In Folkstyle Coleman (Ohio State) was an NCAA champ defeating Mike Davies from Arizona State
Kerr (syracuse)was an NCAA champ defeating Couture(OK STATE) making him an NCAA runner up
Kurt Angle was a 2x NCAA Champ beating in the finals one year Sylvestar Terkay(pride/k1/pro wrestling) from NC State
Coleman made the 1992 Olympics
Kerr made 1994 World Team
Coleman beat Kerr and Angle at 1994 Sunkist tournament
Kurt Angle won 1995 world championships and 1996 Olympics
Randy Couture was in a 6 way dance for the weight class and in 2000 a 20 year old minnesota olympic redshirt came out of no where and made the olympic team taking broze in sydney named Garret Lowney. Lowney decided to sit out of school that year taking a second redshirt to train for the Olympics because he couldn't make the starting line up at University of Minnesota, the starter that year? Brock Lesnar.
Recent WEC fighter Aaron Simpson beat Bobby Lashley in a wrestling match, at 177 pounds!!!
Mo Lawal wrestled Ryan Bader in college winning the match.
Cb Dalloway and future mma star Muz Abrakmanov were jr. college teamates at Colby.
Mike Van Arsdale beat Cael Sanderson (undefeated in college) at the 2000 Olympic Trials.
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good stuff
Don Frye wrestled at ASU and OK STATE
Dan Severn was number 1 ranked hwt in the nation freshman year before having a "career ending" knee injury.
Anybody got some Tom Erikson stuff?
Tom Erikson wrestled for OK State as well
OK STATE guys in MMA
Jake Rosholt
Mo Lawal
Johnny Hendricks
Shane Roller
Don Frye
Tom Erikson
Randy Couture
Kenny Monday
Ohio State
Mark Coleman
Kevin Randleman
Sean Salmon
Purdue
Jake Obrian
Tom Erikson(assistant coach)
John Fitch
Arizona State
CB Dalloway
Kellan Fluckinger
Cain Valezquez
Townsend Saunders
Aaron Simpson
Don Frye
Ryan Bader
Dan Severn
Dan Henderson
Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club
Tom Erikson
Dan Severn
Mark Kerr
Mark Coleman
Randy Couture
Matt Lindland
Kevin Jackson
CB Dalloway
Kellan Fluckinger
Cain Valezquez
Townsend Saunders
Aaron Simpson
Don Frye
Ryan Bader
Dan Severn
Dan Henderson
Mike Van Arsdale
Mo Lawal
Rulon Gardner
Nick Nutter also wrestled at OSU
err...Ohio State
Mike Van Arsdale beat Cael Sanderson (undefeated in college) at the 2000 Olympic Trials.
worth repeating, IMO
great match, both Iowa St. guys, Van Arsdale was near the end of his freestyle career, Cael was beginning......
Mike Van Arsdale is at the Lions Den in Scottsdale now teaching MMA. Him and Rick Roufus at the same gym lookout!
Joe Riggs beat Rod Severn's son (Dan's Nephew) in the Arizona State Highschool finals at heavyweight
damn, I would say randy hasn't aged
but he looks 40 in that card lol
indeed Hojak
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Hojak - Randy Couture was in a 6 way dance for the weight class and in 2000 a 20 year old minnesota olympic redshirt named Garret Lowney came out of no where and made the olympic team taking broze in sydney. Lowney decided to sit out of school that year taking a second redshirt to train for the Olympics because he couldn't make the starting line up at University of Minnesota, the starter that year? Brock Lesnar.
If I'm reading this right, an olympic-level wrestler that edged Randy out of a spot on a team had to sit out of collegiate wrestling because he didn't make the starting line-up that Brock Lesnar was on at the University of Minnesota.
Indeed, that is interesting.
Greco is a completely different beast than folkstyle.
Also, Lowney was wrestling at 211 in greco,and heavyweight in college while the heavyweight limit in NCAA is 275. Having to wrestle guys who considerably outweigh you, while adding in leg attacks when your specialty is upper body positioning/throws, makes a world of difference.
its just showing the difference between 211 pound wrestlers vs 285 pound wrestlers.
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