Wrestling Links (7-31-11)

Posted on | July 31, 2011 | No Comments

Woodley uses wrestling to neutralize Daley in win at Strikeforce
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
That was the last time Daley faced an elite former college wrestler. Tonight it was former Missouri star Tyron Woodley and the result was pretty similar. Woodley took Daley down early in both the second and third rounds to roll to a unanimous decision …
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Impact Wrestling: A tale of two shows
Poughkeepsie Journal (blog)
I watched this week’s episode of Impact Wrestling in two sessions due to scheduling and ended up feeling like I had just watched two different shows. The first 70 or so minutes of the show, I thought, were pretty darn good. • The opening segment had …
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Medals galore for talented wrestlers
Bakewell Today
Middleton & Wirksworth Freestyle Wrestling Club cashed in again at the Southern Region Open Tournament in Bristol, with a total haul of 13 medals being taken by the club. After many disruptions, it took FILA-qualified M&W coach Richard Phillips to take…
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Humor, wrestling part of the job for retiring financial aid director
Journal and Courier
It is like you are always trying to wrestle this thing to the ground. Q: How does this past year of aid changes compare to others? A: The spring was the most active spring I have ever witnessed in the changing of state grant programs for the future. …
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Wrestling Over the Debt Ceiling
Consortium News
It’s more like professional wrestling of the kind they perform at the Capital Arena not far from Capitol Hill. The audience is hyped. The wrestlers pretend to hate each other, and arouse the crowd with acts of physical aggression. …
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CM Punk being promoted by TNA, Receives huge endorsement from wrestling legend
Examiner.com
The CM Punk “craze” continues throughout the wrestling industry as WWE’s distant competitor TNA Impact Wrestling is promoting appearances by CM Punk. According to a Friday report by WrestlingInc.com, TNA’s is advertising CM Punk matches for their …
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Three new trophy cases house PHS?wrestling accomplishments
Parkersburg News
Three new trophy cases were recently built and placed inside Memorial Fieldhouse under the wall of fame for ex-Big Red wrestlers. Thanks to donated wood from Paul Brooks along with the help of former PHS mat coach Joe Handlan, Jr., Curtis Harris and …
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Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler set to wrestle Tuesday
Carmi Times
Anyone who grew up in the 1970s and could receive WTVW Channel 7 from Evansville, Ind., remembers watching these guys and others take to the wrestling ring on weekend mornings, with the announcing team of Lance Russell and Dave Brown calling the action …
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An Olympic appetite for more gold — at age 40
Omaha World-Herald
Olympic gold in Greco-Roman wrestling in 2000, Olympic bronze in 2004. At least twice he has been near death, once in a plane crash in Lake Powell, Utah, and once almost frozen in a mountain mishap. But his most recent flirtation with death, …
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Preview Thursday’s IMPACT WRESTLING On SpikeTV at 9/8c‏ – YouTube
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Balloon Juice » Drunken wrestling is probably fine, even …
By Kay
The men said they weren’t fighting; just having a “friendly wrestling match in their hotel room,” a Beavercreek police report said. Martin’s parents were called to pick up the men and their belongings, according to the police report. …
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