Wrestling Links (10-17-11)

Posted on | October 17, 2011 | No Comments

Sumo wrestling is earning youthful fans
Houston Chronicle
AFP PHOTO/JIJI PRESS (Photo credit should read JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images) Photo: JIJI PRESS / 2003 AFP It’s the first thing most people ask Micheal Herrera when they learn that he likes to sumo-wrestle: “How does it feel to wear that weird diaper? …
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TNA Bound for Glory Results: 10 Things We Have Learned
Bleacher Report
As we emerge from Bound For Glory, TNA Wrestling’s biggest pay-per-view of the year, and gaze at the carnage, wrestling fans will undoubtedly wonder just where America’s No. 2 promotion goes from here. Indeed, this lively, newsworthy event gave us …
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Bleacher Report

Hutchison wrestlers second at Valdez
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
by Bob Eley/beley@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — The Hutchison Hawks opened the high schoolwrestling season with a second-place finish at the Throw Down in Snow Town WrestlingTournament Friday and Saturday in Valdez. The Hawks had three champions, …
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Lady arm-wrestlers clash for charity cash
Washington Times
By Meredith Somers Sarah DeLucas, aka “Bocce Balboa,” of the District, revels in her first-round win at the DC Lady Arm Wrestlers event in June. As with roller derby, many of the arm-wrestlers adopt colorful alter egos. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The …
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Washington Times

VIDEO: 10 Questions with Alma College wrestling coach Todd Hibbs
The Morning Sun
By NATE SCHNEIDER After being without a wrestling program since 1984, Alma College made the decision last year to bring back wrestling as a varsity sport. Todd Hibbs, formerly at Olivet College, was hired in February to take the wrestling head coach …
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Kurt Angle Reveals When He Will Retire From Wrestling
Wrestle Heat
Now I’ma lot older and wiser; I look at my training, I look at my game plan, I look at the way I’m going to wrestle. I know I’ll make a lot less mistakes and I know I’ll train more properly. The thing was that I had over-trained in the past. …
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TNA Wrestling Bound For Glory 2011: AJ Styles vs Daniels
Wrestle Heat
Kazarian cuts an interview backstage with JB about his friends facing off against each other tonight. We go to the ring and out first comes Daniels. AJ Styles is out next as we get ready for the bell. Daniels tries to attack first but AJ tackles him …
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TNA Wrestling Bound For Glory 2011 Results: Bully Ray vs Mr Anderson
Wrestle Heat
We go to the ring and out first comes Bully Ray and he’s ready to fight. Out next comes Mr. Anderson to a decent reaction from the crowd. Anderson rushes the ring and they start brawling right away. Anderson with a swinging neckbreaker and a 2 count. …
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Billy Corgan Starts Pro Wrestling Organisation
Tone Deaf
One of rock n roll’s kookiest and most enigmatic alumni, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, has revealed in an interview with Fox News in Chicago that he is taking his decade long passion for wrestling to a whole other level by actually setting …
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Blogs

2011 Pan American Games Greco … – TheMat.com – USA Wrestling
Greco-Roman competition will be October 20 and 21. TheMat.com will post previews in all three Olympic styles this week.
TheMat.com News

Wrestling, inducing a ‘manly’ response, and other weird things on my …
By janesmith
Does anyone else ever push their man to get “manly” with them? I will deliberately do things the make my husband use his “deep”
Talk About Marriage

NewsDaily: SEC wrestling with “conflict minerals” disclosure
By Sarah N. Lynch
Securities regulators are struggling to craft a rule that sheds light on companies that use certain African “conflict minerals” but avoids a compliance nightmare that hurts manufacturers.
NewsDaily: Business Headlines

Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan Launches Own Pro Wrestling …
By Zach Shaw
Smashing Pumpkins Frontman Billy Corgan Joins Pro Wrestling Company: MyFoxCHICAGO.com It’s not unusual to see the worlds of hard rock and wrestling.
Metal Insider

Russia reaps gold in sambo wrestling: Voice of Russia
Russian boys have won 16 gold, 9 silver and 8 bronze medals at a youth world championship in sambo wrestling. On the closing day on Sunday, four top awards went to Russia, two, to Georgia, two, to Ukraine, two, to Bulgaria, one, to Belarus …
Voice of Russia, News