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Mat Awareness
by Adam Gusky
The Wrestling Podcast Hosted by Adam Gusky | Welcome! The purpose of this podcast is simple. I try to bring on unique guests to provide you with many different perspectives in wrestling, from wrestlers, coaches, wrestling business owners, and more. I try to do this in the most entertaining way possible. Thanks, for checking it out, and I hope you enjoy the show!
Episodes
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Ep. 32: John Broughton | Trilla Fight Club
In this episode of the pod we talk Olympic Trials and Triller Fight Club. There's even a guest appearance on this one!
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Ep. 31: Is This The End?
Is this the end of the podcast?
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Ep. 30: Tristan Moran | Talking Wrestling, Cooking, and Video Games
Tristan Moran was a 2X State Champ in high school and went on to have a very successful career for the Wisconsin Badgers. He's not only a really good wrestler, but he takes pride in his cooking abilities and consider's himself the best gamer in wrestling. It was fun diving into those topics.…
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Ep. 29: Trent Hillger | 2X All American Wisconsin Badger Heavyweight Wrestler
Trent Hillger is a 2X All American wrestler for the Wisconsin Badgers and he's only a junior. He has a big year coming up in a weight class filled with many different styles of wrestlers. Trent was also a 3X State Champ for Lake Fenton high school. In this episode we cover the Badger preseason…
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Ep. 28: Anthony Echemendia | Life In Cuba, The Journey To The United States, Ohio State Wrestling
In 2019, the name Anthony Echemendia became a household name in the wrestling world. That year, he went undefeated as a senior and won a state championship, and then at Fargo won freestyle AND greco national titles. The reason no one knew about him until then is because he came from Cuba. In this...
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Ep. 27: Anthony Ashnault | Transitioning To College Wrestling, Mobbin' Media, and More
Anthony Ashnault was an UNDEFEATED 4X State Champ in the state of New Jersey as well as a National Champ for Rutgers. Tune in to hear a deep conversation about transitioning from high school to college, hear about Mobbin Media on Rokfin, and a cuppa other fun topics. It was a pleasure talking to...
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Ep. 26: Myles Amine | Competing at the World Championships, and Going Into Senior Year as a 3X All American
Myles Amine of the University of Michigan is a 3X All American and took 5th at the World Championships in 2019 in Kazakhstan for his family's home country of San Marino. On this show we talked about competing at the world championships, some differences he noticed during his redshirt year while...
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Ep. 25: Jack Medley | Running Marathons For Fun, and Being a Successful Division 1 Wrestler On the Side
Jack Medley wrestles 125 pounds for the University of Michigan. Not only is he a very good wrestler, but he's spent a lot of his time running throughout the quarantine, so it was fun to hear from him about how he ended up doing not one but TWO marathons during the quarantine. On this episode we…
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Ep. 24: Tyler Berger | Wrestling Underground, Walking 100 Miles Straight, and a Message For Anthony Ashnault
Tyler Berger is coming off an awesome victory over another great wrestler, Joey McKenna. He tells us his thoughts on the Wrestling Underground event and what it was like getting into the cage to wrestle. We also get into his tweet about Jason Nolf (the Penn State Wrestling legend), why he did it,...
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Ep. 23: Gary Traub | A Quick Fill Up At the Gas Station with Covelli Center Legend Gas Tank Gary
Getting gas is a boring thing that everyone that drives a car has to do, so there's no one better to fill up with than the Covelli Center LEGEND himself Gary Traub AKA Gas Tank Gary. He's the Blue Collar Legend, The People's Champ, America's Heavyweight, whatever you want to call him. He trained...
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Ep. 22: Dave Malecek | Legendary Stories with Legends Including Dave Schultz, Mark Schwab, John Oostendorp, and Many More
Dave Malecek was a 2X State Champ at Osage High School, an All American at UNI, and is currently the head wrestling coach at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. During the recording of this episode, I heard some of the greatest wrestling stories of all time including so many legends like…
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Ep. 21: Ross Needham | 2X All American and Current Head Assistant Coach at UW-La Crosse
Ross Needham was a 2X All American and 4X Academic All American for the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He now serves as the Head Assistant coach at UW-La Crosse. He's quite a personable guy, and has a just as interesting wrestling career as you'll find out in the show. We go pretty in depth...
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Ep. 20: Cole Schrupp | Legendary Videographer for the Minnesota Gophers
You might not recognize the name Cole Schrupp, but you've probably seen some of his work before. He's made countless awesome videos for the Gophers as well as many other teams, and one of his videos on youtube even hit over one million views. They're good, real good, and I'm always inspired by...
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Ep. 19: Wesley Schultz | The Only 3X All American That Owns A Ferret
Wesley Schultz is quite a character, but also a very successful wrestler and an even better friend. He grew up in Sun Prairie, and attended multiple colleges including Rochester Community Technical College, Iowa Lakes Community College, and UW-La Crosse, and he breaks down why he ended up in so...
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Ep. 18: Bebeto Yewah | The Story of a 2X National Champ for UW-La Crosse and World Team Member
Bebeto Yewah started wrestling VERY late in the game, which is one of the many reasons his accomplishments are so impressive. As the title says, Bebeto was a 2X National Champ, and a 3X National Finalist for UW-La Crosse. He also ended up making the world team for his home country Cameroon where…
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Ep. 17: RECAP | FloWrestling's First Pro Event
I thought it would be fun to switch around the format of the podcast, and do a recap episode with John Broughton who made his SECOND appearance on the show! We discussed what we liked and disliked about FloWrestling's event, as well as some of our dream matchups that we would love to see happen…
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Ep. 16: Albie McKinney | Overcoming Adversity
Albie McKinney is currently a professional MMA fighter with a record of 14-6, and was a national runner up for UW-La Crosse. Putting those accolades aside, Albie is an amazing human being that has overcome a number of obstacles in life. I'm not going to get into the details because it would be a...
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Ep. 15: Connor Boike | CEO & Founder of WrestleBoutique
Connor Boike is the CEO & Founder of WrestleBoutique, like the title says. The coolest thing about him isn't just the fact that he's grown WrestleBoutique into one of the most high end wrestling brands to date, but the fact that he's done that and he's only 22 years old. It was really cool…
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Ep. 14: Kollin Moore | Training at Ohio State in a Room Full of Hammers
Kollin Moore is a 4X NCAA All American for Ohio State, and was the undefeated number one seed going into NCAAs this year before it was cancelled. He's an absolute badass and a phenomenal wrestler, and it was great hearing the behind the scenes stories about the teams during his time at Ohio State.
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Ep. 13: Grant Zamin | 2X All American, Went in to the 2020 D3 NCAA Tournament as the Number 1 seed
Grant Zamin is someone I've known for a while now, and he's one of the hardest workers I've ever met. Grant went from never placing at state in high school, to earning All American honors in 2019, and going into the 2020 NCAA tournament as the number one seed, before it got cancelled. He was also...
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Sebby The Sloth AKA Lenny Merkin | The Instagram Famous Sloth, Ran by Greco World Team Member Lenny Merkin (ep. 12)
Tune in to hear the crazy story of how "Sebby The Sloth" blew up in the wrestling world last year. By listening, you'll also get to know the behind the scenes guy, Lenny Merkin, who is a Greco phenom himself. He shares some great stories about building up Sebby, like how he turned a prize he got…
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Nate Jackson | Talking About Race, the Black Wrestling Association, and Training at the NJRTC (ep. 11)
Nate Jackson is a great guy doing so many different great things and I sincerely enjoyed having him on. For those that don't know, he's a current senior level athlete at the NJRTC, a wrestling coach at Princeton, and had a successful college wrestling career himself finishing with two All…
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Nazar Kulchytskyy | 3X NCAA Champ, Accomplished U.S. Senior level wrestler (ep. 10)
On this episode you will learn about Nazar, and the struggles he faced to get to where he is today. He came from Ukraine not knowing much English, and ended up winning 3 national titles for UW-Oshkosh, and made it look easy. This conversation really humbled me and made me grateful for how easy my...
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Evan Wick | 3X D1 NCAA All American for the Badgers, CIF State Champ, Sushi Enthusiast (ep. 9)
During this interview I learned a lot about Evan Wick, and one thing that really stuck out was how analytical he is in thinking about wrestling which made it fun asking him about future probable matchups towards the end. We also talked about tons of other random stuff like who would win between...
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John Broughton | Ben Askren's go-to Video Guy, Creator of the TrackWrestling Highlight Videos, and Wrestler at UW-Whitewater (ep. 8)
John Broughton is the behind the scenes guy for a variety of stuff that you've probably seen before and never realized who made it. For those that don't know, he created the first wrestling meme page ever that has over 100,000 followers, he's Ben Askren's vlog guy (he's literally walked out and...
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Kyle Conel | 2018 NCAA All American, Aspiring Game Dev (ep. 7)
Most people in the wrestling world know a little bit about Kyle Conel and his NCAA run in 2018. In this episode, we touched on a lot of topics I don't think many people know about, like his wrestling career before college, the experience he had at Penn State, his favorite video games, and a…
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Donald McNeil | The Comeback Story of a Lifetime, Current Athlete at the New England RTC (ep. 6)
Donald McNeil suffered a spinal injury during a greco match in the summer of his sophomore year. To put the severity of the injury into perspective, roughly ten thousand people suffer from an injury like this each year, and only 77 come out with fully recovered. After his injury, he was hearing...
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Jude Swisher | 2020 PIAA State Medalist, Win Magazine’s 2020 Wrestling Journalist of the Year (ep. 5)
I talked with Jude about everything from what it's like knowing David Taylor on a personal level to how he grew the HMA podcast (with Sam Herring) into something huge at just age 15. Super cool interview and we covered lot of fun topics, check it out and please leave a review if you liked it....
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Eric Barnett | Badger 125 pounder, 3X Wisconsin State Champ (ep. 4)
Eric Barnett is a 3X Wisconsin state champion from Hortonville High School (high school record of 185-3), and is currently the 125 pounder for the Wisconsin Badgers. Eric was very successful early on in his career so he talks a lot about what he did to stay motivated and make sure he didn't end…
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Cam Sykora | 5X Minnesota HS State Champ, 2020 133 pound Big XII Champ for NDSU (ep. 3)
Check out my interview Cam Sykora! He was a 5X Minnesota state champ, and went on to wrestle for a year at SDSU , before transferring to NDSU. At NDSU he was a 4X NCAA Qualifier, and most recently was the 2020 Big XII Champ at 133 pounds. It was awesome getting to know Cam a little bit and hear…
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Taylor Venz | Nebraska 184 pounder, 2018 D1 All American (ep. 2)
On this episode of the Mat Awareness podcast, your host Adam Gusky sits down with Taylor Venz to talk about everything from life in quarantine, to taking ice skating lessons as a young kid, and doing stadium stair workouts. Enjoy!
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Gary Traub | Starting heavyweight for tOSU, 2020 NCAA Qualifier (ep. 1)
On the first episode of the Mat Awareness podcast, Gas Tank Gary answers some questions including how he got started wrestling, to what it was like wrestling Kyle Snyder as a freshman.
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The Wrestling Podcast Hosted by Adam Gusky | Welcome! The purpose of this podcast is simple. I try to bring on unique guests to provide you with many different perspectives in wrestling, from wrestlers, coaches, wrestling business owners, and more. I try to do this in the most entertaining way possible. Thanks, for checking it out, and I hope you enjoy the show!
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