The lighting above the gold circle is big and bright and centered, illuminating a setting where men will soon be doing what men have been doing for thousands of years, using arms and legs and hands and minds and brawn and strength to see who is the toughest of the tribe, the one who survives and gets his hand held high at the end.The man at the end of the row is there to see American college wrestling, not fake pro wrestling or mixed martial arts or the international Greco-Roman style of grappling used in the Olympics.
There are pictures of nine current Marysville High School boy wrestlers on the wall, and three girls’ basketball stars. “I think it came down to Boehner had told Jordan to sit back and wait his turn, and Jordan got tired of it after a while,” says one political lobbyist in Washington who did not want his name used. They think they are what they view the average American to be, hard-working, independent, responsible for their own lot on life and not everyone else’s. Jordan won the 1985 and 1986 NCAA championship matches in the 134-pound weight class. Regarded as a staunch ally of Donald Trump, James “Jim” Daniel Jones is as powerful as a politician as he was once as a wrestler. That’s why there were 3,659 men’s wrestling D1 scholarships when Jordan graduated high school in 1982, and 2,544 last year. America may be moving on, and for a variety of reasons, both the Tea Party and wrestling could be left behind.Matt Huffman, a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives (term-limited out), and now running for state senate in Jordan’s district, remembers going to Jordan’s daughter’s wedding a few years ago and being surprised at who he ended up sitting with for dinner.“They had the politicians table at the reception, and when I sat down at my place, I saw I was sitting next to Dennis Kucinich. He is a freak of sorts, 165 pounds of lean muscle and with a neck that seems to grow from the middle of his shoulders. He voted against enforcing limits on carbon dioxide (While serving in the Ohio Senate, Jordan supported the Tax and Expenditure Limitation Amendment, a state constitutional amendment that would require a vote of the people to raise taxes or increase spending over certain limits.In early June 2018, at least eight former wrestlers said that Jordan had been aware of, but did not respond to, allegations of sexual misconduct by Strauss.In July 2018, Jordan's congressional spokesman Ian Fury released a statement in which Ohio State wrestling coach Jordan has refused to cooperate with investigations into Strauss.In May 2019, DiSabato filed a Title IX lawsuit against OSU. But it gets down to one simple fact: More than half of the country doesn’t care one way or another about the Tea Party or what it says or does. Wrestlers never show up the opponent when they beat them, nor do they celebrate too long, because the next match is real soon against someone who wants to tear you head off.”And Jordan did take Boehner’s head off, something not lost among longtime Washington conservatives. In one count of the court papers, DiSabato claimed that a second cousin of Jordan's attempted to "intimidate and retaliate" against DiSabato.In November 2019, a retired wrestling referee filed a lawsuit alleging that he had warned Jordan and Hellickson about Strauss' misconduct.In February 2020, Adam DiSabato—the brother of Mike DiSabato—testified before the Ohio House Civil Justice Committee that "Jim Jordan called me crying, crying. “The decisions that are being made right now are whether a sport makes money for the university, or whether it in some ways gets the numbers wrong with Title IX,” he says. He has got a body with perfect height and balanced weight matching his body. But one sport specialization is now preferred in high school, and the star athlete that plays football in the fall and wrestles in the winter is rare.
Even if others don’t like what you are advocating, you still have to do it.That’s what his high school wrestling coach told him about 35 years ago.