Carpet Fighting: A Freestyle Wrestling World Cup Preview

In which Coach Mike Riordan breaks his legendary retirement to have a conversation about the Wrestling World Cup with me.

Coach Mike: Spey and I have teamed up to discuss some Olympic wrestling topics, combining our powers in a team of roughly the same magnitude as the WWF's Superpowers, only in this case I am the analogue for both Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, and he is Miss Elisabeth.

The World Cup of Freestyle Wrestling is coming this weekend to Las Angeles, and somebody needs to talk about it. After all, this event is arguably the most viewer friendly international wrestling tournament of the year.

While the 8 team field is still too small, and a quadrennial rather than annual format might…