Wrestling Links (7-11-11)

Posted on | July 11, 2011 | No Comments

How Do You Dress a Turkish Wrestler? In Olive Oil and Leather Britches
Wall Street Journal
It’s the annual Kirkpinar oil-wrestling tournament, which has been staged here for 650 years. To the uninitiated, it seems little more than an open field of oily mayhem. Not so to the appreciative crowd, which roars with excitement at sudden throws or …
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Destination X proves that wrestling matters
CANOE
Wrestling In the early days of TNA, matches featuring the X-Division stars would invariably be the highlight of any show. In recent years, however, the X-Division has seemed to shift its focus towards storylines featuring more veteran stars, …
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TNA Wrestling: How Destination X Can Be the Best PPV This Year
Bleacher Report
The writers at Impact Wrestling should feel pretty good about the situation they are in, as they enter Destination X in about two hours. For the past month, we have seen some of the best wrestling, promotion and creativity the network and brand have …
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Bleacher Report

WWE/TNA: My Top Wrestling Divas of All Time
Bleacher Report
The state of women’s wrestling in the two main organizations are viewed in two different realms. While TNA works at including its women as real wrestlers who are beautiful, the WWE works at making beauty the staple and if they can wrestle, …
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Bleacher Report

Legendary wrestler: Getting in shape key
Bloomington Pantagraph
Tristen Maierhofer, 11, of Pontiac, volunteers as Dan Hodge, 79, demonstrates a move while speaking to a group of young wrestlers Friday, July 8, 2011, at the Midwest Nationals WrestlingTournament at the Shirk Center in Bloomington. …
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T.R. Foley: College wrestlers should spread their wings, celebrate victories
Examiner.com
TR Foley — former All-American wrestler and coach, now a freelance writer — thinks it’s time for US college wrestlers to take a cue from their Mongolian mat brothers and celebrate their victories with more showmanship, according to his article …
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Your Sports: Wrestling
Billings Gazette
Tyrel Todd, a three-time NCAA All-American at Michigan, will be the featured clinician at the Heights Wrestling Camp July Monday through Wednesday at Billings Skyview’s lower gym. Todd, an assistant coach at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Calif., …
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Josh Barnett vs Bobby Lashley pro wrestling match photos from IGF in Japan
MMAmania.com
by Geno Mrosko on Jul 10, 2011 10:12 PM EDT in Strikeforce News Strikeforce heavyweight tournament participant Josh Barnett does his pro wrestling thing over in Japan for Inoki Genome Federation (IGF) last night (July 9) in a match against former …
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The Psycho Circus continues their dominance at NWA Houston event in Cypress
Examiner.com
NWA Houston took center stage once again this past Friday night, as they took over the Cypress VFW location for another night of live professional wrestling. Superstars gathered for the third annual “Independence Explosion” event. …
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Monday Morning Backlash: Random Thoughts on TNA Destination X, Money in the …
Inside Pulse
Look, I like good wrestling as much or more than the next guy, but if you want the kind of money a PPV will cost, I’m going to need emotional investment, not another randomly thrown together card. And look, Joe jobbed again. In the opener. …
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Toe Wrestling Is Like Arm Wrestling, But With Toes | MetaFilter
Toe Wrestling Is Like Arm Wrestling, But With Toes … *Waits for Sylvester Stallone to make truck-driving toe-wrestling father son action-family drama …
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