grappler

Each had different roles: Strikers hack at opponents, checkers run into them and knock them down, grapplers throw them to the ground.

In a documentary about his life called “The Sheik,” he said he became attracted to wrestling as a teen and as a grappler in the Iranian Army.

But that conversation led her to enrol at the training academy of Lance Storm - a legendary Canadian grappler widely regarded as one of the most technically gifted wrestlers to have competed.

Despite both men being accomplished grapplers, the first round was conducted entirely on the feet.

Klessinger tracked her down and encouraged some of his grapplers to recruit her.