Wrestling Links (6-3-11)

Posted on | June 3, 2011 | No Comments

Wrestling fan take: Favorite Macho Man Randy Savage feuds
Yahoo! Sports
Contributor Network 12 hours, 10 minutes ago The death of Macho Man Randy Savage hit fellow fans and I differently than other professional wrestling deaths. Unless something comes up in the yet-to-be-released autopsy report, Savage didn’t do anything …
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TNA Impact! Wrestling (6/2) Review and Opinions
Bleacher Report
Wrestling opens up with Eric Bischoff receiving a letter from “The Network.” Right after, we get right into a backstage fight with Velvet Sky and ODB. ODB is beating down Velvet and towards the ring. Security attempts to break it up but ODB kicks them…
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Professional wrestling at the Crown Coliseum with WWE Raw
Fayetteville Observer
Weekender caught up with R-Truth, aka Ronnie Aaron Killings, who will wrestle Cena for the WWE World Championship. R-Truth gave his version of the “truth,” talked about his plans to win the title away from Cena and his music career. …
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Interview: Winter on Working for TNA Wrestling
TNAStars.com
I definitely think Impact Wrestling is the place where I am supposed to be. I had my eye on this company for a while, even before I got here. I was so happy to get the opportunity to work here. For me, it’s about coming to work, enjoying working again, …
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Our View: Case against Rapids wrestlers raises questions
Wausau Daily Herald
Wrestling in Wisconsin Rapids is like football in Edgar or soccer in Brazil or rugby in Australia. It’s what they do and who they are, almost a religion unto itself. So it’s perhaps not surprising that everyone seems to be treating with kid gloves the …
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Wrestling coaches receive honors
The Salinas Californian
Three Salinas-area wrestling icons were recently honored at the 12th California Wrestling Hall of Fame Induction Banquet May 14 in San Jose. Matt Alvarado and Terry Espinosa, co-founders of the Salinas Valley Wrestling Club, and former North Salinas …
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Hottest Olympic Event: Wrestling for TV Rights
Wall Street Journal
By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO and MATTHEW FUTTERMAN The escalating fight over TV sports rights reaches its biggest battlefield next week, as NBCUniversal pushes to extend its track record of Olympic broadcasting wins, and ESPN and Fox aim to spoil it. …
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Wrestling event to assist poor kids
Tbo.com
Promoter Al Schaefer of Victory Wrestling Alliance said proceeds will go to the aquatic center’s Open Arms Scholarship Fund, which helps poor children in the area get memberships to the complex. There is no funding for the program. …
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Tom Goff column: Upward shift in wrestling weights won’t pay off for …
Appleton Post Crescent
Starting with the next school year, there still will be 14 weight classes for prep wrestlers in Wisconsin, but except for four holdovers, not the ones that wrestlers, coaches and fans have been used to for the past 23 years. In its April 4-6 meeting in …
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Penn State Added to Wrestling’s Southern Scuffle
The Chattanoogan
by BB Branton For the first time in more than 60 years, the reigning NCAA DI national wrestlingchampion is coming to Chattanooga. Penn State, which won the 2011 national title in March, will participate in the 2012 Southern Scuffle wrestling tounament …
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