sweep: the initial take down of the opponent’s body by knocking his legs out from under him until he falls to the ground. Each bone pulsates in its own unique way as it braces for the impact while being crushed to the floor. The second movement is watching the Sensei urging the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitor to regain his stance. All of this eventually leads to the “tapping out” when you tap the floor to indicate…

of my summers to wrestling camps. Wrestling is a big deal for me and my family. It all started with my god-father wrestling in High School and his brothers. In my culture and religion, your first god parents which are your baptism godparents, are like your second parents. I grew up looking up to my godfather like my second father. My godfather and his family were the ones who introduced me to the beautiful sport called wrestling. Every summer my godfather signs me up for wrestling camps in…

professional wrestling. Pro wrestling, better known today by its WWE-rebranded moniker “sports entertainment,” is an extremely polarizing piece of popular culture. It is simple to dismiss modern-day wrestling as trivial; however, there was a time when professional wrestling was massively popular and pro wrestlers were the highest grossing athletes in the world. Between 1948 and 1993, the National Wrestling Alliance (“NWA”) acted as the largest, most powerful governing body in professional…

(IOC) voted wrestling out of the Summer Olympics expected to start in 2020. In the Olympic Games in 708 B.C., wrestling made its debut, which makes it one of the founding sports of the Olympics. This information both saddened and infuriated many people involved within wrestling communities. In order to resolve the issue, many big name wrestlers of the past had come together to save the sport. Within a 7 month period the IOC changed their decision to completely get rid of Olympic wrestling.…

When I was 13 years old I loved wrestling. I grew up with it with my family all my life. Determined to join the eighth grade wrestling team in middle school, I made the team with no hesitation in October. I arrived to every single practice and did my work and then left to go home. Concentrated on the first match of my wrestling career all I was wanting was to achieve my first victory. As weeks have passed and in November I was told of my first couple of matches. Training extra just to prepare…

“Go!” the referee said as the wrestling match had commenced . I had my Woodward singlet on, headgear, and a mindset of the ultimately pinning my opponent to win the Wolverine tournament. I remember my father and wrestling teammates to my left, cheering me on to win the match with the faint memory of my father screaming “Let’s go Buddy Boy!”. I couldn’t let them down, I was exhausted and this was my third match deciding if I won the tournament. I wasn’t going to let them down pre thinking my…