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Donald Trump’s friendship with Dana White may have its roots back in 2001 when the then real estate magnate hosted the first two events of the newly Zuffa acquired Ultimate Fighting Championships at his Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. But, however close that relationship may have been, there’s no denying that it became much more public during Trump’s rise to victory during the 2016 presidential election and the four years that followed.
Trump was cageside for UFC 244, the promotion’s 500th event, back in 2019 where Jorge Masvidal defeated Nate Diaz for the newly minted ‘BMF’ belt. And by the time the 2020 Republican National Convention rolled around, Dana White had a prominent speaking position at the event, having been one of the major US sports commissioners that Trump turned to during the COVID-19 pandemic to push for the re-start of sporting events.
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On nights when I have trouble sleeping, instead of counting sheep, I count ways of choking people: the cross-collar choke, the triangle choke, the inverted triangle, the wrong side triangle, the Ezekiel, the gi-zekiel, the Darce, the anaconda. The list is long, with the setups for them uncountable, and strangles are only one of the dozens of submission holds I practice between four and six times a week at BJJ Fit, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu school in Badalona, Spain.
Jiu-jitsu is hard to write about, principally because it is hard to say what it is. When I first heard of it in the mid-1990s, thanks to Royce Gracie’s groundbreaking victories in the early Ultimate Fighting Championships, I believed the origin myth still common in the thousands of gyms around the world where a photo of his father, Grand Master Helio Gracie, presides over the mats: In the early 20th century, a famed Japanese jiu-jitsu fighter, Mitsuyo Maeda (also known as Count Koma), arrived in the B
MARK HENRY, TRISH STRATUS, KEN SHAMROCK AND MORE NAMED TO 2021 THESZ/TRAGOS PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME CLASS
By Mike Johnson on 2020-12-31 12:03:00
The following press release was issued:
Tragos/Thesz Hall of Fame announces 2021 induction class
WATERLOO, Iowa - The National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum announced on December 31, 2020 that it has finalized the Class of 2021 for the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame induction weekend, which will be held on July 15-17.
The Class of 2021 is Adnan Al-Kassie (Living Inductee), Don Kernodle (Living Inductee), Earl Wampler (Posthumous Inductee), Trish Stratus (Lou Thesz World Heavyweight Championship Award), Mark Henry (Frank Gotch Award), and Ken Shamrock (George Tragos Award). The Gordon Solie Award will be presented for the first time in 2021. The recipient of the Jim Melby Award will be announced in the upcoming weeks.
Mark Henry & Trish Stratus Part Of Pro Wrestling Hall Of Fame Finalizes 2021 Class
Tragos/Thesz Hall of Fame announces 2021 induction class );
WATERLOO, Iowa – The National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum announced on December 31, 2020 that it has finalized the Class of 2021 for the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame induction weekend, which will be held on July 15-17.
The Class of 2021 is Adnan Al-Kassie (Living Inductee), Don Kernodle (Living Inductee), Earl Wampler (Posthumous Inductee), Trish Stratus (Lou Thesz World Heavyweight Championship Award), Mark Henry (Frank Gotch Award), and Ken Shamrock (George Tragos Award). The Gordon Solie Award will be presented for the first time in 2021. The recipient of the Jim Melby Award will be announced in the upcoming weeks.