Sentence examples for wrestling background from inspiring English sources

Lesnar had a wrestling background.

Back then fighters with a wrestling background were still in charge as the sprawl-and-brawlers arrived to counter the once-dominant ground-and-pounders.

Johnson has massive punching power and a wrestling background, although his wrestling is nowhere near to the standard of former Olympian, Daniel Cormier.

"The library users know my wrestling background and they don't mess with me," said Mr. Vass, who - ever the showman - will not reveal his age.

Still, according to exit polls, roughly 4 in 10 voters said Ms. McMahon's wrestling background played a role in their vote, and of those, 9 to 1 went for Mr. Murphy.

Exit polls conducted by Edison Research showed that Ms. McMahon's wrestling background hurt her: half of the voters said it contributed to their decision, and four out of five of those said it made them less likely to vote for her.

Today's fighters have to be well versed in wrestling, submissions and striking, but since the U.F.C. began 15 years ago, many with stellar wrestling backgrounds have found success.

Bloomberg put his focus on the main battle now ahead: to wrestle universal background checks on all gun sales through the Senate, and then even more problematically, through the Republican-dominated house.

I wonder if some of these Twitter users are some of those same people who were against signing Lesnar in the first place, you know, because of his pro-wrestling background?

Most of the athletes interviewed, now in their 70's and 80's, came to wrestling to escape backgrounds of domestic abuse and poverty.

In a Quinnipiac poll released on Sept. 14, 33 percent of likely voters said that Ms. McMahon's wrestling industry background would make them less likely to vote for her, 20 percent said it would make them more likely to support her and 47 percent said it would have no effect.