Gene Zannetti of Wrestling Mindset returns to the World Wrestling Resource Podcast to give an update on the growth of the business and update listeners as to what Wrestling Mindset has been able to do within wrestling and beyond.Founded by former Penn wrestlers, Wrestling Mindset evolved from a fitness brand to a mindset training company that e ...…

While in Trnava, Slovakia for the 2018 Junior World Championships, we got a chance to talk with Pedro Silva, the President of the Wrestling Federation of Portugal. Silva's been around the sport for decades in a number of roles and he'll talk about that background and the culture of wrestling in Portugal.Silva is also running for a position on t ...…

Episode 65 talks with one of the world's top wrestling photographers, Tony Rotundo of www.WrestlersAreWarriors.com. A native New Yorker who did a little bit of international wrestling in his youth, Rotundo has become one of the most versatile shooters in the world. Rotundo has covered a number of World Championships and the 2016 Olympic Games a ...…

Episode 64 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast visits with Vinay Siwach, a sports journalist for The Indian Express in New Dehli, India. Siwach has covered wrestling for the paper the last five years and he'll talk about the dynamic of Indian wrestling, how Olympic medals won by Sushil Kumar kickstarted interest in the sport in the country, ...…

Lúcás Ó'Ceallacháin, the interim High Performance Manager for Wrestling Canada, has spent the last five years heavily involved in wrestling. On Episode 63 of the World Wrestling Resource, we'll talk to the native Irishman about his background in sports management, how it developed based on his linguistic skills and what the last five years have ...…

Olympic champion Ben Peterson and World Wrestling Resource co-founder Jon McGovern join host Jason Bryant on the latest edition of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast to break down Peterson's vision of leadership. Peterson talks about his background in what he believes makes good leaders and how he's presented his leadership speech over the ye ...…

One of the larger stories that came out of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia was the one of Kevin Wallen. The president of the Jamaica Wrestling Federation, Wallen competed at 86kg in freestyle and won his opening match 11-10 over a wrestler from the Bahamas. At 48 years old. On Episode 61 of the World Wrestling Resource, we' ...…

While at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, Jason Bryant caught up with the Treasurer of Wrestling Australia, Lazarus "Larry" Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos has been working the GC2018 Games as a color commentator for the television broadcasts and he also works with the rugby and Aussie rules football leagues to work wrestling techniq ...…

United World Wrestling brings the Men's Freestyle World Cup to Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City on April 7-8, 2018. On this episode of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we talk with U.S. National Freestyle coach Bill Zadick about the event. Zadick reflects on last year's World championship in Paris and what it was like to see wrestlers lik ...…

Mike Moyer of the National Wrestling Coaches Association again joins the World Wrestling Resource Podcast to talk about the recent additions and subtractions in college wrestling. What is the NWCA doing to help save the program at Eastern Michigan and what led to the addition of wrestling at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock? Strategies, u ...…

Nick Mitchell has built what he calls a Championship Lifestyle at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. On Episode 57 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we talk with the Wartburg alum who has led the Vikings to six NCAA Division III championships in a row and seven National Duals titles in a row. As the program nears the end of its 1 ...…

Technology advances have made training and athletes bigger, stronger, and stronger. On Episode 56 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we talk with John Lally, the President and CEO of PIVOT Sports Global about Firstbeat, a product geared at providing elite athletes and teams the ability to understand their workouts and performance by data- ...…

Mike Moyer is the Executive Director of the National Wrestling Coaches Association and the NWCA will be hosting one of the nation's biggest college wrestling events on January 4-5 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It's the NWCA Multi-Divisional National Duals and Fort Wayne will host 86 teams in five college divisions to determine a dual meet champion in ...…

The holiday breaks mean food, family, fun, presents and long days in gyms for wrestling tournaments. As long as there's been holiday wrestling tournaments, there's been skin infections, funk and junk. On Episode 54 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we talk with Guy Sako, the founder of Defense Soap, to talk about prevention, treatment an ...…

Sportsmanship is something the sport of wrestling throws at you with headlocks, snap downs and cross faces. It's not the most delicate of sports, but there's an element of sportsmanship that goes along with being a warrior on the mat. On Episode 53 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we'll get the sportsmanship perspectives from two Olympi ...…

Joe Heskett was a four-time NCAA Division I All-American and a 2002 NCAA champion at Iowa State University under coach Bobby Douglas. In 2007, Heskett was on the path to the Olympics after finishing fifth in the World at the 2007 World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Five days later his life changed. On Episode 52 of the World Wrestling Reso ...…

Dan Gable had the opportunity to coach the late Dave Schultz on World and Olympic teams. On Episode 51 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, Gable explains when he first heard about some teenager from California entering the Tblisi tournament and what happened next. Gable recounts why he was a better fit at Oklahoma with coach Stan Abel at t ...…

Kyle Klingman is the Director the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo, Iowa. On Episode 50 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we'll talk with Kyle about the events coming up the weekend of October 27-30 with an artifact sale going on in conjunction with the USA Wrestling Preseason Nationals. Klingman talks about t ...…

Lee Kemp is one of the finest wrestlers the world has ever known. A three-time NCAA Division I champion at Wisconsin and a four-time finalist, Kemp won three World championships and four World medals. Kemp has a new book called Winning Gold: Success Secrets of a World Champion available at

In a long discussion about USA Wrestling's summer success, Executive Director Rich Bender joins the World Wrestling Resource Podcast for Episode 48. In 30 years with the company, Bender has moved up from intern to Events Director to Executive Director and has been a leader not just domestically, but within international wrestling. Bender will t ...…

Dan Gable will again join the World Wrestling Resource Podcast for Episode 47 as he and host Jason Bryant recap the summer that was for USA Wrestling. Gable discusses Thomas Gilman's rise to silver from his Iowa perspective, as well as talk about the performances of Jordan Burroughs and Kyle Snyder on their men's freestyle world championships. ...…

Wrestling legend Dan Gable will again join host Jason Bryant on Episode 46 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast to talk about the upcoming United World Wrestling Senior World Wrestling Championships in Paris. Among topics discussed: the push for women's wrestling to be an emerging sport, the relevance and importance of Regional Training Cent ...…

Wrestling legend Dan Gable will join host Jason Bryant and University of Dubuque head wrestling coach Jon McGovern on Episode 45 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast to talk about the upcoming rule changes in NCAA wrestling for the 2017-18 season. Most seem to be universally accepted, although there are a few that seem to have some degree of ...…

Ann Stohr was a pole vaulter in Germany and had aspirations of making World and Olympic teams for her native country. Injuries derailed her athletic career and she settled into the world of sports marketing. On Episode 44 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we'll talk with Stohr, who is currently the Marketing and Communications Coordinato ...…

Episode 43 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast visits with Lee Roy Smith, the Executive Director of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame & Museum in Stillwater, Oklahoma. We'll talk with Smith about how the Hall of Fame came to be, how he followed Myron Roderick into the role as Executive Director, how the organization is structured and the ...…

World Wrestling Resource co-founder Jon McGovern talks with host Jason Bryant about a number of international topics on Episode 42 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast. McGovern is recently returning from a trip to Canada where his Dubuque squad trained in a cultural exchange with Doug Cox's Guelph wrestling program. We then turn the tables ...…

Two-time Olympian Doug Cox will join Episode 41 of the World Wrestling Resource. Cox is currently the head coach at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He has been a longtime competitor and coach in both Greco-Roman and freestyle and will be hosting coach Jon McGovern's University of Dubuque team in May during a cultural exchange trip. ...…

Division I All-American and former Slippery Rock wrestling coach Jim Harshaw has done a litany of things in his personal and professional career in and around coaching and marketing. Working in the athletic fundraising world with his alma mater, the University of Virginia, Harshaw has to make connections all the time to promote athletics, not j ...…

Episode 39 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast visits with the Doctor of Wrestling, Dr. Dave Curby. Since 2007, Curby has been the leader of a group called the International Network of Wrestling Researchers. The intent after its foundation was to connect people who have like-minded research ideas and projects surrounding wrestling. Dr. Curb ...…

Episode 38 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast features a pair of U.S. National Team coaches as Matt Lindland and Terry Steiner return to the show. Coach Steiner was finishing up a practice in Colorado Springs as he readies Sarah Hildebrandt and Alli Ragan for the non-Olympic World Championships in Budapest on Dec. 10-11, while Lindland was ...…

Gene Zannetti of Wrestling Mindset returns to the World Wrestling Resource Podcast to talk about the redflags that can lead to mindset mistakes in wrestling. One of the co-founders of WrestlingMindset.com, Zannetti wrestled at the University of Pennsylvania and he and his brothers and the rest of the team have created the only wrestling-specifi ...…

Nearly 20 years ago, the sport of college wrestling was rocked by deaths of three college athletes as they tried to cut weight. Billy Saylor, Joe LaRosa and Jeff Reese all died after massive dehydration complicated by the use of legal, yet mostly untested supplements. The result was sweeping change from the NCAA, including moving dual meet weig ...…

World champion Dennis Hall and host Jason Bryant go at it by themselves on Episode 35 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast. This episode talks about the foundations of the World Wrestling Resource and the relationship shared between Hall, Terry Brands and Jon McGovern. Hall will then go into the topics relevant to youth wrestling with athlet ...…

World champions Dennis Hall and Terry Brands return to the World Wrestling Resource Podcast with Episode 34 as the two tackle the Cadet and Junior World Championships, rule changes and international discipline. We first tackle the new rule change handed down by United World Wrestling that eliminates forced par terre in Greco-Roman. Dennis Hall ...…

With the Olympic championships won by Kyle Snyder and Helen Maroulis, there is no shortage of people who helped them attain those goals. Two of those individuals will join us today on Episode 33 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast -- Ohio State head wrestling coach Tom Ryan and Sunkist Kids women's coach and River Falls (Wis.) High School c ...…

With the American contingent back from Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic Games, the World Wrestling Resource Podcast fires back up with some thoughts from the Games with Dennis Hall and Terry Brands. Both Hall and Brands had athletes competing in Rio and both are past U.S. Olympians. What do they say to their athletes coming home and how do t ...…

The annual NWCA Convention and CEO Leadership Academy came to a close in Fort Lauderdale, Florida earlier this month. With a recap of the convention and some of the happenings that went on, we'll talk with NWCA Executive Director Mike Moyer. Moyer will be joined by Division III Coaches Association President and co-founder of the World Wrestling ...…

Episode 30 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast is back with another discussion with world champions Dennis Hall and Terry Brands about the relevant topics in wrestling. With the Olympic Games approximately 50 days from kicking off in Rio, we'll discuss the training cycles of the athletes heading into Rio, the recent hire of Bill Zadick as t ...…

Episode 29 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast features former USA Wrestling National Teams Director Mitch Hull and regular hosts Jason Bryant and Dennis Hall. Hull spent over 20 years at USA Wrestling and he'll give his insight on the recent hiring of Bill Zadick as the U.S. National Freestyle Coach and what processes are in place when a n ...…

On Episode 28 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we're joined by legendary wrestling coach Dan Gable and four-time All-American and 1999 U.S. World Team member Eric Akin. Joining host Jason Bryant is the World Wrestling Resource's own Terry Brands. We'll talk with the group about the factions within wrestling and whether or not there is a ...…

Episode 27 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast visits with 1972 Olympic champion and two-time Olympic medalist Ben Peterson. Peterson has been renowned as a clinician and speaker and coach for decades. He's recently released a book, Road To Gold, where he chronicles his journey to the gold medal in 1972. Peterson shares stories about Bill F ...…

Episode 26 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast breaks down the Olympic Trials with Jon McGovern, Dennis Hall and Terry Brands. Hall coached Ben Provisor to his second straight Olympic team in Greco-Roman, while Brands coached the Hawkeye Wrestling Club members and 57kg Olympian Daniel Dennis. We break down the preparation, the battles withi ...…

The 2016 U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team Trials are ready to roll in Iowa City on April 9-10. On Episode 25 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, host Jason Bryant will be joined by U.S. National Team coaches Matt Lindland and Terry Steiner and WWR co-founder Dennis Hall. There's still work to be done for some of the weight classes that still ne ...…

On Episode 24 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we'll take the world of coaching and parenting to the next level. Joining WWR staffer Dennis Hall will be Ohio State head wrestling coach Tom Ryan and Graham High School (Ohio) head coach Jeff Jordan. Hall has three sons who wrestle, as does coach Jordan, who also has two other nephews who ...…

The World Wrestling Resource Podcast returns with Episode 23 where the discussion will center around the recent Flowrestling release of Terry, a feature-length documentary on Iowa assistant coach and World champion Terry Brands. Brands will join host Jason Bryant and World Wrestling Resource's Jon McGovern and Dennis Hall for a conversation abo ...…

Olympian Andy Hrovat and renowned high school wrestling coach Mike Powell address distractions on Episode 22 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast with host Jason Bryant. Hrovat was a three-time All-American at Michigan while Powell was an All-American as a freshman at Indiana. Hrovat avoided negative distractions that often follow college li ...…

On Episode 21 of the World Wrestling Resource, we are again rejoined by Gene Zannetti of Wrestling Mindset and welcome Dr. Coyte Cooper of Elite Level Sports Marketing and the author of the book Impressions: The Power of Personal Branding in Living an Extraordinary Life. Cooper and Zannetti will join host Jason Bryant and World Champion Dennis ...…

Episode 20 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast talks with three individuals who know a little something about the World Wrestling Championships. World Wrestling Resource co-founders Terry Brands and Dennis Hall will break down their thoughts on the performances at the World Championships in Las Vegas in men's freestyle and Greco-Roman, whil ...…

The United World Wrestling Championships are coming to Las Vegas and on Episode 19 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we'll talk Team USA with Women's freestyle coach Terry Steiner and Greco-Roman coach Matt Lindland.But before we get to the team talk with our coaches, Dr. David Curby, the Director of the International Network of Wrestlin ...…

Historically, wrestling has been looked at from the outside world as a society of people who starve themselves and put themselves through agony just to compete. Wrestlers know it's more than that. Wrestlers also know proper weight management is based on sound nutrition. They know what to do and what not to do. On Episode 18 of the World Wrestli ...…