U.S. men’s freestyle wrestlers ranked in the UWW June rankings #17 61kg Coleman Scott, Chapel Hill, N.C. (Sunkist Kids) #5 70kg James Green, Lincoln, Neb. (Titan Mercury WC/Nebraska RTC) #17 70kg Aaron Pico, Whittier, Calif. (Titan Mercury WC) #1 74kg Jordan Burroughs, Lincoln, Neb. (Sunkist Kids/Nebraska RTC) #3 97kg Kyle Snyder, Woodbine, Md. (Titan Mercury […]
Can you imagine ESPN going down the day of the Super Bowl? Fox Sports going down during a UFC fight? Shockingly, the United World Wrestling website is down the first day of their World Championships. Even startup Flo wrestling has a better record. Geez, no wonder the sport is teettering on the edge of Olympic […]
By United World Wrestling Press July 9, 2015 – 13:39 CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (July 8) – United World Wrestling has announced a handful of scoring modifications for freestyle and women’s wrestling. The reforms follow the recent success of similar changes in Greco-Roman wrestling. The revisions state that all turns are now two points regardless of where […]
Ranked Americans 57kg: 13th Tony Ramos 65kg: 5th Brent Metcalf, 19th Jordan Oliver 70kg: 11th Nick Marable, seems a little low after a nice World Cup, 15th Dustin Schlatter 74kg: 2nd Jordan Burroughs. You might think that getting a tech over #3 Azcuy at Salsa in the Square might get David Taylor some respect. You’d […]
The list of qualification tournaments, locations and dates are as follows: 2015 September 7-12: World Championships (Las Vegas, USA) 2016 March 4-6: Pan-American Olympic Qualification (Dallas, USA) March 18-20: Asian Olympic Qualification (Astana, KAZ) April 1-3: Africa/Oceania Olympic Qualification (Alger, ALG) April 15-17: European Olympic Qualification (Zrenjanin, SRB) April 22-24: First “Last-Chance” Qualification Tournament (Ulaanbaatar, […]
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By Jason Bryant April 13, 2015 – 04:34 LOS ANGELES (April 12) – Anywhere Iran wrestles, the horns, the chants and the singing follows. Whether it be at World Championships in Turkey or World Cups in Los Angeles, Iran is regarded as having some of the most engaged wrestling fans in the world. On Sunday […]