President of USA Wrestling James Ravannack has been an asset to the sport of wrestling for over 20 years. His dedication to promoting, marketing, and growing the sport is being recognized at the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame Banquet in August. We need more individuals like Ravannack to help wrestling thrive! James Ravannack to receive Jimmy Collins Special […]

Honoring the 1980 United States Olympic Wrestling Team When: Friday, September 11th 2015, 4-6 PM Where: Gold Coast Hotel & Casino – Las Vegas Produced By: The International Fraternity of Wrestlers & The National Registry 4 Wrestling Sponsored By: Basch Solutions Guest Speakers: Tom & Jerry Caraccioli, Authors of “Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games” Master of […]

Our weekly spotlight series is dedicated to putting focus on a formerly competitive wrestler and his/her achievements outside of wrestling. The main focus is what they have done with the hard work, determination and perseverance that wrestling brought out within them. This week’s spotlight wrestler is CNN sports anchor and correspondent Coy Wire Know someone who should be featured? Nominate […]

One Jordan has a green jacket. The other has a gold medal. One Jordan is nearly a household name. The other most high school athletes competing in his sport are hard pressed to recognize him. Both are highly skilled athletes. Both are charismatic, well-spoken, and well-liked by their peers. The major difference is one competes in a sport which has […]

The International Fraternity of Wrestlers and sister organization The National Registry for Wrestling applaud the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) for posthumously inducting Jeff Blatnick into its Hall of Fame on July 11, 2015. The above video shows segments that honor Jeff for his contributions. Among many things, the wrestling community remembers Blatnick for his gold medal at the 1984 Olympics. […]

One of the goals the International Fraternity of Wrestlers (IFW) set when the website was launched on January 30th 2015 — just a little under 6 months ago — was to reach 1 million page views and 50,000 unique visitors. The website statistics below demonstrate that the IFW is over 75% of the way towards reaching the page views milestone […]

The next guest on America’s Coach Bobby Douglas Wrestling Radio show is Larry Nugent. Larry was a 2X State Wrestling Champion in high school and a 2X Olympic Wrestling Team Alternate, among many other accolades. Listen Live at http://radio.ucfsc.org/ on Monday, July 13th at 8 PM ET or to the replay on Saturday, July 18th at 5 PM ET. Larry […]