Ahead of his expected return at UFC 314 in Miami, unbeaten prospect, Bo Nickal has reflected on the time he wrestled against ...

He was arrested in 2015 and charged with murder following a group brawl. A second wrestler is set to be executed by Iran only months after they hanged another champion competitor, Navid Afkari ...

Iran’s Greco-Roman wrestling team clinched first place at the Zagreb Open, earning two gold, three silver, and one bronze ...

(JTA) — An Iranian wrestler who intentionally lost at an international competition to avoid facing an Israeli opponent was suspended from competition for six months by the world wrestling body.

The World Freestyle Wrestling Club Cup will be held on February 20-21 in ... have been invited to participate in the tournament, local Iranian media said Saturday.

The short is inspired by the tragic story of Navid Afkari, an Iranian wrestler wrongly executed in 2020 on the alleged charges of murdering an Iranian guard. Afkari maintained his innocence and ...

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The Iranian NOC President, Dr. Seye Reza Salehi Amiri, along with Dr. Seyed Hamid Sajjadi, the Minister of Sports and Youth have been in Lausanne, Switzerland this week meeting with several ...

He beat Uzbekistan's Gulomjon Abdullaev 11-1 and then used effective countermoves to beat Reza Altrinagharchi, repeatedly catching the Iranian wrestler's legs and forcing him down for a 9-1 decision.

United World Wrestling (UWW) has reacted to Iran’s travel ban on American wrestlers to the Freestyle World Cup in response to President Donald Trump's executive order forbidding visas for ...

however Iran pulled out of the match after Iran Wrestling Federation president Ali Reza Dabir said six members of the proposed 35-person Iranian delegation did not receive visas from the U.S ...