Wrestling World Cup

Wrestling World Cup
StatusActive
GenreSports event
Date(s)Various
FrequencyAnnual
Location(s)Various
Inaugurated1973 (1973)
Organised byUnited World Wrestling
PeopleJoe Scalzo[1][2]

Wrestling World Cup is an international wrestling competition among teams representing member nations of the United World Wrestling (UWW) the sport's global governing body. The cups have been conducted by FILA (the UWW predecessor) every year since the 1973 tournament. The World Cup began as a dual-meet competition for the top teams on each continent, but now features the top teams in the rankings of the previous year's world championships.[3]

Two individual competitions under the same name were held in 1956 and 1958 before establishing the current World Cup comeptition in 1973.[4] Besides that, the UWW had another competition called the Individual World Cup as a replacement event for the 2020 World Cup Championships.

  1. ^ Joseph R. Scalzo was the wrestling coach at the University of Toledo and later an AAU executive, who was instrumental in promoting Toledo, Ohio, as a host city for 17 annual editions of Freestyle Wrestling World Cup.
  2. ^ Golubev, V. L. (1981). Soslan Andiyev [Сослан Андиев (1981 год, Москва, Физкультура и спорт)] (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport.
  3. ^ "Japan Qualifies for 2012 FS World Cup, 1st Time Since 1998". Japan Wrestling. 30 November 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  4. ^ "UWW Hall of Fame Joe Scalzo". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 12 December 2022.