In this episode Chad talks with three-time Michigan All-American Jeff Catrabone and his son Cam. Cam is a sophomore who recently committed to the University of Michigan after placing high at Super 32. About MatBoss: Created by coaches for coaches, MatBoss for iPad® integrates wrestling stats directly into the video you record for each match, comple…

Shomari Rozier joins Chad for this podcast. Shomari and Chad were college rivals - Chad at UT-Chattanooga and Shomari at Appalachian State (Both were NCAA Qualifiers). In this episode, they look back at their rivalry, the strong bond a rivalry creates and how wrestling has impacted Shomari's life.MatBoss

Michigan State Head Coach Roger Chandler joins the podcast this week. We talk Spartan Wrestling and the positive direction they are heading. Roger also takes a trip down memory lane to talk about some great memories as a competitor. About MatBoss: Created by coaches for coaches, MatBoss for iPad® integrates wrestling stats directly into the video y…

The conclusion of an interview with Jacob Newby. Jacob talks about the events that led to him leaving the Oklahoma St. wrestling program while ranked #1 in the country. About MatBoss: Created by coaches for coaches, MatBoss for iPad® integrates wrestling stats directly into the video you record for each match, completely replacing the need for labo…

Part 1 of an interview with Oklahoma St. all-American Jacob Newby. Jacob talks about the early stages of his career and the desire to be like his idol John Smith. Jacob discusses the tournaments he won and who he beat that gave him the opportunity to wrestle for his idol.MatBoss

A two-time All-American at Michigan, Dr. Airron Richardson has quite a dynamic background. The Ohio native started his collegiate career playing football at Morehouse, a historically black college in Georgia. A chance appearance as a spectator at a wrestling tournament brought Richardson to Michigan. Richardson went into the medical profession, and…

Josh Moore, head coach at Cleveland State University, joins Chad Dennis on the latest episode of The MatBoss Podcast. Coach Moore, who spent time at Kent State before moving over to Cleveland State, talks about the dynamic of building a foundation in Northeast Ohio by recruiting the state and recruiting the region. Moore will also talk about his re…

Cody Cleveland, an All-American at Chattanooga and an assistant coach at The Citadel joins host Chad Dennis on Episode 57 of The MatBoss Podcast. Cleveland talks about his experiences coming from coaching at the high school level and moving into the college ranks, first at the Naval Academy and then at The Citadel, the Military College of South Car…

Tadaaki Hatta, a native of Japan and NCAA champion from Oklahoma State, joins The MatBoss Podcast to talk about the old days. Hatta is a teacher in Ohio and has been a longtime coach internationally and domestically in the international styles of wrestling. Hatta talks about the origins of wrestling in Japan and how his father was the architect for…

Joe Dubuque, a two-time NCAA champion at Indiana and the current associate head coach at Princeton, joins Chad Dennis on Episode 55 of The MatBoss Podcast. We’ll talk about the state of wrestling with the COVID-19 global pandemic and what the impact is on college wrestling, Princeton and the sport overall. Dubuque also looks at the season that was,…

Army West Point head wrestling coach Kevin Ward returns to the MatBoss Podcast to talk about the situation at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York on Episode 54. Host Chad Dennis talks about the ins and outs of what the global pandemic means on college coaching, the recruiting aspects of it as well as the topics in college wre…

The Virtual NCAA Bracket from the 1980s has been released and Chad Dennis and Jason Laflin will go weight-by-weight to talk about this virtual tournament being run via FloArena and as part of the Legends of NCAA Wrestling Facebook Group and the MatBoss Podcast. The MatBoss Podcast is also sponsored by Barbarian Apparel. About MatBoss: Created by co…

With no wrestling, Episode 52 features Chad Dennis and his assistant coaches from Harrison High School in Ohio will chat some wrestling. Join Dennis and Chris Baird and Eric Meyer as they talk all things wrestling in the current climate. About MatBoss: Created by coaches for coaches, MatBoss for iPad® integrates wrestling stats directly into the vi…

Johnny Sebastian, a New Jersey native who recently wrapped up his career at the University of Wisconsin joins Chad Dennis on Episode 51 of The MatBoss Podcast. Sebastian was from the wrestling powerhouse at Bergen Catholic and started his career at Northwestern. After graduating, Sebastian was granted an additional year of eligibility and used it t…

Nick LeForce comes on to The MatBoss Podcast to talk about one of the most polarizing topics in high school wrestling, transferring. LeForce went to four different high schools in four years and has a unique take on the position. LeForce tried to balance the desire to wrestle with battling a broken back on multiple occasions. Host Chad Dennis joins…

In the wake of the cancelation of all NCAA sports for the winter and spring seasons, Chad Dennis gets on the horn for Episode 49 of The MatBoss Podcast to talk with Wyoming head wrestling coach Mark Branch about the situation and the feelings going around his wrestling room and others around the country. About MatBoss: Created by coaches for coache…

Chad Dennis sits down with college buddy and wrestling junkie Jason Laflin as the two host a Facebook Live discussing the upcoming Big Ten Championships at Rutgers. Chad and Jason go weight-by-weight on Episode 48 of The MatBoss Podcast. About MatBoss: Created by coaches for coaches, MatBoss for iPad® integrates wrestling stats directly into the vi…

Chad Dennis of The MatBoss Podcast visits with one of the viral phenoms of the 2019-20 season, Gary Traub of Ohio State. "Gas Tank Gary" as he's been dubbed, has become a fan favorite at heavyweight for his never quit attitude and his late match heroics. Traub, a walk-on from Sycamore High School, earned a scholarship earlier this season and after …

Mike Gillette, the a mind coach and author of Mind Boss, talks with Chad Dennis on Episode 46 of The MatBoss Podcast. Gillette explains his background and how he's taken his experiences and it plotted a course to help people with their own mental hurdles, challenges and improving their mental training. Gillette talks about his military background, …

Purdue assistant coach A.J. Schopp joins host Chad Dennis on the latest edition of The MatBoss Podcast. Schopp, a three-time All-American at Edinboro, is known for his amazing work on top while on the mat. We'll also get his perspective on the things good and bad in college wrestling. About MatBoss: Created by coaches for coaches, MatBoss for iPad®…

Nick Buonocore, the founder of the Reformed Sports Parent, joins The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis to talk about what's going on with youth sports. Buonocore has six kids and they participate in a variety of sports, including wrestling. Buonocore was a member of North Carolina Wesleyan's NCAA Division III baseball national championship team in 1…

Iowa State assistant coach, multiple-time U.S. world team member and two-time NCAA champion Brent Metcalf joins The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis for Episode 43. Metcalf talks about the Cyclones weekend in Las Vegas, what an athlete like David Carr means to the program, recruiting and the impact of social media and video on coaching as well as t…

Joe Johnston has the unique distinction of knocking off two top seeds at an NCAA wrestling championship in consecutive years. The Kansas native and past Iowa Hawkeye joins Chad Dennis on The MatBoss Podcast to talk about his wrestling career, coaching at Missouri and now his new post, coaching at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Spri…

Chad Dennis brings "Dr. Hawkeye" Alex Meyer to talk about the Iowa-Chattanooga dual as well as getting Meyer's perspective on the transfers into the Iowa program, payment of college athletes and some tangents on that. What is the going rate for what athletes can make in the summer? What's the deal with how Iowa does its intrasquad and wrestle-offs?…

Third-year head wrestling coach Keith Gavin from Pittsburgh joins The MatBoss Podcast for Episode 40. On this edition, host Chad Dennis talks about Gavin's prospectus for the 2019-20 season with his Panthers wrestling team and how the squad is looking to push through after a succesful dual season a year ago, but a disappointing NCAA championships. …

On Episode 39 of The MatBoss Podcast, host Chad Dennis returns with his college teammate, Jason Laflin, to talk fantasy wrestling as the two drafted after WrestleStat developed a fantasy wrestling engine for wrestling fans. The fantasy discussion centers around who's going what weights and where and how it's like other sports. How's it work and how…

On Episode 38 of The MatBoss Podcast, host Chad Dennis talks with Iowa alum Alex Meyer. Meyer was a 2016 All-American at Iowa. He's currently enrolled in medical school with a career based around medicine. Meyer chronicles his career coming from Southeast Polk, having to ride the pine at Iowa for several years before breaking into the line-up. Abou…

Four-time All-American Eric Akin joins The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis to talk about his career, how the battles shaped him as a competitor, what it was like competing in an era of stellar U.S. lightweights as well as what it was like to go through his college career as a father and where his focus lives today with coaching kids. About MatBoss…

Chad Dennis returns with Episode 36 of The MatBoss Podcast with 2016 Olympian and coach for RTC South, Daniel Dennis. Dennis talks about what brought him from Iowa City to Chattanooga after his run to Rio ended. He'll also break down what made the Brands brothers unique and creative coaches as well as the uniqueness of the pair outside of the wrest…

Episode 35 of The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis features Michigan assistant coach and three-time All-American Josh Churella. Coach Churella first breaks down the run of sophomore heavyweight Mason Parris and his recent run in Estonia to win a UWW Junior World Championship at 125kg. Churella explains Parris' development during his true freshman y…

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…

Episode 33 of The MatBoss Podcast is with second-year Edinboro head coach Matt Hill. Host Chad Dennis visits with Hill to talk about the first year at the helm, the pride of the Edinboro program and what he's looking forward to as he heads into year two and the first year in the expanded Mid-American Conference, which absorbed the Eastern Wrestling…

Episode 32 of The MatBoss Podcast features Chad Dennis and his high school assistant coach Chris Baird. The main topic of discussion on this episode is the weight class debate in high school wrestling. Should we remove weights, should we shift weights. Two coaches with different viewpoints discuss it. The two also field questions from the live Face…

Miron Kharchilava, founder of Team Miron, joins Chad Dennis on Episode 31 of The MatBoss Podcast. Much of this episode's discussion centers around how Miron got to the United States, his upbringing and depictions of life in the Soviet Union before and after the breakup. He also talks about his son, Carson Kharchla, the nation's top-ranked recruit f…

Episode 30 of The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis is with New Jersey Regional Training Center coach and past U.S. World Teamer Reece Humphrey. The Ohio State alum will talk about the dynamic of an RTC that's based around two Division I schools - Princeton and Rutgers - as well as the recruitment of athletes to the RTC. Humphrey will also dive into…

Indiana native and 2019 U.S. Junior world teamer Brayton Lee joins The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis this week. Lee talks about his redshirt season at Minnesota and his expected weight class next season, but most of the show focuses on Lee earning the spot to represent Team USA in Estonia later this summer at the Junior World Championships. Lee …

Two-time world team member and current North Carolina assistant coach Tony Ramos joins The MatBoss Podcast for Episode 28 with host Chad Dennis. Ramos will talk about the decision to leave his shoes on the mat in Raleigh at the recent U.S. World Team Trials Challenge Tournament as well as a number of other topics including his recruitment to Iowa, …

American University head coach Teague Moore grew up wrestling in rugged and talent-rich Western Pennsylvania. An NCAA champion and three-time All-American, Moore joins Chad Dennis for Episode 27 of The MatBoss Podcast. Among the topics discussed on this episode are Moore's background, why Pennsylvania's been primed to produce so many Division I wre…

Chad Dennis sits down to chat with past Northern Colorado All-American and current UFC lightweight contender Justin "The Highlight" Gaethje on Episode 26 of The MatBoss Podcast. Gaethje talks about how playing multiple sports growing up helped him as a fighter, his thoughts on Ben Askren in the UFC, the relationship with former college coach Ben Ch…

Cornell assistant coach Mike Grey joins Chad Dennis on Episode 25 of The MatBoss Podcast to talk about life at Cornell, coaching with Rob Koll and of course, what it's like coaching two-time NCAA Champion and U.S. Open Champion Yianni Diakomihalis. About MatBoss: Created by coaches for coaches, MatBoss for iPad® integrates wrestling stats directly …

Chad Dennis returns with Episode 24 of The MatBoss Podcast with Jason Laflin to preview the upcoming U.S. Open. About MatBoss: Created by coaches for coaches, MatBoss for iPad® integrates wrestling stats directly into the video you record for each match, completely replacing the need for labor-intensive pencil and paper scoring systems. It's the wr…

Chad Dennis returns with Episode 23 of The MatBoss Podcast with Army West Point head coach Kevin Ward. Coach Ward's a Tennessee native who worked through his college career at Oklahoma State before getting into college coaching at Division II Ouachita Baptist in Arkansas. He's now currently the head coach at the Division I level About MatBoss: Crea…

Tyler Brooks, the Director of Officiating and Sports Management for the Ohio High School Athletic Association and associate A.D. at Anderson High School, joins Chad Dennis and the MatBoss Podcast to talk about the changes forthcoming with the state wrestling tournament in Ohio. Brooks is the administrator for the sport of wrestling at the high scho…

Mark Branch, head coach of the University of Wyoming, joins MatBoss and host Chad Dennis to talk about recruiting, youth sports and some of the inherent difficulties within the wrestling landscape of the state. Branch also compares and contrasts situations from Oklahoma State and Wyoming. Branch also explains how some of the rules work as he's spen…

Episode 20 of The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis talks with Brownsburg High School state championship head coach Darrick Snyder. Dennis talks with Snyder about the system Brownsburg has in Indiana and the two talk ideas on the dynamics of navigating the systems in Ohio and Indiana. About MatBoss: Created by coaches for coaches, MatBoss for iPad® …

Episode 19 of The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis brings the return of college roommate Jason Laflin to talk about the recently drawn NCAA Division I college pairings. About MatBoss: Created by coaches for coaches, MatBoss for iPad® integrates wrestling stats directly into the video you record for each match, completely replacing the need for labo…

Episode 18 of The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis features one of the greats in the sport of wrestling, Alan Fried. A legend in Ohio, Fried is the first, and only, wrestler in U.S. history to win four Junior National freestyle titles. A three-time finalist at Oklahoma State, Fried talks about his days growing up in Ohio, coaching at the middle sch…

Episode 17 of The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis features the head coach of the Buffalo Bills, Sean McDermott. Coach McDermott is a former wrestler who remains a fan of the sport and has made that abundantly clear. He brought in Jordan Burroughs to speak with his team last season. McDermott talks about growing up wrestling in the Foxcatcher youth…

Chad Dennis and The MatBoss Podcast returns to talk with former Kent State wrestler and current Director of the Ohio Athletic Committee, Jared Opfer. Much of the discussion centers around middle school and elementary wrestling, the Ohio Junior High and Elementary state tournaments, as well as topics regarding retention and interest in the sport of …

Episode 15 talks with the always interesting Dylan Palacio. A two-time All-American at Cornell, Palacio's personality has been on display since his wrestling days in high school. At Cornell, Palacio was a two-sport athlete, also playing soccer. Recently, Palacio has developed a following on various social media platforms and on this episode, he tal…