First, Best or Different - How Ouachita Baptist paved the way for college wrestling in Arkansas This entire series has been telling you one story to set up another. On Episode 3, we look back at the impact of the first college wrestling program in Arkansas in nearly 50 years, Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Ouachita Baptist started wrestling in 2010. The nearest opponent within Division II was six hours west in Oklahoma. We meet with Rex Horne, then the President of OBU, to find out why his university was the place to start and the impact recurring figures Greg Hatcher and Mike Moyer had in the process. Moyer, Executive Director of the NWCA, explains the broader plan for college wrestling and how Ouachita Baptist was a crucial step to allow more schools to start the sport at the college level in Arkansas. 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.

What came first, the chicken or the egg? On the second episode of Rocked Up, we'll meet Little Rock radio personality and former Arkansas football player David Bazzel. He'll introduce us to how Greg Hatcher, an insurance man in Little Rock, talked him into pitching a press conference to try to introduce wrestling to the state's high schools. Hatcher will further explain the process in going from idea to sanctioned high school state activity and Hatcher's overall impact in the process, including how it wasn't exactly what people might believe financially. We'll meet Carter Lambert of Central Arkansas Christian, legendary wrestling announcer Sandy Stevens as well as catch back up with Bentonville's Bill Desler and Don Schuler.

Wrestling is the world's oldest sport. In Arkansas, it's the newest.

This is Rocked Up, the story of the foundations and formations of a new college sports team at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

What makes this story unique isn't just the fact it's a new sport, but the sport itself is new to the entire state. It's a journey unlike any other.

Launching in the Spring of 2019 is Rocked Up, a new serialized podcast produced by the Mat Talk Podcast Network chronicling the start of a new Division I sport at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.  Season 1 will start from the beginning and chronicle why the school made its decision and chose wrestling, a sport that didn't exist even at the high school level 10 years ago, and how it might change how things are done in college athletics.