Jared Frayer’s last-gasp attempt to wrestle a spot on the U.S. freestyle team away from Brent Metcalf is apparently dead.
The former Iowa strength and conditioning coach said Tuesday that he won’t take his challenge to a higher level after losing an appeal with USA Wrestling.
“It’s pretty much over and done with,” Frayer said. “It was more of something I had to do. It wasn’t some-thing I really expected to win, I guess, but it was just to set the precedent that it’s (expletive) the way matches are being decided – mine or anybody’s. It’s just ridiculous the way things are being handled by Fila or whoever it may be.”
Mike Johnson of Manassas, Virginia has gone way beyond the call of duty. He's put together an incredibly detailed — and fascinating — 18-page analysis of some of the numbers and statistics from the 2010 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships which has been posted at the WrestlingReport.com website.
These stats are kept meticulously even in high [ Read More ]
Last night unranked Utah Valley University took on 8th in the nation Boise St. And won. UVU pulled ahead in the beginning and never looked back. It was a tough match with the end being the roughest I’ve seen. Casen Eldredge, who normally wrestles at 184 pounds, wrestled up two weight classes Boise State’s heavyweight [ Read More ]
So in case you haven’t noticed: the FILA Worlds are under way. And the U.S. already has some metal. Jake Herbert pulled off a Silver Medal after coming up short against Zaurbek Sokhiev of Uzbekistan on Tuesday in the 84 kg/185 lbs. It was close, but not close enough. He lost the match 1-0, 1-0.
“It [ Read More ]
I was cruising through TheWrestlingTalk forums and thought I would take a look at the high school wrestling rankings. They’ve got the top twelve of the nation in each weight class listed. Being a typical Californian, I have a little pride, so decided to search for my home-state wrestlers that were ranked.
While there weren’t any [ Read More ]
University of Minnesota’s “Brockfast of Champions”
poster featured Brock Lesnar with “tale of the tape”
call-outs pointing out the measurements of various
body parts.
Think the UFC rivalry between Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir is intense?
A decade ago, the current UFC heavyweight champ had a powerful, ongoing rivalry as the University of Minnesota heavyweight vs Wes Hand of the [ Read More ]
If you weren’t able to watch the fights this past weekend, you missed out. Here is the knockout round of the Henderson vs. Bisbing fight. First off, notice it’s in the second round at about 3:10 into it (each round lasts five minutes).
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When I saw this, I think it’s one of the sickest [ Read More ]
Most Batman actions figures have an eight pack, rippling arms and a cape.
Jake Herbert, Northwestern’s senior 184-pound wrestler, doesn’t have a cape, but he does have two national championships, a Hodge Trophy (given to the most outstanding wrestler in the NCAA) and the eight pack.
On March 21, Herbert capped off his Northwestern wrestling career with [ Read More ]
Check out his second professional MMA fight. Dude taps out in the first round. Thoughts?
Want the brackets? Easy. Here are the brackets for the 2009 NCAA DIV I Wrestling Championships. Have fun. If you want to save it to your computer, right click on the link and select Save Link As. Done and did.