Profiling 100 of the world's top wrestlers as we countdown the days until the 2019 Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

27 days out, Trackwrestling.com features Pat Downey of the United States.

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Profiling 100 of the world's top wrestlers as we countdown the days until the 2019 Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

28 days out, Trackwrestling.com features Victoria Francis of the United States.

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We've got electricians, we've got plumbing and we've got mouse ears! That's right, the Short Time Wrestling Podcast is heading to Orlando. My wife and kids and I will head to Disney World. We'll be hitting a few different places, spending time by the pool, sweating, having breakfast with Cinderella and everything else that goes with it.

My seven-year-old has been writing about this on the dry erase board for months, while my three-year-old would rather watch PJ Masks, which isn't a Disney thing.

This, however, is the Short Time Wrestling Podcast and I'm still working without a proper studio, so I'm still doing the solo show topic episode. Last time, we had a lot of great feedback with the pro wrestling topic.

Before we get to all that - a quick hit on the Yianni-Zain thing.

While I wasn't at the NWCA Convention, I did get word there were some ideas being tossed around about the NWCA All-Star Classic and the future of that event. This prompted me to ask you what your favorite All-Star Classic match of all-time was.

So before we get to those answers, let's give you a little bit of backstory on the event.

The East-West All-Star Classic first started in 1967 and was held after the season in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The event continued to be an East-West dual meet through 1987 when the team scoring component was taken out of the event.

In 1973, the event moved to an in-season event, taking place in late January or early February until 2004. The NWCA opted to put the event in November to avoid matchups being dumped amidst concern for seed protection and coaches citing injury concerns so close to the postseason. The late November date went for eight seasons before the NWCA moved the event to the opening weekend of the college wrestling season in order to make it a kickoff weekend for college wrestling.

The last two events have featured a large presence of women's college wrestlers, which the NAIA has already created women's wrestling as an invitational sport, while the NCAA is close to granting women's wrestling emerging sports status.

One of the most recent complaints coming from fans is that the event hasn't been a real "All-Star" event because there are so few No. 1 vs. No. 2 wrestlers. Statistically, only one dual in recent memory (Penn State vs. Ohio State in 2017-18) featured as many All-Americans and top-ten wrestlers than the All-Star Classic typically does. Denver in 2018-19 was a notable exception as the card was split between men and women.

This will be the 54th edition of the NWCA All-Star Classic. No,

Profiling 100 of the world's top wrestlers as we countdown the days until the 2019 Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

29 days out, Trackwrestling.com features Joe Rau of the United States.

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Profiling 100 of the world's top wrestlers as we countdown the days until the 2019 Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

30 days out, Trackwrestling.com features Kyle Snyder of the United States.

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Episode 34 of The MatBoss Podcast is with four-time All-American and three-time NCAA Division I finalist Gerry Abas of Fresno State. Abas talks about his start in wrestling in the Bay Area and how his speed, quickness and flash on the wrestling mat had its foundations in breakdancing in the 1980s.

Abas talks about his classic match and loss to Iowa's Lincoln McIlravy, coaching his younger brother Stephen at Fresno State, watching the school drop the program and his feelings about it at the time. Abas also talks about his son Jaden and what we can expect from him on the next level.

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Profiling 100 of the world's top wrestlers as we countdown the days until the 2019 Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

31 days out, Trackwrestling.com features Germany's Frank Staebler.

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Profiling 100 of the world's top wrestlers as we countdown the days until the 2019 Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

32 days out, Trackwrestling.com features India's Pooja Dhanda.

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Profiling 100 of the world's top wrestlers as we countdown the days until the 2019 Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

33 days out, Trackwrestling.com features Spain's Taimuraz Friev.

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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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Rocked Up is a presentation of the Mat Talk Podcast Network and can be found on the web at GetRockedUp.com or at MatTalkOnline.com.

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