USA Wrestling has secured a one-year sponsorship deal with Elk Grove Village – considered the United States’ largest contiguous industrial park – and the Makers Wanted campaign, it has been announced.

Uzbekistan's Davit Modzmanashvili has been banned for eight years after he was stripped of his Olympic wrestling silver medal for doping following the re-analysis of his sample from London 2012.

Wrestling World Championships will not take place this year and the United World Wrestling (UWW) Congress has been delayed until 2021, both because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Japan Wrestling Federation has announced it will not send athletes to next month’s World Championships in Serbia.

The British Wrestling Association (BWA) has appointed experienced administrator Steven Esom as its new chair, following the departure of Jem Lawson.

USA Wrestling insists it will not put its athletes in "harm’s way" after deciding against sending a team to Belgrade to compete at the 2020 World Wrestling Championships over "great" COVID-19 concerns.

Canadian Commonwealth Games wrestling champion Korey Jarvis has announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 34.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Iranian and Serbian Wrestling Federations just weeks after the execution of Navid Afkari.

United World Wrestling (UWW) President Nenad Lalovic is "cautiously optimistic" over the sport's return after committing to staging the World Championships in December.

United World Wrestling (UWW) says it has contacted the Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation to gather more information about payments made to the governing body's former President Raphael Martinetti and his wife.

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the former United States acting director of national intelligence have joined calls to ban Iran from the Olympics after the execution of wrestling champion Navid Afkari.

Dates for the three remaining continental Olympic qualifiers have been confirmed by United World Wrestling (UWW), as part of an update to the sport's international calendar.

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced sanctions against officials involved in the execution of wrestler Navid Afkari in Iran.

United World Wrestling (UWW) will distribute a questionnaire to its members to gauge their interest in competing at the World Championships in Belgrade in December.