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Amateur wrestling. Amateur wrestling is a variant of wrestling practiced at Olympic, collegiate, scholastic, and other levels. There are two international wrestling styles performed at the Olympic Games, freestyle and Greco-Roman, both of which are governed by the United World Wrestling (UWW). At the middle school and high school levels ...
Osvald Käpp – 1928 Olympic gold medalist Greco-Roman wrestling. August Englas – 1953 World Champion Greco-Roman wrestling, 1954 World Champion Freestyle wrestling. Albert Kusnets – 1928 Olympic bronze medalist Greco-Roman wrestling. Roman Steinberg – 1924 Olympic bronze medalist Greco-Roman wrestling.
Professional wrestling, in the sense of traveling performers paid for mass entertainment in staged matches, began in the post-Civil War period in the late 1860s and 1870s. [1] During this time, wrestlers were often athletes with amateur wrestling experience who competed at traveling carnivals with carnies working
Danny Hodge. Daniel Allen Hodge (May 13, 1932 – December 24, 2020) was an American amateur and professional wrestler, who also had a brief professional boxing career. He is in both the U.S. amateur wrestling Hall of Fame, for his three NCAA titles and Olympic silver medal, and the pro wrestling Hall of Fame, as a seven-time NWA World Junior ...
2006–present. Texas All-Star Wrestling. Humble. Bob Murphy. 1994–present. The first successful promotion since the close of World Class Championship Wrestling in 1990 and the Global Wrestling Federation in 1994, it is currently the oldest independent promotion in Texas[3][4] Texas Wrestling Alliance. San Antonio.
e. The history of professional wrestling, as a performing art, started in the late 19th century, with predecessors in funfair and variety strongman and wrestling performances (which often involved match fixing) in the 1830s. [1] Professional wrestling is a popular form of entertainment in Australia, North America, Latin America, Europe, and Japan.
68 kg. 2019 Krasnoyarsk. 72 kg. Tamyra Mariama Mensah-Stock (born October 11, 1992, née Mensah) is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she wrestles on the NXT brand under the name Tyra Mae Steele. Mensah-Stock previously competed in women's freestyle wrestling, winning the gold medal at ...
Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling) is a form of athletic theater [2] that combines mock combat with drama, under the premise—known colloquially as kayfabe —that the performers are competitive wrestlers. Although it entails elements of amateur wrestling and martial arts, including genuine ...