...Victor Moore had a wrestling career that most could only dream. In his final year of wrestling at Calaveras High School, finished with a record of 47-9. Moore was a two-time Mother Lode League champion, a two-time CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division V champion, runner up at the Masters Tournament and a CIF State qualifier. Now that Moore has finished his Calaveras wrestling career, he can see how it shaped him into the man he is today. “It means a lot because before I came here, I wrestled at my old school and it was just a side thing to do because I was board,” Moore said. “But here, I learned that wrestling isn’t just a sport you do in high school. It’s something that helps you with your work ethic.” Moore finished in the top 12 at the State...
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...Constant drilling, sweat dripping, and four days before our Napa Wrestling Tournament, open to the whole state of California. Some of the best wrestlers all over California were coming to Napa. But it had to be that week when my knee had begun to swell. In folk-style wrestling for a takedown to count, you must touch the mat with your knee before the person hits the floor. The constant friction between my knee and the mat made the pain in my knee unbearable. All this pain called for a visit to the school’s athletic trainer, Jorge Maldonado. I knew I wanted to be in something that had to do with kinesiology, but I also knew I had to interact with people. When I saw Jorge work with other athletes, taping, evaluating, all while sharing a quick laugh with them, I had to learn more. I had to get hands on experience. Spring time came around and it was time to pick my classes for senior year. Science was my favorite subject, but I liked a specific type. I wanted to learn kinesiology. I wanted to learn more about how the human body moves, like the way humans walk, what makes it so different that we walk at different paces? Why does Usain Bolt run faster than an average person? What makes athletes’ bodies different from everybody else’s?...
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...wrestler, who spent most of his career with the WWE. During his career Michaels has won numerous awards, including the record eleven Slammy Awards and has also been champion four times. His career as a professional wrestler was active for more than 25 years, from 1984 until his retirement in 2010. Have you ever wondered how rich Shawn Michaels is? According to sources, it has been estimated that Shawn Michaels`s net worth is $17 million, an amount earned through his successful career as the wrestler. Shawn Michaels Net Worth $17 Million During his childhood, as he was a child of a military officer, Michaels moved frequently. Some of his early years he spent in Reading, England, however, the majority of his childhood days he spent in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from “Randolph High School”, where his athleticism came on display; he excelled in various sports, mostly football, and eventually he became the captain of the team. Following the graduation, he enrolled the “Southwest Texas State University”, however, soon he realized that studying is not for him, and...
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...Is Pro Wrestling fake or real? EN1320 Comp1 Research Paper IIT-Tech As long time avid fan of pro wrestling I always get ask is pro wrestling is fake? Sure pro wrestling is a male oriented soap opera, that storylines and matches do have predetermined outcome. Predetermined meaning the refs, wrestlers and bookers know who is going to win or lose a match before the actual match starts. Yes the hazards can be real inside the squared circle because if a wrestler receives or takes a “bump” the wrong way. It could be a career ending injury that wrestler might not even wrestle again. That being said every pro wrestler trains day in and day out to insure nobody gets hurt in the squared circle. For the untrained eye or people who don’t follow wrestling do not factor that in. Now the question that is always topic of debate about pro wrestling is it a sport or entertainment? Pro wrestling is part entertainment part sport because Greco Roman wrestling style it uses. The moves preformed like headlocks, suplexs and slams come from the Greco Roman wrestling style. Pro wrestling uses “Gimmicks” meaning the persona, usually artificially created; one has in order to draw fan interest. Here is where the entertainment comes into play for pro wrestling. Without the entertainment aspect of it, pro wrestling would boring, stale and not really fun to watch. Who wouldn’t want to watch a guy named “Dude Love” an overweight guy wearing tie dye, sunglasses and talking like a throwback 1960's hippie...
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...Ask any person about what they think about wrestling. The chances that wrestling fans will hear is “it’s fake”. But wrestling, in general, is sports entertainment. A young boy has been a fan of wrestling ever since he was five years because his grandma showed him one episode of Monday Night Raw. He would watch every episode and also went to his first ever live event on April 10, 2006, an episode of Raw in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The event was an experience of a lifetime because it was his first time going to a wrestling show until someone, out of nowhere, screamed out “wrestling is fake!”. At first, the boy didn’t believe him, but as he grew older, he soon realizes that is fake. However, that word did not get into his mind. Many people assume that everything in professional wrestling is rigged somehow. There are people who are determine that there is always a way to make everything hurt less while still making it look real. Yet the fact is that...
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...John Cena was born in West Newbury, Massachusetts. He was raised with four other brothers and other family members. He attended a private boarding school and later graduated from Springfield College in Massachusetts. He ended up earning a degree in exercise physiology. He eventually decided to pursue a career in bodybuilding. Before he ended up in WWE professional wrestling, John Cena worked as a driver for a limousine company. Let's just hope he didn't have to drive the funeral homes limousine. Later in life, John Cena started his professional wrestling career in the World Wrestling Federation (now, the World Wrestling Entertainment) in October 2000. Eventually, John Cena was up against renowned fighters, that not only fought him, but lost to him too! In February, 2013, Cena suffered a legitimate achilles tendon injury. John Cena’s injuries threatened to ruin his WWE career as...
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...Is Pro Wrestling fake or real? (07/31/2015) EN1320 Comp1 Research Paper IIT-Tech As long time avid fan of pro wrestling I always get ask is pro wrestling is fake? Sure pro wrestling is a male oriented soap opera, that storylines and matches do have predetermined outcome. Predetermined meaning the refs, wrestlers and bookers know who is going to win or lose a match before the actual match starts. Yes the hazards can be real inside the squared circle because if a wrestler receives or takes a “bump” the wrong way. It could be a career ending injury that wrestler might not even wrestle again. That being said every pro wrestler trains day in and day out to insure nobody gets hurt in the squared circle. For the untrained eye or people who don’t follow wrestling do not factor that in. Now the question that is always topic of debate about pro wrestling is it a sport or entertainment? Pro wrestling is part entertainment part sport because Greco Roman wrestling style it uses. The moves preformed like headlocks, suplexs and slams come from the Greco Roman wrestling style. Pro wrestling uses “Gimmicks” meaning the persona, usually artificially created; one has in order to draw fan interest. Here is where the entertainment comes into play for pro wrestling. Without the entertainment aspect of it, pro wrestling would boring, stale and not really fun to watch. Who wouldn’t want to watch a guy named “Dude Love” an overweight guy wearing tie dye, sunglasses and talking like a throwback...
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...honestly tell you that wrestling is what defines me; leadership, talent, comfort, and family. Wrestling was introduced to me at the age of eight with club wrestling, arising in me a growing desire and ache for competition and the will to win. My love of wrestling developed over the following year and throughout the years, many titles were added to my repertoire. The diversity of wrestling events further increased my exhilaration for the sport. Over the years, there were few wrestlers who I considered my mentors. I believed that these wrestlers led by example demonstrating determination, dedication, and leadership. When I look back, they were the ones that impacted my young soul as an athlete. My obvious love of the sport and true dedication to improving was acknowledged when I was chosen to represent our team in both my junior and senior year as the captain. This honorable position has strengthened my self-confidence by building strong, candid, and respectful relationships with both my coaches and teammates. Holding the title of captain has forced me to develop better communication skills while employing my gregarious personality, and experiencing the complexities of both assertiveness and humility. This leadership role has bettered me in a multitude of ways. Since my junior year, I have worked my way through a diversity of matches, each providing their unique lessons and moments of joy. The summer between my junior and senior, I was on the wrestling team that competed...
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...Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame 2015 – The Role of Historical Influence Emphasised on Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame ballots are the notions of value to the industry, trend-setting, and positive historical significance. All of these criteria may lie within the broad domain of "influence", however, much like the majority of the non-drawing related Hall of Fame criteria, a great deal is left to the voter's interpretation. How did historical context affect the success of a performer's run? Did the legacy the candidate leave result in further creative, artistic, and monetary victories in the business? Did the candidate perhaps define a role, and if so, would it have come about or been drastically different without them? These are all natural...
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...my life, I have dedicated my mind, body, and spirit to the sport of wrestling. It is a sport that takes not only the sacrifice of time, but the sacrifice of my own health and mentality. The effects of this sport are evident to some aspect in all wrestlers, and I want to explore how wrestling has affected individuals who have severely dedicated themselves to the sport. In addition, many have always looked at wrestling as an inadequate sport, or even that it “isn’t a sport.” Few understand the true testament wrestlers take in their sport and the physical and mental endurance they need to succeed in it. Researching this topic would not require much or any funding, and I will most likely invest around fifty to one hundred hours to complete the project. I have already spent countless hours wrestling and completed my final season this February, so I will not have to wrestle anymore to complete this project. Researching the effects of high school wrestling will help me change others to view wrestling as a respectable sport rather than a brutish one. Reasons and Warrant...
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...“My Short-lived Career as a Teenaged Female Wrestler” was an article by Megan Koester, It was about this teenager who wasn’t athletic, but still went out for the wrestling team. She agreed to got to championships and lost every single match there, You can make it a bit more interesting by just adding more detail, build up, and more to the ending. The story has a good base to it but, it can be better by implementing the stuff listed above. One thing the article was missing was enough detail to really explain her story. If maybe she had the name of her friends and what was their take on the entire situation. In the story, the only people really explained was her father and some of her competitors. There was no note of how the rest of the school did, and that's a missed opportunity to gloat about potentially getting the...
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...hundred members including Ultimate Fighter Winner Tony Ferguson and professional boxer Victor Ortiz. Every day, the gym is open from 7am-9pm. They offer classes in weight lifting, MMA, wrestling, boxing, kick boxing, jujitsu and basic conditioning. All the trainers are former fighters and are extremely knowledgeable with the fighting world. There’s such a wide variety of fighters from different weight classes, ethnicities, body types, ages, fighting techniques and much more. Furthermore, when one walks into this gym, there’s a certain attitude all possess. Fight mode must be on when entering the gym and all worries and problems are left behind the door. Although there are many different individuals specializing in different areas of fighting, they all come for the same purpose and that is to better themselves as a fighter or condition their bodies, but most important to have more discipline and focus their careers as a future professional athlete. For one week, I spent time with one mixed martial arts fighter who goes by the name of Benji Gomez. His fighting name is The Brawler. Benji has been a wrestler for thirteen years and has focused on becoming a professional MMA fighter for four years now. Moreover, he is a three time state wrestling champion and former golden gloves champion and has an amateur MMA record of seven wins and one loss....
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...professional wrestler for over 20 years. Evans is one of the most respected grapplers on the New England independent circuit; the network of smaller wrestling events which inhabit the local VFW halls and National Guard Armories in several towns across the country that serves as the wrestling fan's fix when the global juggernaut, World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) events are either out of town or just too expensive to attend. The New England region has produced some of the biggest names in the history of the Pro Wrestling and while many wrestlers from the region have climbed the ladder of success over the years, Evans has remained on the "indies": wrestling and promoting his own events with other local WWE hopefuls for over two decades, awaiting his chance at becoming a world-wide superstar. That chance, at least in Evans' case, is something that will likely never come. The WWE is notorious for signing athletes over six feet tall, weighing over two hundred-fifty pounds, with looks and personalities that can be fed into their global marketing machine. The feeling of rejection by the national companies of professional wrestling is one that often leads to bitterness, contempt and most often, wrestlers simply quitting the business. Bob Evans: six feet tall, pale, bald and ginger has taken all of those traits and has embraced it as his wrestling persona; a bitter, ugly old timer who takes his frustrations out on his opponents. "I know I'm not easy to look at and I don't fit the WWE's...
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...2013. Punk is officially recognized as the sixth-longest reigning champion of all time. In professional wrestling, Punk is a seven-time World Champion, having held the ROH World Championship and ECW Championship once each, WWE's World Heavyweight Championship three times, and the WWE Championship twice. He won the World Tag Team Championship (with Kofi Kingston) and the WWE Intercontinental Championship, making him the 19th WWE Triple Crown Champion and the fastest man in WWE history to achieve this feat, in 203 days.[11] Between WWE and Ring of Honor (where he is a two-time World Tag Team Champion), Punk has won a total of 11 championships. He won the 2008 and 2009 Money in the Bank ladder matches (the only wrestler to win the match twice[12]) and the 2011 Superstar of the Year Slammy Award Punk initially came to prominence through his career on the professional wrestling independent circuit, primarily as a member of the ROH roster. There, he was the first head trainer of the ROH wrestling school. Also while competing in ROH, Punk won both the company's championships. In 2005, Punk signed a contract with WWE and was sent to its developmental promotion, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he won every championship available in that promotion. On June 24, 2006, Punk made his WWE television debut, performing in ECW, which was then a branch of WWE. Throughout his career, Punk has consistently used the gimmick of being an outspoken, sharp-tongued, and straight edge iconoclast...
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...impacted by our experiences, different forms of media, and the people around us. Although I believe we have innate personality’s, the majority of who we are today comes from the environment around us. For this reason, it is extremely important to only let positive influences insert themselves into our lives. Through my experiences in wrestling, the teachings Elliot Hulse, and spending time with the great people I have met throughout my life, I have developed strong values involving hard work, following one’s heart, and maintaining a positive outlook on life. My experiences with wrestling all started in 8th grade and since then I have been getting the importance of hard work drilled into my head....
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