UNION CITY - Each year the Union City Athletic Hall of Fame honors individual athletes who have excelled on and off the field at Union City High School, while also recognizing some of its absolute ...

J. R. Plienis, McDonogh, Sr., Heavyweight (31-0): Plienis (235 pounds), a three-time All-Metro ranked No. 2 nationally, overcame career-threatening knee surgery to nail a school-record 25 first-period ...

Previously on the Best and Worst of WCW Monday Nitro: Jerry Flynn debuted! Get hype! Also on the show, Masahiro Chono joined the nWo to form nWo Japan, Kevin Nash accused the Faces of Fear of giving ...

Wrestling needed a change and there were three seeds planted in the mid-90s to accommodate. Wrestling programs have traditionally been aired on Saturdays, with pay-per-views airing on Sunday night.

This was to have been a glorious year for USA Wrestling. The national federation would have nine past and present world champions competing for spots on what figured to be its strongest freestyle ...

When wrestling fans are asked to name the industry’s most influential year, a few come to mind. There’s the 1985 Rock ’N’ Wrestling Connection with WWF on MTV, the same year WrestleMania debuted.

So I have an idea: since I’m reviewing pay-per-views in chronological order, I might as well do a year-end recap at the end of every retro year. So far, we’ve covered the second half of 1996 where a ...

Dave Spicer, Westminster: Every year, there seems to be a surprise who makes the state tournament weekend at Western Maryland College a special time. When Spicer went with a risky lateral drop ...

And in this article, we highlight a Japanese wrestler who competed for the Nittany Lions, Sanshiro Abe. However, Abe was not the first talented grappler from the country of Japan to compete for Penn ...

Spectators at Saturday’s wrestling sectional at Downers Grove North witnessed an action-packed meet with drama that will undoubtedly carry over to next weekend’s state finals at Assembly Hall in ...

My friends and I were at the old armory in Tampa one evening about 25 years ago. We were about 16, and like many teenagers, we’d go to great lengths in search of entertainment. The star in the ring ...