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Jordan Burroughs Wins First World Freestyle Wrestling Championship in Istanbul
Minutes ago the 2011 NCAA Division I Wrestling Champion for Nebraska Jordan Burroughs became World Champion in Freestyle Wrestling in Instanbul, Turkey. Competing at 74 kg / 163 lbs, the one day event saw Burroughs wrestle four times to get to the finals, with a win over former champion Denis...
UFC Quick Quote: Georges St. Pierre is light years away from becoming an Olympic wrestler
"It is a bummer because the sport is losing good guys like Daniel Cormier, Mo Lawal, Ben Askren, they almost lost me for a bit. It's happening because guys are seeing MMA, I hate to say it, but it's an easier sport than wrestling. Wrestling is a sport, just like boxing, it's been around for...
Can Olympic Gold Medalist Henry Cejudo Jumpstart MMA's Flyweight Class?
SBNation's Luke Thomas spoke to Henry Cejudo, the youngest American wrestler to ever win gold at the Olympics about his potential MMA career, the impact of MMA on wrestling and Cejudo's belief that MMA is easier than wrestling. Like UFC champ Georges St. Pierre, Cejudo never wrestled in college....
U.S. Olympic Wrestling Program Bids to Compete With MMA
We've been arguing that the influx of Olympic caliber wrestlers into MMA was actually a boon for amateur wrestling for a while now and as counter-intuitive as it may seem, this NY Times article confirms it: USA Wrestling announced this week the creation of a medal fund that would pay wrestlers...
Henry Cejudo vs. Norifumi Yamamoto?
Yamamoto's injury makes it unlikely, but the potential bout is right out of Japanese matchmaking: Henry Cejudo, the only American to capture a gold medal in wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, recently negotiated with Japanese promoters for a match on that country’s...
Andrei Arlovski, Henry Cejudo to Make Boxing Debuts?
That's one contention being tossed around. Notable quote: Gold-medal winning U.S. Olympic wrestler Henry Cejudo is spending time working out in a Phoenix boxing gym, and may ultimately transform into fighting atop a roped-off canvas, my friend Norm Frauenheim (formerly of the Arizona Republic)...
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