Lou Orr and Rudy James have been practicing this summer as they prepare for the UWW Veterans World Wrestling Championship starting in Tbilisi, Georgia from 8th October.
Rudy is a returning triple crown champion, having claimed the USAW Folkstyle, Freestyle, and Greco-Roman national titles in his Master’s Division in the spring of 2019. He has previously played at the UWW Championships several times, and have won 3 world silver medals at 78 kgs in 2016, 2017, and 2018. This time Rudy is living the dream to bring home the Gold medal this year in Freestyle and place in Greco-Roman but the training & traveling expense for the world championship was hard to come by. That is the time Rudy decided to raise funds through Fund-Raiser program on Facebook. And with-in no time he got the required support.
In a post on Facebook, Rudy has thanked his supporters on Fund-Raiser.
“The world wrestling journey started in 2015 with 2016, 2017 & 2018 earning world silver medals at 78 kgs and the goal for GOLD (World Champion) remains. I am grateful and appreciate the funding to allow me to compete and thank God for the opportunity every day. #livingthedream. In the Spring of 2019, I competed at the US Masters Open Nationals tournaments, where I tripled crown winning all three styles (champion) in Folkstyle, Freestyle and Greco-Roman. My training is coming along good and there is more work to be done. It’s in my heart to strive to be the best and overcoming any of the challenges ahead!
Like Rudy, many other wrestlers from UK and Canada have taken route of either raising funds through facebook or with the help of community support will be traveling to Tbilisi to participate in UWW Veteran World Wrestling Championship.
The 2018 freestyle Veteran world wrestling championships was played in Skopje, Macedonia The 2019 United World Wrestling Veterans Freestyle & Greco-Roman World Championships will start on on October 8th-13th in Tbilisi, Georgia and will be LIVE streamed exclusively on WrestlingTV.in
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