{"id":180375,"date":"2014-09-29T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=180375"},"modified":"2014-09-29T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T18:00:07","slug":"group-plans-revive-wrestling-cnmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/group-plans-revive-wrestling-cnmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Group plans to revive wrestling in CNMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_180383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180383\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"180383\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Wrestiing-pix-Alvarez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Wrestiing-pix-Alvarez.jpg\" alt=\"Alvarez\" width=\"208\" height=\"299\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180383\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alvarez<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nTrench Tech founder Cuki Alvarez said the same group that has promoted wrestling is planning to revive the Olympic sport in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez, whose now into mixed martial arts by organizing events and training fighters, said that he\u2019s been talking with Joe Ocampo and Jason Tarkong to once again promote Greco-Roman and freestyle forms of wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>He added that some of MMA\u2019s moves\u2014like grappling and submission fighting\u2014take its roots from wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen is the only question that we have to settle since we have to start again somewhere. A lot of MMA fighters here first learned about grappling and submission, which are the basic moves of wrestling,\u201d said Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez, who also competed in wrestling tournaments before shifting to MMA, said they are willing to form a team that will compete in various off-island competitions once the sport returns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already have a stable of MMA fighters ready and they are well versed in wrestling. I think it will be an easy transition and we just have to learn some of the rules and apply it during competition,\u201d Alvarez added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce wrestling finds its way back to Saipan, we can definitely get a handful of guys in different weight classes. And I\u2019m sure coach Joe [Ocampo] will come back out and be happy to help explain all the rules and regulations of the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocampo is busy with work at the Transportation Security Administration at the Francisco B. Ada-Saipan International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoach Joe is a busy man but he drops by at the Trench Tech Gym to check up on us. It is just a matter of timing and I believe everything will fall into place.\u201d (Jon Perez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trench Tech founder Cuki Alvarez said the same group that has promoted wrestling is planning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":180383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,287,199,595],"class_list":["post-180375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi","tag-jason-tarkong","tag-sport-2-2","tag-trench-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}