wrestling champion
Top grappling competitor
A wrestling champion is someone who has won a wrestling competition or holds a championship title in the sport.
The term applies across amateur, collegiate, and professional wrestling: She became a three-time state wrestling champion in high school.
In professional wrestling entertainment, champions hold branded titles and defend them in scripted matches: The wrestling champion retained his belt at the pay-per-view event.
- titleFormal honorific or name
- title matchContest for supremacy
- beltStrap securing trousers
- heavyweightHighest combat weight class
- pinfallPins toppled in bowling
body slam · submission · ring · mat · steel cage · bodyslam · headlock · figure four · suplex · finisher · arena · referee · takedown · grapple · victor · undefeated · rematch · cage
- sports titlesworld record holder
- fightersboxer, boxers, Muhammad Ali, fighter, Mike Tyson
- winnerswinner, winners, victors, victor, conqueror
- medalistsgold medalist, silver medalist, bronze medalist, podium finisher
wrestling championchallenger
One competing against incumbent
contender · underdog · hopeful · rookie · up-and-comer
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