“The loser is usually the one who is ready to lose. Fight, overcome difficulties, control your emotions – and you will win.” Aleksandr Karelin is the…
Each spring, wrestlers from 76 Division I schools compete for NCAA individual and team wrestling titles. First held in 1928, March Matness is college wrestling’s marquee event. …
For over a decade, Andre the Giant was the highest-paid professional wrestler on earth. A pro wrestler and actor, Le Geant Francais [The French Giant], was a…
Since 1908, the United States has won a dozen medals in Greco-Roman Olympic wrestling. Rulon Gardner earned two of them. The 1980 Winter Games gave…
Today we discuss the most impressive winning streak in the history of high school athletics. Brandon High School is a national Blue Ribbon School located…
“Macho Man” Randy Savage was one of the greatest pro wrestlers in history. Randall Mario Poffo was born in Columbus, Ohio, on this date in…
In 1982, Jeffery Carl Blatnick was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. They removed his spleen and his appendix, and he underwent radiation therapy. Two years later, he…
The Banach Brothers are one of the toughest and most accomplished sports families in wrestling history. Edward Joseph Banach was born in Newton, New Jersey,…
Wrestlers are notoriously tough, courageous and iron-willed. Anthony Marc Robles is all of these. Born in La Mirada, California, on July 20, 1988, he entered…
Bruce Robert Baumgartner has won more Olympic medals than any freestyle wrestler in American history. Born in Haledon, New Jersey on this date in 1960,…