There has been a lot of hullabaloo recently about UWW changing the rules around wrestlers transferring federations. Like we’re seeing with NCAA wrestling right now, many in the international wrestling community are unhappy with the permissiveness of the transfer system and have sought to rein things in. Unlike the NCAA, UWW has the power and …
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Match Preview: Jarrett Degen vs Pat Lugo
My breakdown for the 149 lb bout at the Iowa-Iowa St dual meet on Sunday has been published on MMASucka. MMASucka is part of the Last Word on Sports network and mainly covers mixed martial arts, but they’ve been moving into other combat sports, including wrestling. You can read the article here.
New Series: Out for Revenge
One thing that makes wrestling different from boxing and MMA is the frequency of rematches. Because fighters compete less often than wrestlers, and because those sports’ economics are based on selling bouts to fans as major events, only very compelling or controversial matchups are repeated. In wrestling, rematches happen whenever two former opponents go to …
Baffling but Beautiful
Last week, Bloody Elbow’s Connor Ruebusch wrote a great piece comparing Vasyl Lomachenko to a jazz musician, where what looks like wild, manic improvisation is actually very well grounded in basic principles. Inspired by that, I’m going to make another musical comparison. A few years ago, struggling to focus on schoolwork, I fell down a …
The Wrestling Dummy 