HawkAlum2002

Bad News certainly never mentioned any incident in his interviews or on his website back before his passing, so not sure where that story would be coming from.

I don't think he could've made it past more than a couple guys tops before getting turned. Still impressive though for his age.

That was Andre the Giant that Bad News supposedly confronted. Bad News and Hulk were always friends, that's why Bad News went to the WWF later. And Hulk and Linda had already been separated for almost a year by the time the tape happened, that's the reason Bubba and his wife set it up to begin with to try and make him feel better. They were already split before they even taped the last season of their reality show, only appearing together enough to film it when she came back from California to Florida.

I think age is also a factor. The top D1 guys tend to stick around freestyle longer, maybe a year or two longer then they should because they hold on to that Olympic/World dream. By the time they jump into MMA, it would naturally be more difficult because you missed out on the training while still focused on your other goal. I saw Chael Sonnen even talking about Gable Steveson's MMA chatter and recognizing at 24, he's actually near the end where he need to either start training now or it isn't going to happen successfully if the clock keeps ticking. A lot of the wrestlers that are doing well, D2, D3 guys, etc, didn't stick around freestyle after college, they jumped into the next venture. So it's the younger wrestlers without the college accolades doing well, and the older guys, who were actually better on the mat, often not living up to the hype. If the top guys jumped right in after college, I think they'd do the as well or better than the D2, D3, but they just have other goals at that age.

Probably a Savannah Bananas game, a baseball version of the Globetrotters. They've become a huge deal the past couple years, breaking attendance records all over the place.

Austin DeSanto beat Gross, RBY x2, Suriano, and now Lovett x2 and Byrd x4. He also beat Gomez, Mueller, and Micic (even if it's not the most memorable of their meetings) that were finalists but lost.