This week HS Wrestling will be tracking a variety of events from around the nation.  Below you will find all of the coverage areas HSWrestling.Net will be providing access to throughout the weekend.  Depending upon the level of access we have to the event you may be able to watch live video, track results, or even interact with fans during the event!

February 9th & 10th, 2011

• UHSAA 4A State Wrestling Championships — Orem, UT
• UHSAA 5A State Wrestling Championships — Orem, UT
• Woodland JV Conference 2010-2011 — New Berlin, WI
• DeForest / Waunakee JV Invite — DeForest, WI
• Rapids JV Open — Wis Rapids, WI
• Southern Lakes MS Conference Tournament — Whitewater, WI

February 11th & 12th, 2011

• 2011 Colorado 4A – Region #2  -  —  Colorado Springs, CO
• 2011 FHSAA Class 2A Region 1  -  —  Orange Park, FL
• 2011NCSLesSchwabTireGirlsWrestlngChamp  —-  Newark, CA
• Alabama 1A-4A Section 1  -  —  Anniston, AL
• Alabama 1A-4A Section 2  -  —  Springville, AL
• Alabama 5A Section 1  -  —  Tallassee, AL
• Alabama 5A Section 2  -  —  Arab, AL
• Alabama 6A Section 1  -  —  Prattville, AL
• Alabama 6A Section 2  -  —  Northport, AL
• Alabama 6A Section 3  -  —  Trussville, AL
• Alabama 6A Section 4  -  —  Oxford, AL
• Colorado State 5A – Region 1 Qualifier  -  —  Colorado Springs, CO
• MN State Middle School Championships  -  —  St Cloud, MN
• NC Elem. and Womens` State Championships  -  —  Winston Salem, NC
• NC Junior High State Championship XXIX  -  —  Winston Salem, NC
• Pounder Pride Invitational  -  —  Harrison, TN
• UHSAA 1A State Wrestling Championships  -  —  Orem, UT
• UHSAA 2A State Wrestling Championships  -  —  Orem, UT
• UHSAA 3A State Wrestling Championships  -  —  Orem, UT
• Menomonie Middle School Invite  —  menomonie, WI
• Warrior Schoolboy & Mid School Challenge  —  Alabaster, AL
• South Dakota /USA Folkstyle State  —  Vermillion, SD
• TOA – 2011 Georgia Grind  —  Atlanta, GA
• TOA – 2011 Georgia Grind True Beginners  —  Atlanta, GA
• 2012 1st annual – State Warmup (PPWL)  —  Fountain, CO
• 33rd Annual Blugold Wrestling Invite  —  Eau Claire, WI
• Central Valley Classic  —  Delhi, CA
• Chapman JV Wrestling Tournament  —  Chapman, KS
• Cougar Clash  —  Asheboro, NC
• D1 Reg. 1 – Holmen  —  Holmen, WI
• D1 Reg. 1 – Homestead  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 1 – New Richmond  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 1 – Port Washington  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 1 – Pulaski  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 1 – Racine Case  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 1 – Stoughton  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 1 – Sun Prairie  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 2 – D.C. Everest  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 2 – Marq. University  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 2 – Middleton  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 2 – Neenah  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 2 – Waukesha West  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 2 – West Allis Hale  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 2 – Wilmot Union  —  Wisconsin
• D1 Reg. 2 – Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln  —  Wisconsin
• D2 Reg. 1 – Adams Friendship  —  Adams, WI
• D2 Reg. 1 – Lomira  —  Wisconsin
• D2 Reg. 1 – Northwestern  —  Wisconsin
• D2 Reg. 1 – Seymour  —  Wisconsin
• D2 Reg. 2 – Lodi  —  Lodi, WI
• D2 Reg. 2 – Sheboygan Falls  —  Wisconsin
• D2 Reg. 2 – Somerset  —  Wisconsin
• D2 Reg. 2 – Wild Rose/Wautoma  —  Wisconsin
• D2 Reg. 3 – Campbellsport  —  Wisconsin
• D2 Reg. 3 – Freedom  —  Wisconsin
• D2 Reg. 3 – Neillsville  —  Wisconsin
• D2 Reg. 3 – River Valley  —  Spring Green, WI
• D2 Reg. 4 – Bell./Mont./New Glar.  —  Belleville, WI
• D2 Reg. 4 – Pewaukee  —  Wisconsin
• D2 Reg. 4 – Saint Croix Central  —  Wisconsin
• D2 Reg. 4 – Southern Door  —  Brussels, WI
• D3 Reg. 1 – Boyceville  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 1 – Kickapoo  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 1 – Markesan  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 1 – Wabeno  —  Wabeno, WI
• D3 Reg. 2 – Edgar  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 2 – Ladysmith  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 2 – Necedah  —  Necedah , WI
• D3 Reg. 2 – Random Lake  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 3 – Arcadia  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 3 – Dodgeland  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 3 – Riverdale  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 3 – Weyauwega-Fremont  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 4 – Brillion  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 4 – Cadott  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 4 – Kenosha Saint Joseph  —  Wisconsin
• D3 Reg. 4 – Mineral Point  —  Mineral Point, WI
• East Kansas Open  —  Lenexa, KS
• Jacobs Challenge  —  St. George, UT
• North Hall Jr. Trojan War  —  Gainesville, GA
• O`Fallon Panther Pummel  —  O`Fallon, IL
• PHMS JV Invitational Wrestling Tourn  —  Buhler, KS
• South Paulding Junior Spartan Challenge  —  Douglasville, GA
• Tour of GA – SGAC Devil Dog Challenge  —  Valdosta, GA
• West Sierra League Tournament  —  Firebaugh, CA

February 13th, 2011

• 5th SDIKWA Open  —  Chula Vista, CA
• All ILL Bantam Championship(Bantam State  —  Chicago Heights, IL
• Cardinal Open  —  East Chicago, IN
• Central City Mini Wrestling Tournament  —  Central City , IA
• COVENTRY RENEGADES WRESTLING  —  COVENTRY, RI
• DONNA WOOFTER MEMORIAL NOVICE  —  Lenexa, KS
• IHSWCA Middle School State Championships  —  New Castle, IN
• IWF Johnston Tournament  —  Johnston , IA
• IWF Osage Tournament  —  Osage, IA
• Kansas Novice Championships 2011  —  Derby, KS
• Kansas Novice Championships 2011  —  Derby, KS
• Livermore Barn Burner  —  Livermore, CA
• Morgan County Beginners Tournament  —  Madison, GA
• Mt Horeb Barneveld Youth  —  Mt. Horeb, WI
• Mukwonago Grizzly Open  —  mukwonago, WI
• NMJW 2011 Mid-High Championships  —  Los Lunas, NM
• Riverdale Youth Wrestling Tournament  —  Muscoda, WI
• Southridge Mat Raid 2011  —  Huntingburg, IN
• SWA Yerington Freestyle Tournament  —  Yerington, NV
• The Husky Challenge – St Cloud State  —  St Cloud, MN
• Washington Middle School State Warm Up  —  Spanaway, WA
• Windy City Wrestlers Folkstyle  —  Casper, WY

For results, visit www.trackwrestling.com and find your event.

Nearly two years to the day after "MMA Live" first debuted on ESPN.com on May 15, 2008,
the weekly MMA news show this week makes its much-anticipated transition
to cable television.

Hosted by Jon Anik, UFC fighter Kenny Florian and Newark Star Ledger
combat-sports reporter Franklin McNeil, "MMA Live" airs for the first
time on ESPN late Thursday night, May 6, at 1 a.m. ET/10 p.m. PT.

But the half-hour program is just the first of three appearances for the
broadcast team on ESPN2 this week, as "MMA Live" will also host pre-
and post-UFC 113 specials live from the Bell Centre in Montreal.

Multiple time Nova Uniao world champion Robson Moura will be giving a seminar in New Jersey. Time: 10AM-12PM.

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A lightweight matchup between title contenders George Sotiropoulos and Kurt Pellegrino has been pencilled in for UFC 116 on July 3 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The news of the anticipated match up comes courtesy of a recent report from MMAMania.

Sotiropoulos (12-2-0) is currently riding a six-fight win streak and is yet to taste defeat inside the Octagon while Pellegrino (16-4-0) also looks in the best form of his career having won his last four on the trot.

Both men will enter the bout on the back of big hometown victories with the Aussie dominating Joe Stevenson back at UFC 110 in Sydney, Australia and “Batman” throttling Fabricio Camoes at last month’s UFC 111 in Newark, New Jersey.

UFC 116 will be headlined by returning heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar as he puts his title on the line against interim champ Shane Carwin.

The buy rate for “UFC 111: St. Pierre vs. Hardy” did approx. 770,000 PPV buys and did very well in Canada.

A much anticipated fight for the UFC welterweight title had champion Georges St. Pierre defend his title against British striker Dan Hardy. The interest in seeing one of the best mma fighters would have definitely pushed the PPV numbers and it should be no surprise that the numbers in Canada were high. GSP has been named athlete of the year, he’s signed a couple of big sponsorship deals with Underarmour and Gatorade. The French Canadian has so many fans throughout the world, that any card he’ll fight on will always draw big numbers.

Updated UFC 111 numbers look to be coming in at around 770,000 buys. With Georges St. Pierre as the headliner, the numbers were strongest in Canada, as the top per capita markets were Halifax, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa. Montreal, Hamilton, Saskatoon, St. John’s, Windsor, Kingston, Burlington (Ont), Regina and Victoria, all Canadian markets. The top U.S. markets were Honolulu, Las Vegas, Sacramento, Seattle, Newark and Denver.

As a contrast, the biggest markets for WrestleMania the next day per capita were Guadalajara, Monterrey (Mexico, not California), Mexico City, Phoenix, Delhi, India, Lima, Peru, Marseille, France, Toronto, New York and Santiago, Chile. We still don’t have Mania numbers, but it looks like UFC beat them in the U.S., which is one that I figured would be close, and that’s still not a definite, just trending patterns show UFC 111 well ahead of Mania in the U.S.

In Canada, UFC killed.

But WrestleMania was far stronger internationally. Montreal is usually not a strong UFC PPV market. It’s a strong live event market, but that’s because a strong percentage of those at a Montreal show actually come from Ontario. It shows St. Pierre’s local fame has grown by a big margin in the past year.

A couple of notes on the numbers courtesy of MixedMartialArts.com.

Note: The PPV estimates are incomplete and still subject to change. We’ve posted the reports to give you an idea of the events progress with the cable companies.

Note II: Interesting that Seattle was one of the top markets, again, for the UFC. White has openly said he’d like to take a show there in the next 12 months and I’d expect that to come sooner, rather than later, if these market reports continue to produce such good results in that market.

HT: f4wonline.com via mixedmartialarts.com.

After suffering his first defeat in eight bouts, British striker Dan Hardy (23-7) doesn’t feel like he’s been beaten.

On March 27th, Hardy stepped into the octagon against UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre for the title in Newark, NJ at “UFC 111: St. Pierre vs. Hardy.” The final score was 50-43, 50-44, 50-45 in favor of GSP.

“Obviously GSP won, you look at the scorecard and he was dominant in his victory. But I didn’t feel like I was beaten up in any way, I wasn’t injured, I wasn’t hurt. He took the win from me but he didn’t take the fight from me.

“It was just a frustrating fight,” Hardy said. “Obviously it highlighted some shortfalls in my game and some things that I’m going to be able to dedicate myself more to now in the hopes of getting the (championship) belt at some point. But I’m in no way discouraged by it. I feel very positive.”

HT: Sportsnet.ca
Photo courtesy of UFC.com

All competitors from this past month's UFC 111 event tested negative for performance-enhancing drugs as well as recreations drugs/drugs of abuse.

The New Jersey State Athletic Control Board's Nick Lembo today confirmed the drug-tests with MMAjunkie.com.

UFC 111 took place March 27 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., and aired on Spike TV and pay-per-view.

Last year World Extreme Cagefighting officials first confirmed the addition of a flyweight division.

More than a year later, though, the organization remains void of flyweights fights, and no bouts are on the horizon.

While in Newark, N.J., for last week's UFC 111 event, WEC General Manager Reed Harris said the organization still plans to do add the 125-pound division but that the promotion's three existing weight classes remain a priority.

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AMSTERDAM, Holland (March 24, 2010) – “M-1 Selection” is changing the sport of professional Mixed Martial Arts by giving new and upcoming fighters an opportunity to gain global recognition by competing in M-1 events held all over the world.

The opening round of “The M-1 Selection: Americas”, featuring 11 entertaining fights, will be held Saturday, April 3 at Bally’s Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

It kicks-off the American edition of a global MMA tournament, unrivaled in size and scope, showcasing 160 of the most promising fighters from all around the world competing in five weight classes.

The “M1 Selection Americas” match-ups include the following fights:

Tournament Fights

Lightweights

Pat “Awesomely Awesome” Audinwood (8-0-1), Cortland, NY vs. Robert Connor (7-2-0), Martinsburg, WV

Dennis Bremidez (2-0-0), Harrisburgh, PA. vs. Don Carlo-Clauss (6-3-0), Rochester, NY

George “Lights Out” Sheppard (6-2-0), Newport News, VA vs. Mervin Rodriguez (3-4-0), Amsterdam, NJ

Welterweights

Vagner “Curio” Fernandes (0-1-0), Newark, NJ vs. Tom Moreau (1-0-0), Derry, NH

Brian DeMuro (2-6-0), Blackwood, NJ vs. Mike Winters (1-0-0), Webster, NY

Josh Smidt (5-8-0), Sioux Falls, SD vs. Colin Schrader (2-0-0), Cortland, NY

Middleweights

Todd “The Hulk” Chatelle (4-3-0), Pawtucket, RI vs. Mike Geurin (6-1-0), Dallas, PA

Plinio Cruz (2-2-0), Newark, NJ vs. John “The Iron Bull” Doyle (8-11-0), Allentown, PA

Three non-tournament super fights are also on tap:

The super fights feature a lightweight match between undefeated Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist: Renato Migliaccio (6-0-0), fighting out of Greenwich (CT) by way of Brazil, against New York’s John Salgado (3-2-1).

Philadelphia’s highly-regarded flyweight Sedico Honorio (5-1-0) takes on Nebraska veteran Josh Rave (18-6-0), while Kuwait featherweight Rami “Arabian Nightmare” Ibrahim, now based in Philadelphia, makes his long-awaited pro debut against New York City’s Lennox Chance at a 130-pound catchweight featuring two of the top kickboxers in the country. All fights and fighters are subject to change.

About M-1 Selection:

The “M-1 Selection” is a knockout competition. Fighters are eliminated after only one loss while two victories earn fighters a trip to the championship to earn a shot at a coveted “M-1 Selection” title.

The “M-1 Selection” tournament is broken down into four global regions: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Americas. Each of the four regions will host three rounds and a final of the ““M-1 Selection” tournament. The winning fighter in each weight class will join the team to represent his region in the 2010 M-1 Challenge.

The “M-1 Selection Americas” event will showcase elimination fights in the lightweight, welterweight, and middleweight categories. Winners advance to the Americas second knockout round.

The tournament will feature some of the best up-and-coming fighters from each region as they begin the journey towards a tournament victory.

An Americas light heavyweight and heavyweight round is also scheduled for this spring and will take place to determine the semi-finalists for the region.

How to see the fights:

Free broadcast coverage of the entire 2010 M-1 Selection tournament will be available live to viewers worldwide on www.Sherdog.com.

Tickets, priced at $55.00-$95.00, are available to purchase through www.TicketMaster.com

Doors open at 6.30 pm, first fight at 7:00 PM/ET.

Go to www.M-1Global.com for additional information.

After earning a series-high 1.9 million viewers for its UFC 109 broadcast, Spike TV's "UFC Prelims" broadcast for this past weekend's UFC 111 event dipped to 1.2 million viewers, MMAjunkie.com today confirmed with an industry source.

The two-fight March 27 broadcast, which featured Nate Diaz vs. Rory Markhman and Ricardo Almeida vs. Matt Brown, faced stiff competition from tail end of the Elite Eight round of the NCAA basketball tournament.

UFC 111 took place at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., and the "UFC Prelims" broadcast served as a teaser for the night's pay-per-view main card.