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Russian UFC fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov, left, fights with UFC fighter Dustin Poirier, of Lafayette, La., during Lightweight title mixed martial arts bout at UFC 242, in Yas Mall in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday , Sept.7 2019. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Khaled)

Nurmagomedov beats Poirier, stays unbeaten at UFC 242

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In this Aug. 18, 2016, file photo, United States' Helen Louise Maroulis, right, and Ukraine's Yuliia Khavaldzhy Blahinya compete during the women's wrestling freestyle 53-kg competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The NCAA committee on women's athletics is recommending all three divisions add women's wrestling as an emerging sport, a key step toward making it a championship-level sport. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) **FILE**

NCAA recommends women’s wrestling as ‘emerging sport’

By Luke Meredith - Associated Press

Penn State'a Mark Hall, right, lifts North Carolina's Devin Kane in their 174 lbs. match in the first round of the NCAA college wrestling championship, Thursday, March 21, 2019, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Nolf, Nickal, Cassar win NCAA titles for Penn State

By TRAVIS JOHNSON - Associated Press

Athletes prep for first girls wrestling tournament

By JANE HAVSY - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo shows a photo of Dr. Richard Strauss. Former Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee and former vice president of human resources Linda Tom tell The Columbus Dispatch they don’t remember receiving any complaints about the now-dead doctor, Strauss. (Ohio State University via AP, File)

Ex-athletes: Creepy people, lewd atmosphere at Ohio State

By MARK GILLISPIE and JOHN SEEWER and MITCH STACY - Associated Press

Aidan Cornell, 10, from Jackson Township, Pa., battles his sister Grace at a York Armfighters practice on April 10, 2018. The Armfighters, from York, Pa., are a youth arm wrestling club team that is a member of the Myofit Junior Armfighter league. The team is hoping to compete in a junior nationals event in Orlando in November. (Maddie Crocenzi/York Daily Record via AP)

Kids in this arm wrestling club have big dreams

By MADDIE CROCENZI and York Daily Record - Associated Press

In this Dec. 30, 2016, file photo, Ronda Rousey stands in the cage after Amanda Nunes forced a stoppage in the first round of their women's bantamweight championship mixed martial arts bout at UFC 207 in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) ** FILE **

Ronda Rousey wins WWE debut at WrestleMania 34

By Adam Zielonka - The Washington Times

United State's Kyle Dake, left, takes India's Sachin Giri to the mat during their 79 kg match in the Freestyle Wrestling World Cup, Saturday, April 7, 2018, in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Absence of Russia, Iran mars US-held wrestling World Cup

By LUKE MEREDITH - Associated Press

Iran’s resigned wrestling chief criticizes government

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Bryant went from delivering shots to calling ‘em

By JOHN SACCO and (Washington) Observer-Reporter - Associated Press

In this Jan. 22, 2018 photo, young wrestlers train in the street during the week-long student wrestling championship coined &quot;The truth of my neighborhood,&quot; organized by locals in the Chicharrones neighborhood of Santiago, Cuba. In this neighborhood, a wrestling-loving local man created a homegrown, neighborhood-backed program to support aspiring wrestlers from Cuba's economically struggling provinces. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

AP PHOTOS: Cuban conductor’s homemade wrestling competition

By RAMON ESPINOSA - Associated Press

In this Jan. 27, 2018 photo, Midland University's Leilani Camargo-Naone, right, wrestles Missouri Valley College's Alyssa Cantu during a bout at the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference championships in Fremont, Neb. Leilani Camargo-Naone represents Midland's best chance for a national title. The sophomore from Wai'anae, on the west side of Oahu, is ranked No. 4 in the nation at 191 and was the only Midland wrestler to win a conference championship. She's 61-9 with 40 pins in her career. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Small school in Nebraska big on female wrestlers from Hawaii

By ERIC OLSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2015, file photo, Jon Jones, right, kicks Daniel Cormier during their light heavyweight title mixed martial arts bout at UFC 182 in Las Vegas. Jones has threatened to show up at WWE’s SummerSlam event and scout potential rival Brock Lesnar. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

MMA fighters, pro wrestlers blur line in fight game

By DAN GELSTON - Associated Press

President Donald Trump arrives to speak during the Celebrate Freedom event at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Saturday, July 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump’s Twitter battle with press may come with a price

By JILL COLVIN and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

The University of Great Falls is adding women’s wrestling

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In this Oct. 6, 1972, file photo, wrestler Ken Patera, right, poses with promoter Verne Gagne in Minneapolis. Gagne, one of professional wrestling's most celebrated performers and promoters died on Monday, April 27, 2015 at age 89. (Powell Kruege/Star Tribune via AP)

Verne Gagne, wrestling legend, dies at age 89

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This 2013 photo provided by USA Wrestling shows Matt Lindall who became the first new U.S. coach in nearly two decades this spring. There’s hardly a sport in the world with a duller reputation than Greco-Roman wrestling. Lindland, an Olympic silver medalist and retired mixed martial arts fighter, is charged with bringing fresh energy to a program that had grown so stale that it finished without a medal at the Olympics in 2012 for the first time in 36 years. (AP Photo/USA Wrestling)

Lindland seeks to revive US Greco-Roman wrestling

By LUKE MEREDITH - Associated Press

Team USA's Nahshon Garrett, left, grapples for leverage against Russia's Georgi Vangelov during an exhibition wrestling match in Times Square, Wednesday, May 7, 2014, in New York. Wrestlers competing in the exhibition included past and potential future Olympic athletes from the USA, Russia, Bulgaria, Venezuela and Canada. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

American wrestlers win Times Square event

By RACHEL COHEN - Associated Press

Eureka High School sophomore Matthew Bozdech and his father, Paul Bozdech, are photographed on March 21, 2014 in St. Louis. Bozdech, 15, wants to play field hockey for his school, but the school only has a girls team. No school in Missouri, or for hundreds of miles around, has a boys team. The Bozdechs filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education alleging Matt was discriminated against because he’s a boy, and was retaliated against for complaining about his exclusion. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Gooden) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT

Mo. boy facing uphill battle to play field hockey

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