Around 8:45 a.m., just after morning prayer, the wrestling room at St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark comes alive. Eighteen freshmen lace up their shoes, circle the mat, and dive into a 25-minute warmup ...

Fittingly, CM Punk takes a very different, understated approach to the Bucks when asking the fans to care about his matches. The old sentiment of a crowd riot is dead, but Punk faithfully reproduces ...

A few years of watching practices, duals, tournaments and championship bouts allows people to grasp elementary wrestling terms. "One not two" means giving up a one-point escape instead of a two-point ...

A wrestling dual includes 10 contested bouts, with one at each weight class. The weight classes are 125, 133, 141, 149, 157, 165, 174, 184, 197 and 285 pounds. Weigh-ins take place an hour before the ...

With roots in ancient Greece, wrestling, not surprisingly, is featured on the program for the first modern Games in Athens. Only one event - with no weight limit - was contested, and the winner was ...

Syntax might be that word. Pro wrestling is the art of the “when”. Imagine a match. Two wrestlers tie-up. Wrestler Y manages to cinch in a headlock about 10 seconds in. Wrestler X struggles in the ...

St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark offers a physical education class called Wrestling 101 to grow the sport. The course serves as an introduction for freshmen, most of whom have no prior wrestling ...