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11/06/2024

Hassan Yazdani Looks To Win 2nd Olympic Gold Medal At Paris Olympics

Hassan Yazdani has been one of the best and most exciting wrestlers in the world since he won his first medal at the 2015 world championships all the way down at 70kgs. Yazdani holds a stunning 124…

10/06/2024

Mason Parris Named USA Wrestling Athlete Of The Week

Mason Parris has been named as USA Wrestling’s athlete of the week after securing bronze at the UWW ranking series in Budapest this past week. Parris put together a phenomenal run in a field …

10/06/2024

Terrell Barraclough Transfers To Utah Valley

Terrell Barraclough has announced that he will be using his final year of eligibility at Utah Valley. Barraclough put together a 12-2 record this past season competing for the Penn State Nittany Li…

10/06/2024

Austin O'Connor Wins Pro MMA Debut

2x National Champion Austin O’Connor put on a dominant performance in his Pro MMA debut at Fury FC 91 winning by TKO in the third round over his opponent Camden Fontenot. O’Connor won n…

10/06/2024

Team USA Wins 4 Medals At Budapest Ranking Series

The UWW ranking series in Budapest has come to a conclusion and Team USA will leave with 4 medals. 3 were won in men’s freestyle and 1 in women’s wrestling. Men’s Freestyle: 61kg:…

09/06/2024

Abdulrashid Sadulaev Looks To Win 3rd Olympic Gold At Paris Olympics

Abdulrashid Sadulaev has been one of the best wrestlers in the world for a decade now winning his first world title back at Tashkent in 2014. Sadulaev currently has 5 world titles and 2 Olympic gol…

09/06/2024

Jason Nolf To Make Pro Grappling Debut June 9th

Jason Nolf will be making his pro grappling debut tonight June 9th at Paradigm Combat Sports Grappling Superfight. He will be taking on B Team’s Andrew Simmons. Nolf was a 3x national champio…

09/06/2024

Mens Freestyle Olympics Seeds/Preview

57kg: 1- Stevan Micic (Serbia) 2- Rei Higuchi (Japan) 3- Arsen Harutyunyan (Armenia) 4- Zelimkhan Abakarov (Albania) 5- Aman Sehrawat (India) 6- Zavur Uguev (Russia) 7- Wanhao Zou (China) 8- Gulomj…

07/06/2024

Mason Parris Wins Gold At Budapest Ranking Series

Mason Parris has done it and wins 125kg gold at the Budapest ranking series going 3-0 in the tournament. In the first round he faced Georgian Givi Matcharashvili who is Georgia’s Olympic repr…

04/06/2024

125kg Budapest Ranking Series Preview

125kgs at the Budapest ranking series looks like it will be one of the more interesting weight classes in men’s freestyle. Entries: Giorgi MESHVILDISHVILI (AZE)Dzianis KHRAMIANKOU (AIN)Georgi…

02/06/2024

U20 Men's Freestyle World Team Set

Men’s freestyle wrestling at the U20 world team trials has concluded and the Team USA squad is set. The U20 world championships will be taking place from September 2nd-8th in Pontevedra, Spai…

01/06/2024

U20 Mens Freestyle World Team Trials Finals Set

The finals matches for the U20 men’s freestyle world team trials are set and will be going down tomorrow morning at 9:30 est. 57kg- Jax Forrest vs Luke Lilledahl Lilledahl has been sitting in…

31/05/2024

Gable Steveson Signs With The Buffalo Bills

Massive news coming out as wrestling Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson is signing with the Buffalo Bills as a defensive tackle. Steveson won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic games back in 2021 …

30/05/2024

CWA Announces Lineup For June Showcase

The CWA (Championships Wrestling Association) has announced the lineup for their first ever wrestling event set to go down on June 15th. Matchups: Micky Phillippi vs Nahshon Garrett Evan Henderson …

30/05/2024

Greco-Roman Wrestling At The 2020 Olympics

The biggest storyline by far at the 2020 Olympics was Cuban legend Mijain Lopez-Nunez going for his 4th Olympic gold medal. Some other big matches went down as well such as Musa Evloev vs Artur Ale…

30/05/2024

Men's Freestyle Wrestling At The 2020 Olympics

Men’s freestyle action at the Tokyo Olympics was especially eventful as Takuto Otoguro won gold in his home country, Gable Steveson pulled off a miracle comeback, and we finally got to see th…

29/05/2024

Team USA Budapest Ranking Series Preview

The Budapest ranking series tournament will begin on June 6th and continue to the 9th. This is the last tournament were competitors can earn seeding points for the Olympic Games in Paris. Team USA …

29/05/2024

Mijain Lopez-Nunez Looks To Win 5th Olympic Gold Medal At Paris Olympics

The legend Mijain Lopez-Nunez will be 41 years old when he steps on the mat for the final time at the Paris Olympics. Lopez has done it all in the sport of wrestling winning Olympic gold in Beijing…

29/05/2024

Early 125kg Olympics Preview

The 125kg weight class at the Olympic games will be fairly interesting but there is also a good chance that we see almost an exact repeat of the podium from the world championships in Belgrade last…

28/05/2024

2024-25 Oklahoma State Wrestling Team Preview

Coming into the 2024-25 wrestling season Oklahoma will be the team to watch. With an almost fully revamped coaching staff consisting of David Taylor, Thomas Gilman, Jimmy Kennedy, Bryan Pearsall an…

28/05/2024

Gerrit Nijenhuis To Use Final Year Of Eligibility At Cal State Bakersfield

Former Oklahoma and Purdue wrestler Gerritt Nijenhuis has announced via Twitter that he will be using his final year of collegiate eligibility at Cal State Bakersfield under head coach Luke Smith a…

27/05/2024

Early 97kg Olympics Preview

The 97kg field at the Olympic Games is going to be one of the most interesting weight classes to watch. We don’t even know if Abdulrashid Sadulaev will be allowed to compete yet at this point. Shou…

27/05/2024

Early 86kg Olympics Preview

The 86kg weight class has been dominated by two men for the last several years, David Taylor and Hassan Yazdani. Taylor failed to make the Olympic team for the United States and has since retired a…

26/05/2024

Faith Christian Academy Squad Joins The Heavyweight Nation Podcast

We were joined by Ben Clymer, Adam Waters, Gauge Botero, and Mark Effendian of Faith Christian on this episode of the Heavyweight Nation podcast. You can watch below

25/05/2024

Yui Susaki Looks To Win 2nd Olympic Gold at Paris Olympics

Japan’s Yui Susaki has been without a doubt the best women’s wrestler in the world for years now and she is only 24 years old. At the Tokyo Olympics it was pure domination from Susaki a…

24/05/2024

Cayden Henschel And Crosby Schlosser Join The Heavyweight Nation Podcast

Click below to watch episode 175 of the Heavyweight Nation podcast with Cayden Henschel and Crosby Schlosser.

24/05/2024

Zavur Uguev Looks To Win 2nd Olympic Gold Medal In Paris

Russia’s Zavur Uguev has been one of the best 57kg wrestlers on the planet since he won his first world title in 2018. Last year was not the greatest for him as he had one of his worst perfor…

23/05/2024

Cam Amine Commits To Oklahoma State

Big news as 3x All American Cam Amine has just announced that he will be headed to Oklahoma State for his final year to compete under head coach David Taylor. Amine was a staple at the 165 pound we…

22/05/2024

74kg Early Olympics Preview

The 74kg weight class at the Olympic Games will be one of the best to watch with multiple former world champions and medalists looking to take out the reigning champion Zaurbek Sidakov. The Field: …

22/05/2024

Kyle Parco Commits To Iowa

Big news coming out as 4x All American Kyle Parco has announced that he will be a Hawkeye and use his final year of eligibility at the University of Iowa. Parco has been one of the most consistent …

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