Wrestling

Sue O’Connell spoke with Steve Fall, host of NBC Sports Boston’s wrestling podcast ‘Ten Count’, who talks to wrestlers and industry leaders every week to explore the latest storylines and developments in the wide world of wrestling.

A 24-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested Monday night following an attack on WWE star Seth Rollins, according to police. Elisah Spencer, the NYPD said, ran toward and tackled Rollins at Barclays Center in Brooklyn during the live broadcast of WWE’s Monday Night Raw. According to police, at around 9:20 p.m., Spencer left his seating section, jumped the metal barricade...

Legendary pro wrestler “Mr. USA” Tony Atlas is fully vaccinated against COVID, and he said it wasn’t a decision he made with any political implications. “Joe, you’re doing a good job,” the WWE Hall of Famer and 1980s wrestling superstar said Friday, referring to President Joe Biden, when we ran into him at a gas station in Massachusetts. “Trump,...

WWE Superstars Jeff Hardy and Drew McIntyre spoke to NBC10 Boston about the league’s first Boston event in nearly 2 years. This Monday, WWE will host Monday Night Raw at the TD Garden.

John Cena returns to the WWE ring to face Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship on Saturday at SummerSlam.

In the 97kg wrestling final on Saturday, Team USA’s Kyle Snyder lost 6-3 to Russian Olympic Committee’s Abdulrashid Saduleav.

As a gold medal wrestler, Gable is very in-tune with his own weight, but can he guess the weight of a smartphone? A flat screen TV? Or his own gold medal?

Golden medalist Gable Steveson tried his hand at sports announcing. Only instead of sports highlights, we gave him random stock video clips of people wrestling.

American wrestler Kyle Snyder lost 6-3 to Russian Olympic Committee’s Abdulrashid Sadulaev in a battle of Olympic champions on Saturday for the men’s freestyle 97kg title. At 20 years old, Snyder won the 97kg title at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The feat made the Ohio State Buckeye the youngest wrestler to ever win an NCAA championship, world championship and Olympic…

American wrestler Kyle Snyder lost 6-3 to Russian Olympic Committee’s Abdulrashid Sadulaev in a battle of Olympic champions on Saturday for the men’s freestyle 97kg title. At 20 years old, Snyder won the 97kg title at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The feat made the Ohio State Buckeye the youngest wrestler to ever win an NCAA championship, world championship and Olympic…

“Wrestling specifically takes a lot of time,” said gold medal winner David Taylor. “Now, it’s like, I know when that time is away from my family, away from my daughter. It means a little bit more.”

David Morris won the gold in wrestling then he stopped by the set to play “Wrong Answers Only.”

The 21-year-old managed to turn around a losing 8-5 match into a 10-8 victory.

American Gable Steveson pulled off a miracle, last-second comeback to defeat Geno Petriashvili of Georgia in the final of the men’s freestyle 125kg weight class — and then he busted out his signature backflip.

American wrestler Kyle Synder won his semifinal match and moved on for a chance at gold in the men’s freestyle 97kg wrestling event.  Snyder defeated Turkey’s Suleyman Karadeniz 5-0 in the semifinal match. The 2016 gold medalist previously took down Canadian Jordan Steen 12-2 in the Round of 16 and Abraham Conyedo of Italy 6-0 in the quarterfinals.  The...

American wrestler Gable Steveson was seconds away from losing to Georgia’s Geno Petriashvili. But Steveson’s two-point takedown as the clock ticked down to zero secured a come-from-behind win and the gold medal Steveson had an early 4-0 lead on Petriashvili and recovered nicely on a Petriashvili turn to gain a point back as the scored narrowed to 5-2. The...

It was a busy morning at the Makuhari Messe Hall, where the United States had a number of wrestlers competing on the mat. The headline for the Americans in wrestling was David Taylor taking in his gold medal in the men’s freestyle 86kg event, but there were three other American competitors that won their important matches. American Thomas Gilman...

American David Taylor beat Iran’s Hassan Yazdani on Thursday to win gold in the men’s freestyle 86kg event.

American David Taylor mounted a comeback against Iran’s Hassan Yazdani to win gold in the men’s freestyle 86kg event.  Down 3-2 with less than 20 seconds remaining, Taylor was able to get on top of Yazdani and notch the critical two points to give him the lead and then let the clock tick away.  Yazdani earned a point early...

Tamyra Mensah-Stock is the first Black woman to win a gold medal in wrestling. She explained why her gold medal matters and she hopes will make a difference for a new generation.