Mata’afa gave up wrestling before his senior year of high school to focus on his first love — football. And despite coming off the bench in every WSU game this year, the redshirt freshman was ...

Cottonwood's basketball background should come as no surprise given that he's 6 feet, 11 inches tall, but he was a much better basketball player than his in-ring persona would lead one to believe.

The number of past and present pro football players who have a high school or college wrestling background is sizable. It includes Hall of Famers Ronnie Lott, Bruce Smith and Larry Csonka, former ...

Any NFL scout will testify that prospects with wrestling backgrounds are built differently. That’s the case for a pair of defensive tackles, the Cowboys’ Osa Odighizuwa and potential Jaguars ...

Drafting a player with a wrestling background worked last year when fifth-round defensive tackle Karl Klug led the team with seven sacks as a rookie. Webster said he’ll keep looking for wrestling ...

Wrestling backgrounds help roughstock riders excel. JEREMIAH JOHNKE and MATT ATENCIO WyoSports; Jul 27, 2023 Jul 27, 2023 Updated Aug 30, 2024; Comments; Facebook; Twitter; WhatsApp; SMS; ...

MMA fighters come from many different athletic backgrounds. Amateur wrestling, Boxing, Judo, Kickboxing, Grappling, etc. are just some of the many different skill sets brought into initial MMA ...