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NXT UK results: Travis Banks vs. Jordan Devlin
WWE Raw posts record first-to-third hour ratings decline
NXT TakeOver conference call audio: AEW, Lars Sullivan, more
Chris Sabin suffered torn ACL, expects to be out for 8-12 months
ROH TV results: Rush makes his debut
UFC averages nearly two million viewers for first ESPN prelims
Randy Orton added to list of WWE Royal Rumble entrants
WWE SmackDown video highlights: Royal Rumble go-home show
Two title matches airing on WWE Royal Rumble pre-show
WWE 205 Live results: Kalisto vs. Akira Tozawa vs. Hideo Itami
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F4W NEWSLETTER: Figure Four Weekly: WWE’s women’s division balancing act

Ahead of the company’s second-ever women’s Royal Rumble match and potentially the first women’s WrestleMania main event in history, a couple of segments have called the presentation of WWE’s women’s division into question. WWE’s promise of change appears to include taking the on-screen product in a slightly more risqué direction. On back-to-back nights, that was evidenced by angles involving Alexa Bliss and Mandy Rose.

WON NEWSLETTER: January 21, 2019 Observer Newsletter: Ring of Honor signs Rush, more

The business year in review issue of the Wrestling Observer is out with looks at both the biggest drawing cards and best big match wrestlers of the modern era.

This issue looks at combat sports including the biggest crowds of 2018, what main eventers headlined the most successful house shows, PPV numbers for 2018, big crowds broken down by major promotion, and UFC PPV comparisons over the last 12 years.

Also have a detailed look at the new signings and negotiations over the past week. Look in depth at the battle to sign Rush, including what MLW and RHO offered, how CMLL played a role, and when Rush will be a free agent.

Read the update on the Royal Rumble show, the story behind why Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman was pulled from the show a long time before it got out, the real reasons why the match isn’t happening and why it continued to be pushed even though it wasn’t happening.

Read a complete rundown of the NXT UK show, with match-by-match coverage with star ratings and poll results.

Examine the success of WWE stock, the new U.K. training center, WWE women’s’ tag team titles, the reasons behind some of the debuts of new characters on television, Vince McMahon’s new XFL update, WWE changing hosts for WWE Network, new contracts signed, injury updates, who wants out, and the Nigel McGuinness documentary.

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WEDNESDAY NEWS UPDATE

WWE
With Heavy Machinery debuting on the main roster, Shane Thorne is replacing Otis Dozovic in the Worlds Collide tournament that’s taking place at Royal Rumble Axxess. The tournament features wrestlers from NXT, NXT UK, and 205 Live, with the winner getting a title shot on any of those brands. Worlds Collide is being taped for a WWE Network special, though further details on that have yet to be revealed.
NXT UK TV tapings had already been announced for Royal Rumble Axxess, and it was noted this week that the tapings will be for three episodes.
Brie Bella spoke to Digital Spy about the reaction she received after accidentally injuring Liv Morgan. She was asked if it was important to have Total Bellas as an outlet to tell her story: “Yes, it definitely is, because first off it’s crazy how I’ve been wrestling for 12 years and one of my major mistakes in the ring I get judged so harshly on. We’re not perfect, no one’s perfect, you know how many people have been injured in the ring? But for some reason I was like showcased in such a way of like, this evil person, and ‘look what she’s done’ and I got bullied really bad. I wanted to run into a cave and you’ll see. I don’t think people have ever seen me break down as bad as they will during the whole Liv situation. I went into deep depression. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to go back to work. All the horrible things people were saying about me, I felt a thousand times worse than the things they thought of me and I really had to sit down and think to myself, ‘Brie, you’re a mother’ and if Birdie was in this situation would you want her to feel this bad or would you want her to stand up to it and be like ‘Screw you guys?’ I made a mistake and she’s not badly injured and you know what, this is our business, this is what we all signed up for. Everyone’s going to see backstage even how Liv and I were with each other. Out in the WWE ring, we have to play so much, bad guy, good guy, don’t talk to your competitors, but backstage you’ll see that we’re all really close and it affects us. We never want to go out there and hurt each other so when it happens it’s emotional. But people are going to hear my side of the story and my voice and how it’s about damn time that trolls stopped going on the internet and bullying everyone.”
Sunday’s episode of Total Bellas averaged 460,000 viewers, which is down from 505,000 viewers for the season premiere and is the lowest number in series history. The rating in the 18-49 demo this week was a 0.20.
Matt Hardy praised Rey Mysterio after Mysterio’s two-out-of-three falls match against Andrade on last night’s SmackDown: “How can anyone not love & respect @reymysterio? For a guy who has put his body through SO damn much for nearly 30 years, his skills as an athletic performer are positively MIND-BLOWING. What a LEGEND. #SDLive”
Jeffrey Pollack has been named as president and chief operating officer of the XFL. Pollack had been the Los Angeles Charger’s chief marketing and strategy officer and a special advisor.
Dakota Kai noted that yesterday was day one of her rehab from ACL surgery.
Ronda Rousey appeared on the latest episode of Kevin Hart’s “Cold as Balls” video series.
TV Insider interviewed Finn Balor ahead of his Universal title match against Brock Lesnar at the Royal Rumble.
WWE uploaded a video of Hulk Hogan reflecting on today being the 35th anniversary of him defeating The Iron Sheik for the WWF World Championship.
Joe UK has a feature story on NXT’s United Kingdom brand.
A Royal Rumble burger will be on sale for those in attendance at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday. It’s an 18 ounce pork bratwurst patty on a toasted onion roll with cheddar cheese, smoked bacon, crispy coleslaw, fried onions, and BBQ aioli. The burger is topped with fried macaroni and cheese wedges.
Pro Wrestling
Wrestlecon announced that PAC will be wrestling at multiple shows and signing at their convention during WrestleMania week in New York City.
Bandido vs. Rocky Romero is set for ROH’s Road to G1 Supercard show in San Antonio this Saturday. Women of Honor World Champion Kelly Klein will also defend her title against Sumie Sakai in San Antonio. The show will feature the semifinals and finals of ROH’s Tag Wars tournament.
The Street Profits (NXT’s Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) defending their EVOLVE Tag Team titles against AR Fox & DJZ is set for EVOLVE 121 in Atlanta on February 15.
At EVOLVE 122 in Concord, North Carolina on February 16, EVOLVE Champion Austin Theory will defend his title against Anthony Henry.
Curt Stallion has signed with WWN.
MLW has announced a grudge match between Kotto Brazil and Ricky Martinez for their TV tapings at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia on February 2.
Alexander Hammerstone has signed with MLW and will debut on February 2.
Eli Drake tweeted a picture of him and Taya Valkyrie with The Undertaker at Shot Show 2019.
UFC/MMA
Jake Hager (the former Jack Swagger) said the advice Vince McMahon gave him for his Bellator debut is “don’t lose.” Hager also mentioned Rey Mysterio and Roman Reigns as two others who have reached out to him.
After Henry Cejudo appeared on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show and talked about sitting next to Nikki Bella on a flight and having a crush on her, Nikki responded to Cejudo and teased training with him and grabbing a drink.
The UFC is targeting Yoel Romero vs. Paulo Costa for the main event of their ESPN show on April 27. Romero is currently on a reality show in the Dominican Republic.
Walt Harris has been temporarily suspended after testing positive for LGD4033.
Fabricio Werdum helped rescue a teen from drowning at a beach in California.
Rory MacDonald will defend his welterweight title against Jon Fitch in a Welterweight Grand Prix first round match at Bellator’s show in San Jose on April 27.

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Iraq has agreed to take back up to 20,000 of its nationals who were captured leaving Isil areas in Syria, as local authorities warn they are struggling with the burden of foreign jihadists.

The number includes women and children as well as a small number of fighters, according to officials from the Red Cross.

Most are being held in al-Hol camp in Kurdish-held northern Syria, where authorities are scrabbling to accommodate the 65,000 who recently fled Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s final stronghold of Baghuz.

More than 100 people have died in the camps, or on their way to it, including the three-week old son of 19-year-old runaway schoolgirl from Bethnal Green Shamima Begum.

Five orphaned siblings wait for their aunt and uncle to finish their adoption paperwork outside the administrative offices of al-Hol camp for displaced civiliansCredit:
Sam Tarling for The Telegraph

"Among the people who reached al-Hol camp you have a significant number of people who are of Iraqi origin. Figures are not official but probably we are talking about 20,000, including women and children," Fabrizio Carboni, ICRC regional director for the Middle East, told Reuters.

"The Iraqi government has expressed its will to bring those people back, but it’s obviously a challenging situation. Those people are considered as a security threat, so it means that they will have to go through a screening process," he added.

There was no official date to his knowledge for the huge transfer, Mr Carboni said: "But according to our understanding, it’s a matter of weeks or months.”

Western-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are holding more than 4,000 non-Iraqi foreign men and women with links to Isil, as well as their children.

The SDF has warned it does not have the resources to hold them for much longer and has encouraged allies to take responsibility.

Civilians evacuated from Isil's embattled holdout of Baghuz wait at a screening area held by the SDFCredit:
AFP

Britain and most other European countries have so far refused to repatriate their citizens, saying they pose a security risk.

Iraq has shown little leniency to Isil suspects at trial.

The Telegraph has attended hearings both in Baghdad and Mosul, where hundreds of detainees have been handed lengthy sentences and in some cases even the death penalty.

Some of the foreign women were given 20-year sentences simply for following their husbands to the so-called caliphate.

Baghdad’s investigative court is currently hearing the cases of 14 French male suspects who were handed over by to Iraqi authorities by the SDF.

Suspected Islamic State members sit inside a small room in a prison south of Mosul, northern IraqCredit:
AP

A report released last week by Human Rights Watch also revealed that Iraq was holding more than 1,500 children in prisons on suspicion of links to Isil. More than 150 have been charged, often based on confessions obtained through torture, the group said.

The battle for Baghuz, meanwhile, looks set to continue for days more as the SDF makes incremental advances between long pauses to allow women and children to leave the pocket and men to lay down their arms.

“We could take it in one night. But the strategy is to press Isil to let their civilians out, not to storm the place,” said Behzat Cudi, unit commander. “So we attack and give them a chance to surrender.”

SDF troops launched a fighting reconnaissance raid into the pocket on Sunday night and advanced to take and hold the same ground overnight on Tuesday.

Fighting is now taking place at close quarters among tents and fox holes often occupied by women and children as well as Isil fighters and suicide bombers. The commander said it is often impossible to use the coalition air support that has given the SDF the decisive advantage in previous battles.

One commander told the Telegraph last week that the remaining area could conceal 2,000 Isil fighters and more civilians, though with a reported 2,000 mostly fighters surrendering on Tuesday it was unclear just how many were left.

The SDF and coalition have throughout the battle for Baghouz grossly underestimated the number left in the pocket.

WWE has officially announced this year’s WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal and confirmed 13 wrestlers for the match.

This will be the second year in a row that the battle royal has taken place, and it will again feature wrestlers from Raw, SmackDown, and NXT. Naomi won last year’s battle royal. It was the final match on the WrestleMania 34 pre-show.

Asuka, Carmella, Naomi, Lana, Mandy Rose, Sonya Deville, Nikki Cross, Dana Brooke, Ruby Riott, Liv Morgan, Sarah Logan, Mickie James, and Zelina Vega are the first entrants who have been announced for this year’s battle royal.

The sixth-annual Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal will also be part of the WrestleMania 35 card. Braun Strowman and Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che & Colin Jost have been in a storyline leading into WrestleMania, and they’re the first three entrants who have been confirmed for the men’s battle royal.

WrestleMania 35 is taking place at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on April 7.

Viktor Orban, the Hungarian Prime Minister, faces calls to distance himself from an anti-immigration campaign or see his Fidesz party thrown out of the European Union’s most powerful political grouping on Wednesday.

The European People’s Party (EPP), a bloc of conservative parties from across the EU, is set to meet in Brussels this on Wednesday evening to decide whether to expel Fidesz over campaign posters that attacked Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission.

Manfred Weber, the German favourite to succeed Mr Juncker, flew into Budapest last week in a bid to shore up an increasingly strained political alliance with Mr Orban.

As Mr Weber drove into the city, the campaign…

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The Islamic State group has disclosed the creation of a new regional chapter in Pakistan, as the group tries to rebrand and rebuild after the destruction of its caliphate.

The organisational reshuffle came five days after the announcement of a similar new outfit in India.

Pakistani operations had until this week been attributed to the group’s Khorasan Province which encompassed Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of central Asia.

Statements claiming the killing of a Pakistani policeman and a rival Taliban member in separate attacks in Balochistan earlier this week were instead attributed to a new Pakistan Province.

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The group has been restructuring its regional operations since last summer, said Tore Hamming, a jihadist specialist at the European University Institute. New regional groups have been also been founded in Turkey, Central Africa and Greater Sahara, he said.

The remnants of the Islamic State caliphate in Baghouz, Syria, in March

However, the new names are “nothing more than a rebranding strategy to counter its demise”, he said.

“I simply see it as a calculated strategy to appear as successful and as an expanding force in the midst of all its territorial loss.”

Setting up more branches was an attempt to boost its credentials in those regions and attract new recruits as well as defections from other militant groups, analysts also believe.

Islamic State group first emerged in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2015 at the height of the extremists self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Members of the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban as well as other militant groups defected to swear allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

While the group has taken responsibility for a string of bombings in Pakistan, the country’s security forces claim it has no organised presence. Across the border in Afghanistan, it has established a stubborn grip in parts of Kunar and Nangarhar, but has lost territory to the Taliban.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Augustana wrestling returns after a two-week layoff to open the dual portion of its schedule at the South Dakota Showcase in Spearfish, S.D. on Sunday, Dec. 3. The South Dakota Showcase will be held at Spearfish High School with matches beginning at 12 p.m. (CT).

The Vikings kick off the showcase at 12 p.m. (CT) against fellow NSIC foe, Northern State, in a non-conference matchup on mat two. At 1:30 p.m. (CT) Augustana will take on Dakota Wesleyan on mat two. The Vikings conclude the dual against South Dakota State on mat one at 3 p.m. (CT).

Augustana Projected Lineup
125: So. Brandon Carroll OR RFr. Ethan Cota
133: RFr. Jebben Keyes
141: Sr. Austin Jordan OR Jr. Colin Ayers
149: Sr. Oscar Ramirez Jr.
157: So. Bailey Neises OR Sr. Bruce Lemon Jr. OR RFr. Jackson Sweeney
165: Sr. Mitch Rechtzigel OR So. Regan Bye OR RFr. Ben Kelvington
174: Jr. Lukas Poloncic OR So. Hunter Haman
184: Sr. Aero Amo
197: Jr. Clayton Wahlstrom
285: Sr. Lane Lettau or Jr. Luke Nohns

Last Time Out
The Vikings last saw action at the Dakota Wesleyan Open on Nov. 11, where Augustana had six placers. Sophomore Brandon Carroll and freshman Daniel Bishop (unattached) each were finalists and finished in second. Bailey Neises (third), Clayton Wahlstrom (fourth), Colin Ayers (sixth) and Bruce Lemon Jr. (sixth) also placed.

Scouting Northern State
The Wolves have yet to have a dual on the season and have competed at the Jamestown Open, Dakota Wesleyan Open and the Cobber Open. Northern State is led by freshman Kenny Jones (133 pounds) and junior Blake Perryman (165 pounds).

Scouting Dakota Wesleyan
The Tigers have dropped both of their dual matches on the season to Doane (37-13) and Concordia (Neb.) (55-0). Dakota Wesleyan is led by freshman Stas Sutera at 133 pounds with a record of 6-7.

Scouting South Dakota State
The Jackrabbits enter the showcase with a dual record of 0-2, having been defeated by Minnesota (20-12) and Arizona State (25-13). South Dakota State ranks 17th in the NWCA/USA Today Division I poll and has four wrestlers individually ranked.

Junior Seth Gross at 133 pounds ranks first in Division I, senior Nate Rotert sits in seventh at 197 pounds, senior David Kocer at 174 pounds is ranked 10th and senior Luke Zilverberg rounds out the ranked Jackrabbits sitting in 11th at 157 pounds.

Vikings in the Rankings
The Augustana wrestling team is ranked in a tie for 21st in the first regular season edition of NCAA Division II National Poll. The Vikings were sitting in a tie for 23rd in the preseason rankings.

Augustana has two wrestlers individually ranked. Senior Aero Amo comes in at third at 184 pounds and sophomore Brandon Carroll is listed at No. 7 at 125 pounds.

Up Next
The Vikings will host the Augustana Duals on Saturday, Dec. 9 with duals beginning at 10 a.m.

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WWE Play-by-Play Commentator Corey Graves has been recently active on Twitter, responding to users about his former WWE Coach, Bill DeMott. DeMott was ousted from The WWE in 2015 due to allegations of misconduct during his time as a trainer in the company’s developmental territories Deep South Wrestling, Florida Championship Wrestling & NXT.
One of Graves’ initial tweets reads, “I’m not really old enough to claim ‘back in my day,’ but what I remember as ‘coaching’ or ‘motivation’ is now considered ‘bullying.’ I turned out just fine. And my kids are probably tougher than yours. Can you please pass the blue crayon for these adult coloring books?”
An individual responded to Graves, writing, “In a company that once had Bill DeMott as a head trainer who seemed to think pretty highly of his motivation skills, perhaps this isn’t the best hill to die on? That twitter break you were gonna do might have done some good, man.”

Graves would then reply in two parts, stating, “I still stand by Bill DeMott. We weren’t always best friends, but there was no malice whatsoever. It wasn’t until people started complaining that getting PAID TO TRAIN was too hard for them, that it became an issue. What’s the point you’re trying to argue? He was my head coach. I did what he said. I personally believe I ended up better for it. Still trying to figure out why you’re mad at a guy you’ve never met…”

I’m not really old enough to claim “back in my day,” but what I remember as “coaching” or “motivation” is now considered “bullying.”
I turned out just fine. And my kids are probably tougher than yours.
Can you please pass the blue crayon for these adult coloring books?
— Rev. Graves (@WWEGraves) February 10, 2019

In a company that once had Bill DeMott as a head trainer who seemed to think pretty highly of his motivation skills, perhaps this isn’t the best hill to die on? That twitter break you were gonna do might have done some good, man. https://t.co/zHJ8ARgAiK
— King AWE, Liam ???‍?? (@TheLemonyLiam) February 11, 2019

I still stand by @BillDeMott. We weren’t always best friends, but there was no malice whatsoever.
It wasn’t until people started complaining that getting PAID TO TRAIN was too hard for them, that it became an issue.
— Rev. Graves (@WWEGraves) February 11, 2019

What’s the point you’re trying to argue?
He was my head coach. I did what he said. I personally believe I ended up better for it.
Still trying to figure out why you’re mad at a guy you’ve never met…
— Rev. Graves (@WWEGraves) February 11, 2019

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106: Emily Shilson (CENT) over Gage Clem (ELRI) (Fall 3:45)
113: Colton Pool (ELRI) over Josh Head (CENT) (Fall 1:04)
120: Eli Williams (ELRI) over Jacob Head (CENT) (Fall 2:00)
126: Wyatt Schimmelman (ELRI) over Mason Wiersgalla (CENT) (Dec 8-4)
132: Eric Hotakainen (CENT) over Grady Haferbecker (ELRI) (Dec 8-2)
138: Adam Johnson (CENT) over (ELRI) (For.)
145: Tyler Benson (ELRI) over Carter Benson (CENT) (Fall 3:31)
152: Brandon Kidd (ELRI) over Zach Mulberry (CENT) (Fall 3:09)
160: Alex Sanborn (ELRI) over Isaiah Bettinger (CENT) (Fall 1:40)
170: Eli Greenberg (ELRI) over (CENT) (For.)
182: John Noll (CENT) over Cooper Oudekerk (ELRI) (Fall 1:19)
195: Cody Peterson (CENT) over John Kirvich (ELRI) (Fall 1:36)
220: Luke Breuning (CENT) over (ELRI) (For.)
285: Seth Hopkins (ELRI) over David Dolney (CENT) (Fall 3:53)

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RAW Superstar Natalya has her eye set on a possible match with SmackDown Women’s Champion Asuka now that Charlotte Flair (& Becky Lynch) have earned title shots from RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey.
Natalya wrote on Twitter, “Smackdown girls coming over to #Raw to face our women’s champion? I want to play that game……”
You can check out Natalya’s full tweet below:

Smackdown girls coming over to #Raw to face our women’s champion? ?? I want to play that game……??‍?? pic.twitter.com/sznqVfE4Yk
— Nattie (@NatbyNature) February 12, 2019

Below is a video of Sonya Deville & Mandy Rose talking to Kayla Braxton after last Tuesday night’s episode of SmackDown LIVE. Braxton asks about the disadvantage of starting Sunday’s Elimination Chamber Match first with the team of Sasha Banks & Bayley.

Deville responded, “Disadvantage? We’re going to be the first ones in and the last ones out. That’s what champions do and come Sunday, we will be the champions.”

Deville & Rose also commented on Sasha Banks re-injuring her shoulder on RAW, calling it “amazing” because that is just one less person they will have to worry about as they look to capture The WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles.

Manheim, Pennsylvania — The nation’s top five teams have combined to go 34-0 in the first month and a half of the college wrestling season as the final USA Today/NWCA Division I Wrestling Coaches Poll was released on Wednesday for the 2017 calendar year.

Penn State (5-0) remains No. 1, while Ohio State (6-0), Oklahoma State (5-0) and Missouri (8-0) maintained their positions over the past week. NC State (10-0) moved up to No. 5, jumping one spot over Lehigh (6-1). The rest of the top ten was unchanged as the Big Ten took three of the four spots at 7-10 with Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan staying put as did No. 10 Virginia Tech from the ACC.

Penn State beat Indiana 44-3 to open up its Big Ten schedule, while Ohio State dropped one individual bout in two neutral-site victories. The Buckeyes shut out Princeton prior to the Beast of the East in Newark, Delaware on Friday and then beat Chattanooga 39-3 at The Cooler in suburban Atlanta.

Oklahoma State got a scare on Tuesday night, splitting 10 matches with unranked Wyoming in a battle of Cowboys. The Stillwater-branded Cowboys won the dual 20-15 in a dual that saw two-time NCAA champion Dean Heil have his 55-match win streak snapped by Wyoming’s Bryce Meredith. A day earlier, Oklahoma State topped Northern Colorado 37-4.

NC State won nine out of 10 in Lincoln to beat then-No. 12 Nebraska 29-3. Things got worse for the Huskers as another ACC school came in and stole a victory. North Carolina (2-3) topped the Huskers 22-14 and re-entered the Top 25 at No. 24 this week. The Tar Heels did fall to then-No. 15 Northern Iowa 17-16 on criteria two days later. Nebraska slid six spots to No. 18.

The only other matchup between ranked teams saw No. 23 Central Michigan score a modest 24-10 upset over No. 19 Purdue on Monday. Central Michigan also picked up wins over Northern Illinois and SIU Edwardsville.

Other ranked teams earning wins last week were: Cornell topping Buffalo 31-6, Oklahoma edging Appalachian State 19-13 and the aforementioned Northern Iowa win over North Carolina. Lock Haven beat Bloomsburg and non-Division I schools Wheeling Jesuit and Messiah to improve to 4-0. North Carolina’s return meant Navy was forced out of the Top 25 one week after making its first appearance since 2008.

Of note, South Dakota State (4-2) is ranked 15th this week, the highest in program history at the Division I level. The Jackrabbits had been ranked as high as 16th on five different occasions, all coming since February 2017.

The next poll will be a Wednesday release on January 3, 2018.

The USA Today/NWCA Division I Wrestling Coaches Poll is comprised of two voting coaches from each Division I wrestling conference. Points are 25 for each first-place vote, 24 for second, 23 for third all the way to a 25th-place vote is one point.

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Future Poll Dates (Tuesdays unless otherwise noted): January 3 (Wednesday), January 9, January 16, January 23, January 30, February 6, February 13, February 20, February, 27.

RankTeam (First)RecordPointsConferencePrevious1Penn State5-0396Big Ten12Ohio State6-0388Big Ten23Oklahoma State5-0367Big 1234Missouri8-0347MAC45NC State10-0333ACC66Lehigh6-1328EIWA57Iowa7-0301Big Ten78Minnesota3-1286Big Ten89Michigan2-1273Big Ten910Virginia Tech4-1260ACC1011Arizona State2-2237Pac-121112Cornell2-0226EIWA1313Illinois1-2198Big Ten1414Northern Iowa2-1191Big 121515South Dakota State4-2177Big 121616Wisconsin4-0145Big Ten1817Rutgers3-2140Big Ten1718Nebraska2-2103Big Ten1219Oklahoma2-2101Big 122020Lock Haven4-081EWL2221Central Michigan3-380MAC2322Rider2-174EWL2123Purdue4-170Big Ten1924North Carolina2-337ACCNR25Edinboro2-124EWL24

Others Receiving Votes: Navy 20, Northwestern 7, Utah Valley 6, Drexel 2, North Dakota State 2
Dropped Out: No. 25 Navy (3-0)

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Isil branches out into Pakistan as it bids to rebuild collapsed caliphate

Vikings Set to Grapple with the Best in the State at the South Dakota Showcase

Corey Graves Comments About Training Under Bill DeMott

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RAW Superstar Wants Title Shot From Asuka, Rose & Deville

North Carolina re-enters Top 25; Penn State, Ohio State still ranked 1-2 heading into Holiday tournaments