Short Time Wrestling Podcast

The Global Wrestling Championships will kick off on November 22 at Cornell University with three championship bouts. Wayne Boyd of the Titan Mercury Wrestling Club hosted a media conference call on Thursday, November 20 with legendary coach Dan Gable. Boyd answered questions from the media about the first Global Wrestling Championships and what the goals and long term ideas behind the organization...

After cutting his teeth coaching within the NCWA with the start-up club program at Stony Brook University on New York’s Long Island, Shaun Lally headed back home. The Lehigh Valley native recently took over the coaching position at Division III Muhlenberg, just a few miles from where he grew up wrestling in high school. After a collegiate career at Pittsburgh, Lally broke into coaching and got his...

We had some milestones on Thursday, November 13. Big program wins, new eras beginning and of course a reference to the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area. Oregon State achieved a milestone few teams in the sport of wrestling have eclipsed. The Beavers picked up the program’s 1,000th dual meet victory with a 43-6 win over NAIA Southern Oregon. Oregon State joins Iowa State and Oklahoma State as the o...

While it wasn’t full-on crazy this weekend, we certainly had our share of notable upsets, what the heck moments and yes … the Tampa Bay Buccaneers losing yet again. It’s tough being a Bucs fan, but then again, I was a Bucs fan during the creamsicle days, so I know what it’s like to be the only Bucs fan sitting alone at a table, looking at the bottom of an empty glass. Instead, I was proactive. I s...

Hey there folks, we're ready for season two of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast. The last few months, we’ve gone with more of an interview-style show, and that’s how I’m going to keep it for the time being. I’ll still provide some updates of the happenings in wrestling, but they’ll be on the Monday and Friday shows. If you’re new to the podcast, and you’re here by simply hitting that play button,...

We’ve got no guest on Short Time tonight, but we’ve got a lot of news from the kickoff weekend for most of the college wrestling programs around the country. Granted, the women and California junior colleges have been wrestling prior to this weekend, so we’re not trying to slight them, but with the All-Star Classic, some duals and some opens, here’s a quick rundown of the weekend’s happenings. The...

Carl Adams spent 41 years as a wrestling coach. As college practices started up on October 10, it would be the first time in over four decades Adams wasn't instructing young athletes on the wrestling mats. Boston University cut its wrestling program at the end of last season, leaving a deep scar on the legacy that surrounded its proud wrestling alumni. Adams, a consummate innovator and inventor, r...

After 19 years as the head wrestling coach at Penn, Roger Reina stepped away from coaching in 2005. While he doesn't have to concentrate on wrestling 100 percent of the time anymore, Reina is still actively involved with the sport. On Episode 115 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, Reina talks about his role as the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the upcoming NWCA All-Star Classic on...

After capping his career as a four-time All-American with a 2008 NCAA Division I title, Penn State alum Phil Davis moved quickly into the world of Mixed Martial Arts. On October 25 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the sixth-ranked Davis is set to take on fourth-ranked Glover Teixeira at UFC 179. We catch up with Davis to talk about his preparation in taking on a fighter with more professional experience...

In 1999, Morehead High School wrestling coach David Barker ran the Morehead Booster Club wrestling tournament in the border town of Eden, North Carolina. In 2000, the tournament became the Super 32 Challenge with the idea of bringing the top North Carolina high school wrestlers to one tournament. Initially drawing wrestlers from Virginia and North Carolina, the Super 32 has grown into the toughest...

In just its second year, Flowrestling's Who's #1 event has drawn in some of the top names in high school wrestling. With 11 of Flo's top-ranked wrestlers in the event, it's sure to be another action-packed dual at Lehigh University's Grace Hall. On episode 112 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we talk with Willie Saylor, a Lehigh Valley native and editor at Flowrestling to talk about some of th...

Andy Vogel has lived Division III wrestling. As an athlete, he was a three-time NCAA Division III All-American at Messiah and in 2001, was the runner-up at 149 pounds. Following graduation from Messiah, Vogel's coaching career started at Wheaton College. He landed the head coaching job at Gettysburg and is entering his eighth season at the helm. In 2012, Vogel was promoted to Assistant Athletic Di...

New Arizona State assistant coach Chris Pendleton comes north and joins us in studio for Episode 110 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast. Pendleton was in town following up on some recruiting, and of course, NCAA rules prohibit coaches from discussing any recruits with the media (or anyone else really) until they sign a letter of intent. So Pendleton sat down, thawed out from a brisk October eveni...

An All-American at 158 pounds in 1991 for the University of Missouri, stand-up comic Greg Warren will talk about wrestling any chance he gets. A fan of wrestling as a whole and a staunch supporter of his alma mater, Warren spends 180 days on the road doing comedy, but his knowledge of current happenings in wrestling might be the only current events he keeps up with regularly. On Episode 109 of the...

Virginia Beach native Bubba Jenkins has had a tumultuous life leading into his NCAA Division I championship a few years back. After putting the wrestling shoes away (at least for the most part), he joined the world of MMA. Now he's rising up the ranks in Bellator MMA and is on a four-fight win streak after beating Thiago Meller at Bellator 126. On Episode 108 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, w...

When Nestor Taffur walked off the mat in Oklahoma City after falling to Rutgers' Anthony Perrotti in the Round of 12, he walked off the mat as the very last competitive wrestler in the sport of wrestling for Boston University. The New Jersey native had proposed to his then-girlfriend earlier in the tournament, so it was a spectrum of emotion. As Taffur realized the program he'd given so much to wa...

Even as a sponsor to some of the top elite wrestlers in the country, what do you really know about Flipswrestling? On Episode 106 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we talk with the man behind Flipswrestling, New Jersey native Don Beshada. Among the things we'll talk with Beshada about are the foundations of Flipswrestling, how the brand has worked its way into wrestling, sponsoring athletes and...

During his tenure at Central Michigan as an Associate Athletics Director, Derek van der Merwe was the chairman of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee. He's seen a lot of changes of the past decade in the sport. Now, he's settled in as the Athletics Director at Austin Peay State University, or simply Austin Peay, a Division I school in Clarksville, Tenn. We'll talk with van der Merwe on the fol...

United World Wrestling president Nenad Lalovic hosted a wrap-up press conference on September 14 at 17:00 in room 202 in the Sports Complex building adjacent to the arena. Lalovic talked about the championships and was available to the media for questions. He had several guests with him at the press conference, including Russian wrestling great, Alexander Karelin, and Uzbekistan Bureau member and...

No medals for the United States on the final day of the United World Wrestling Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Spenser Mango finished fifth for the second year in a row, while Caylor Williams and Justin "Harry" Lester were eliminated from medal contention early in the day. Hear what the athletes and coach Matt Lindland had to say, with audio provided by USA Wrestling's Gary Abbott. Want an...

The sixth day at the United World Wrestling Championships wasn't a good one for the United States as Bryce Saddoris, Joe Rau and Robby Smith failed to place. Smith and Saddoris each won matches, while Rau was winning his match until getting pinned. We'll hear from U.S. Greco-Roman National Team Coach Matt Lindland and all three of the world teamers on Episode 103 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcas...

The Greco-Roman drought is over and the U.S. took third in the team race as Day 5 of the World Championships. Elena Pirozhkova earned her fourth world medal with a silver and helped lead coach Terry Steiner's squad to another top three finish. Andy Bisek won the first Greco-Roman medal since 2009 with a bronze at 75kg. Want an ad-free version of the show AND the best in wrestling news from around...

Adeline Gray became the fourth woman in American wrestling history to win four medals at the World Championships -- and she did it by taking the gold. Gray won her second world title with a 2-1 win over Brazil's Aline Da Silva Ferreira and had to go through a gauntlet of monster opponents to reach the final. We talk with Adeline Gray and her father George about the experience and overcoming a pers...

It was another one-medal day for the United States at the 2014 United World Wrestling Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Helen Maroulis won a bronze medal at 55kg, the second world medal of her career, while Alyssa Lampe just missed out on a medal, finishing fifth at 48kg. Japan crowned two champions, while other titles were won by Mongolia and Germany. With audio provided by USA Wrestling's G...

Full audio from the United World Wrestling press conference at the 2014 World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. There's a lot of Russian language in this. Want an ad-free version of the show AND the best in wrestling news from around the world? Sign up for the Daily Wrestling Newsletter presented by Resilite on Substack at https://www.mattalkonline.com/news   Links to Follow Join the Discord:...