Dana talks about kimbo

For once i agree with the turd. Right now UFC is the big leagues. Kimbo wouldnt stand much chance against any of the names there.

 

Yes, Gannon went into the UFC and got his ass DESTROYED by an old wrestling buddy of mine. (Branden lives about 15 minutes from my house) Hinkle was a very good wrestler in a college, and had a pretty good punch. He has had so-so success in MMA... but he absolutely brutalized Gannon.

 

Hinkle never amounted to anything in MMA. He was a good journeyman of sorts but had some brutal loss`s. Monson`s north south choke on him was quite vicious as well as his loss to Jason Lambert. As for the Gannon fight that was merely UFC press built off the back of his street fight with Kimbo.

 

http://www.almostkilled.com/videos/Fight_Videos/Sean_Gannon_Vs_Brandon_Lee_Hinkle

Hinkle vs Gannon

 

Seen it already. It was an annihilation. Gannon was only a cop anyway with balls.

 

Hinkle never amounted to anything in the UFC... but he has had some success in MMA in general. Outside of the win over Gannon, he has wins over Jorge Rivera, Travis Fulton, and about 6 months ago he beat Roman Zentsov.. Fedor's training Partner. Back in the day he had a real close fight with Maurice Smith. He isn't some slouch... he is just pretty inconsistent as he is a little floaty in the head.

 

Also... Hinkle never belonged at heavyweight. The UFC wanted him to fight there, and he couldn't perform at that weight, which is why it never worked out. Just seems like the good offers that he gets to fight are always at heavyweight, so he takes them.

 

Did he wrestle at Weirton in highschool?

Also who would you say is the Valley's most accomplished wrestler excluding the obvious answer Bobby Douglas, when considering highschool and college?

 

This again? I never knew him from High School, he is a good bit older than me. He wrestled for West Liberty in College. I used to go up to West Liberty and train with a lot of those guys, as I had some older people from my school who wrestled there, and guys like Mark Coleman and Nick Nutter used to come down to prepare for MMA events on occasion.

 

no thoughts on the second part of my question?

 

I never asked if you knew him in highschool, I thought you might have known where an "old wrestling buddy" went to highschool. atsch

 

The second part of the question wasn't there when I first replied.

Well, pretty hard to answer. A lot of wrestlers from the Ohio Valley have branched off into different areas of wrestling and had success in college, Military and/or the freestyle/Greco world after their successful high school careers. Can't rattle off any national Champs that come to mind... so it would be hard to project who was better out of the rest. Dunyasha "Tubbo" Yetts would come to mind. There are others, but I don't always follow every Valley kid throughout his wrestling career unless I know them well. I am sure there are some old heads who did well at that level also... but outside of Douglas and a few others that I know, I never really researched past accomplishments of guys who came before me either.

Yetts comes to mind because when he was in College, he taught me this sweet move, and I used to clean house with it. I have a pic of me hitting it on some kid at OVAC's in my photobucket, if photobucket comes back online I will post it for you to see. I think that I still have it on here from when I posted some pics in that thread about "High School accomplishments" that got me in so much trouble.

I would say that the two best wrestlers that I personally know, who were closer to my age would be Jeremy Hunter, and Tommy Rowlands. Neither of them were from the Valley though. Rowlands is from Columbus, and Hunter lived about 20 minutes away in Claysville PA.

 

I wrestled Yetts at a summer tournament at 140 pounds.

 

Been looking for a copy of that for a while, I like to try and keep track of all the current and former hammer house guys. Was nice to see him get a win over a biggish name in Zenstov