Wrestling

6/18/2025 |  Real American Freestyle wrestling to debut at Cleveland’s Wolstein Center with Olympic medalists (Associated Press (AP)) Real American Freestyle wrestling’s inaugural event will be held at the 13,000-seat Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio on Aug. 30, commissioner Hulk Hogan said in a statement.
“Cleveland is an incredible city, and Real American Freestyle is channeling its rock and roll style into this first event,” he said.

6/12/2025 |  Las Vegas to Host WrestleMania 42 at Allegiant Stadium (SportsTravel) WWE, in partnership with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, has announced that WrestleMania will return to Las Vegas for a second straight year in 2026.
Allegiant Stadium will host WrestleMania 42 on Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April 19, 2026. It will be the first time in the event’s history that it takes place in the same city in back-to-back years.

6/11/2025 |  Logan Storley believes NIL money could affect how many collegiate wrestlers go to MMA: 'It has changed a lot' (CBS Sports) One of the early shifts in mixed martial arts came when dominant American wrestlers entered the game, nullifying strikers and often being able to smother jiu jitsu specialists with their size, strength and dominant top games. Former interim Bellator welterweight champion and current PFL contender Logan Storley believes MMA's future will see far fewer wrestlers make the transition to the sport thanks to name, image and likeness (NIL) deals at the collegiate level.

6/9/2025 |  All-time great wrestler Hakuho quits Japan Sumo Association with plans to form global body (Associated Press (AP)) TOKYO (AP) — Hakuho, a retired “yokozuna” or grand champion and viewed by many as the sport’s greatest wrestler, said Monday he has quit the Japan Sumo Association after an apparent falling out with the governing body of the ancient sport.
The Mongolia-born Hakuho was earlier sanctioned by the Japan Sumo Association, accused of failing to control the behavior of a wrestler in his so-called stable, the term used for a training team headed by retired wrestlers.

6/5/2025 |  ‘We want WrestleMania to come to London’: Mayor makes pitch to WWE legend Triple H (CNBC Sports)

• London Mayor Sadiq Khan made a pitch to World Wrestling Entertainment legend Paul “Triple H” Levesque to bring Wrestlemania to the U.K. capital.
• “I’d love for Wrestlemania to come to London,” Khan told CNBC’s Tania Bryer. “Triple H if you’re watching, we want Wrestlemania to come to London.”
• Khan said hosting Wrestlemania in London would “open a completley new market for” the WWE.