Wrestling is the world's oldest sport. In Arkansas, it's the newest.
Follow the University of Arkansas at Little Rock as it starts up a brand new sport in a place that hasn't seen major college wrestling in half a century. Rocked up follows the fledgling wrestling program as it begins from scratch with a start date of November 2019.
Produced by the Mat Talk Podcast Network.
Aug 11, 2019
A Legend Comes to Town
In the lore of college sports, there's always the aura of having
done something no one else had ever done. In 1994, a wrestler from
Oklahoma State University named Pat Smith became the first wrestler
in NCAA Division I wrestling history to win four straight national
championships.
Years later, Smith would be talked into moving to Arkansas and
helping create one of the largest grassroots wrestling movements
the sport had ever seen. On Episode 4 of Rocked Up, we'll meet Pat
Smith and discover how one of the legends of wrestling found
himself in a state with zero wrestling and his involvement in
helping build the high school and summer wrestling circuits. We'll
also take a look back at 2009 and the first Arkansas team to go to
Fargo.
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time at USA Wrestling by clicking
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