Next Level Wrestling

05/23/2026

I don’t know who wrote this it couldn’t have been me.

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05/10/2026

04/01/2026

It doesn’t get much better than this.

01/23/2026

We always begin where we are.

12/05/2025

Be the first believer! Don't wait for someone's permission to be great.

Alexis Rodriguez 220lbs about to take the floor at Chicago City Championships

11/06/2025

06/26/2025

Nobody tells you this when you start wrestling…

They don’t tell you how hard it’s going to get.

They don’t tell you about the early mornings.
The workouts that break you down and the practices that leave you questioning if you really want this.

They don’t tell you about the weekends you’ll spend in a gym while your friends are out living “normal” lives.
Or how holidays start to feel more like weigh-in days than celebrations.

They don’t tell you what it feels like to step on the scale, dehydrated and drained, praying you made weight only to still have to go out and wrestle hours later.

They don’t tell you how lonely it gets.
How brutal this sport is on your body, your mind, your spirit.

But they also don’t tell you what it gives you.

They don’t tell you how wrestling teaches you to suffer with purpose.
How it forges discipline in places you didn’t even know were weak.
How it trains your mind to keep showing up.. especially on the days you don’t feel like it.

They don’t tell you that through the pain, the pressure, the heartbreak…
You will find a version of yourself you didn’t even know existed.
Stronger. Sharper. Hungrier.

They don’t tell you that one day you’ll look back and realize that everything you went through. the early mornings, the cuts, the setbacks.
wasn’t just about wrestling.

It was about becoming the kind of person who doesn’t quit.
The kind of person who keeps going when it’s hard, when it hurts, when no one’s watching.
The kind of person who can walk into any storm and not flinch.

That’s what this sport gives you. if you let it.
Not everyone makes it.
But if you stick with it, wrestling will shape you into the kind of person who can handle anything.

And that…
That’s worth every drop of sweat, every loss, every ounce of doubt.

Because wrestling doesn’t just build athletes.
It builds warriors.

06/17/2025

On This Day in Wrestling History - The WWF released ‘Royal Rumble’ for the Super Nintendo 32 years ago today (6/9/93)

03/02/2025