The same thing that happens when you don’t protect at-risk sports. They go extinct.
The Selk’nam were the most powerful warring tribe on the islands named  Tierra del Fuego by Magellan and the explorers who first saw plumes of smoke coming from encampments off the coast of Chile in 1520.
Lucas Bridges, wrote that Selk’nam wrestling involved holding the arms of one’s opponent and attempting to throw him to the ground while never breaking the hold, fighting until one or the other …

The title of this article could have also read “World’s Largest Traditional Wrestling League Holds National Tournament”
This week, the NCAA — the self-righteous governing body of amateur  collegiate sports in America — is hosting the 82nd Annual NCAA Wrestling Tournament in St. Louis Missouri. The tournament is being covered by all types of national media, including the worldwide leader in sports (ESPN) who will broadcast every round for the first time in tournament history.
Of course this is a significant traditional wrestling …

The recent destruction of the Penn State campus came as a welcome Wednesday night surprise for many in the sports media. A coach ousted after a sex scandal is below-the-fold stuff when it happens at also-ran’s like Kent State, but at Penn State, with the winningest coach in NCAA Division I football history? Ratings gold.
Student’s seemed to understand the media’s appetite for calling the play-by-play of last night’s activity. Some of them responded by keeping reporters sent to cover JoePa’s …

I recently wrote an opinion piece for Intermat that explores the wrestling communities multi-layered reaction to the on-mat acrobatics of 20-year-old Greco-Roman wrestler Ellis Coleman. The goal of the article was to stoke the creative minds within the American wrestling community in the hopes that they see the need for ideas like Wrestling Roots, which seek to push the conversation about wrestling in new and exciting directions.
 Amateur wrestling needs to ask itself if it is willing to track towards a …