WrestlingRecords.com Posted March 3 Posted March 3 1. Aaron Brooks With an under hook coming from the Holy Spirit, Brooks gets the #1 spot. His anti Yazdani Islam comments almost started a Holy War. 1x Olympic Bronze. 25-8 senior level wrestling record with a 76% win rate. Aaron Brooks' Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/aaron-brooks/ 2. Bo Bassett Credits Kyle Snyder with inviting him to his first bible study. U20 World Bronze. He's early in his senior level freestyle career, but already has a win over Anthony Ashnault at the 2024 Last Chance OTT. Bo Bassett's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/bo-bassett/ 3. David Carr Repped a '100% Jesus' headband on his way to 2 NCAA titles. Picking up steam on the senior circuit with wins over Alex Dieringer and Levi Haines to take 3rd at the 2024 World Team Trials. 31-12 senior level wrestling record with a 72% win rate. David Carr's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/david-carr/ 4. Kyle Snyder I can't think of any Christian with a more impressive resume. 1x Olympic Champ, 1x Olympic Silver, 3x World Champ, 2x World Silver, 2x World Bronze. He has 216 senior level wins, and has beaten 50 World/Olympic medalists in his career. Kyle Snyder's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/kyle-snyder/ 5. Greg Kerkvliet Probably the 2nd most outspoken guy on the Penn State team. He's also pretty early in his senior level career, but he has a 3rd place finish at senior nationals, and a 4th place finish at the Olympic Trials. 9-5 senior level wrestling record with a 64% win rate. Greg Kerkvliet's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/greg-kerkvliet/ Are these the top 5 Christians in US wrestling history?
Interviewed_at_Weehawken Posted March 3 Posted March 3 On 3/3/2025 at 7:02 PM, WrestlingRecords.com said: 1. Aaron Brooks With an under hook coming from the Holy Spirit, Brooks gets the #1 spot. His anti Yazdani Islam comments almost started a Holy War. 1x Olympic Bronze. 25-8 senior level wrestling record with a 76% win rate. Aaron Brooks' Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/aaron-brooks/ 2. Bo Bassett Credits Kyle Snyder with inviting him to his first bible study. U20 World Bronze. He's early in his senior level freestyle career, but already has a win over Anthony Ashnault at the 2024 Last Chance OTT. Bo Bassett's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/bo-bassett/ 3. David Carr Repped a '100% Jesus' headband on his way to 2 NCAA titles. Picking up steam on the senior circuit with wins over Alex Dieringer and Levi Haines to take 3rd at the 2024 World Team Trials. 31-12 senior level wrestling record with a 72% win rate. David Carr's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/david-carr/ 4. Kyle Snyder I can't think of any Christian with a more impressive resume. 1x Olympic Champ, 1x Olympic Silver, 3x World Champ, 2x World Silver, 2x World Bronze. He has 216 senior level wins, and has beaten 50 World/Olympic medalists in his career. Kyle Snyder's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/kyle-snyder/ 5. Greg Kerkvliet Probably the 2nd most outspoken guy on the Penn State team. He's also pretty early in his senior level career, but he has a 3rd place finish at senior nationals, and a 4th place finish at the Olympic Trials. 9-5 senior level wrestling record with a 64% win rate. Greg Kerkvliet's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/greg-kerkvliet/ Are these the top 5 Christians in US wrestling history? Expand Peterson brothers. Nate Carr. Jim Gruenwald. Eric Voelker. Some Olympic medalists on there. Most have become preachers/ministers/pastors.
WrestlingRecords.com Posted March 3 Author Posted March 3 On 3/3/2025 at 7:08 PM, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said: Peterson brothers. Nate Carr. Jim Gruenwald. Eric Voelker. Some Olympic medalists on there. Most have become preachers/ministers/pastors. Expand Ok I didn't realize that. Then yea a lot of those guys are making this team.
Gene Mills Fan Posted March 3 Posted March 3 On January 6th, 2020 Jordan and his wife Lauren welcomed there third child, a little girl, Rise Ivory Burroughs. Jordan is a christian who enjoys reading and spending time with his family. 1
SocraTease Posted March 3 Posted March 3 I bet they couldn't beat the All Allah (or Mohammed) Team when you include Dagestan and Iran. I'm personally rooting for the All Atheist, Agnostic or Buddhist Teams ... though they aren't as noisy and vocal about their views as the rah rah religious wrestlers. 1 2 1
WrestlingRecords.com Posted March 3 Author Posted March 3 On 3/3/2025 at 7:30 PM, SocraTease said: I bet they couldn't beat the All Allah (or Mohammed) Team when you include Dagestan and Iran. I'm personally rooting for the All Atheist, Agnostic or Buddhist Teams ... though they aren't as noisy and vocal about their views as the rah rah religious wrestlers. Expand The All Allah/Mohammed team would be insanely stacked. I think they probably dominate this hypothetical dual.
PortaJohn Posted March 3 Posted March 3 On 3/3/2025 at 7:30 PM, SocraTease said: I bet they couldn't beat the All Allah (or Mohammed) Team when you include Dagestan and Iran. I'm personally rooting for the All Atheist, Agnostic or Buddhist Teams ... though they aren't as noisy and vocal about their views as the rah rah religious wrestlers. Expand If I'm picking an all time fantasy team I'm taking all the zealots. My atheist, agnostic, and buddhist buddies are rational enough to understand why 2 I Don't Agree With What I Posted
Tripnsweep Posted March 3 Posted March 3 I wish I could remember who it was, but they wrestled seniors like 25 years ago and they had a blog about their wrestling stuff. Anyway they had an entry about losing to Ray Brinzer and there was a good solid paragraph about how Brinzer wasn't godly enough and he had some kind of dark cloud or something around him that didn't let the power of Jesus prevail against him or something. It was downright wacky. I really wish I could remember who it was. 1
BigRedFan Posted March 3 Posted March 3 For the All-Jewish team, you got Meyer Shapiro, Jonathon Loew, and half a dozen Finesilvers. I got nothing beyond that. 1
MPhillips Posted March 3 Posted March 3 On 3/3/2025 at 8:55 PM, BigRedFan said: For the All-Jewish team, you got Meyer Shapiro, Jonathon Loew, and half a dozen Finesilvers. I got nothing beyond that. Expand You have Alan Fried and then the rest. .
Hammerlock3 Posted March 3 Posted March 3 We need a topic where we discuss which members of team jesus are faking it... 1 2 1 "Half measures are a coward's form of insanity."
Interviewed_at_Weehawken Posted March 4 Posted March 4 On 3/3/2025 at 8:55 PM, BigRedFan said: For the All-Jewish team, you got Meyer Shapiro, Jonathon Loew, and half a dozen Finesilvers. I got nothing beyond that. Expand Fried. Jeff Blatnick, Damion Hahn. Lynsey Durlacher? I'm sure there's plenty more.
pokemonster Posted March 4 Posted March 4 On 3/3/2025 at 9:13 PM, MPhillips said: You have Alan Fried and then the rest. Expand Beat me to it. Ironically he went to St. Edward's catholic high school. 1
pokemonster Posted March 4 Posted March 4 Which carries more weight, their holiness / likelihood of going to heaven or their wrestling record. Also, didn't realize David Carr beat Dieringer? Impressive
Tripnsweep Posted March 4 Posted March 4 On 3/4/2025 at 12:51 AM, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said: Fried. Jeff Blatnick, Damion Hahn. Lynsey Durlacher? I'm sure there's plenty more. Expand Ophir Bernstein who wrestled for Brown and was a junior world silver medalist for Israel.
WrestlingRecords.com Posted March 4 Author Posted March 4 On 3/4/2025 at 4:19 AM, pokemonster said: Which carries more weight, their holiness / likelihood of going to heaven or their wrestling record. Also, didn't realize David Carr beat Dieringer? Impressive Expand Good question
MPhillips Posted March 4 Posted March 4 On 3/4/2025 at 4:18 AM, pokemonster said: Beat me to it. Ironically he went to St. Edward's catholic high school. Expand He went to St. Edward. Sorry. I know that wasn't the onus of the comment. It's like state to me... 1 .
BuckyBadger Posted March 5 Posted March 5 On 3/4/2025 at 4:27 AM, Tripnsweep said: Ophir Bernstein who wrestled for Brown and was a junior world silver medalist for Israel. Expand Cory Cooperman, Scott Schatzman, David Hirsh, Bill Hyman are a few others. Not sure about Eric Tannenbaum
wrestle87 Posted March 5 Posted March 5 “Praise be to Jesus” is going to be a really popular phrase in the coming decade, you heard it here first. #1 all jesus team is cael. He’s the great helmsman who introduced the modern age of the best wrestlers to the positive impacts of religion on sports-psychology. Tom Ryan also doesn’t get enough credit for being an early mover in the golden age of wrestling bible belt, which in my opinion just ended recently.
Gene Mills Fan Posted March 5 Posted March 5 I think I've heard a lot of praise from maybe above 50% of the national champions immediate off mat interviews, so maybe some spirituality can increase your inner drive and keep some demons away. Not a bad thing!! If you can't beat'em; join'em
Interviewed_at_Weehawken Posted March 5 Posted March 5 On 3/5/2025 at 2:24 AM, BuckyBadger said: Cory Cooperman, Scott Schatzman, David Hirsh, Bill Hyman are a few others. Not sure about Eric Tannenbaum Expand Of course! Can't believe I forgot Dr. Hirsch DDS MD. I believe Dr. Tannenbaum is also of the Jewish faith, despite his surname meaning "Christmas Tree."
BigRedFan Posted March 5 Posted March 5 On 3/5/2025 at 12:50 PM, Gene Mills Fan said: I think I've heard a lot of praise from maybe above 50% of the national champions immediate off mat interviews, so maybe some spirituality can increase your inner drive and keep some demons away. Not a bad thing!! If you can't beat'em; join'em Expand Causation and correlation and all that, you know.
11986 Posted March 5 Posted March 5 the untimely passing of Saitiev made me think of Brandon Slay, who deserves mention for the all Jesus team. 1
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