The ILLINI Wrestling Blog with Over 200,000 YouTube Views!

The ILLINI Wrestling Blog and Forum and Beyond recently exceeded 200,000 views on YouTube. All of those views are advertisement-free yet chock full of rich O&B goodness and only half the calories. 

A milestone!

But after taking many much-deserved bows, perhaps we at the ILLINI Wrestling Blog and Forum and Beyond should also give some of the credit to this so-and-so:



And what's-his-name:




And here's Mike Something or Other:




These are Men who do things that other Men (and Women) want to see. What sets them apart from the rest of the wrestling world is that they are doing ILLINI things, some of the most spectacular ILLINI things you will ever see, and all against elite competition.

We've even got playlists that include "Great ILLINI Takedowns" and "ILLINI Legends." 








Check them out! 

And if you have suggestions for the next great ILLINI video, send them to me on Twitter or Instagram or email me at thetortmaster@yahoo.com. 


HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND GO ILLINI!!!

Comments

  1. Huff HallDecember 25, 2022 at 6:01 AM

    Congrats Greg so glad you steered me here from the other site which turned into a cesspool. Enjoy each and every one of the articles

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  2. Greg GermanDecember 25, 2022 at 8:43 AM

    Thank you, Huff! I still want that cesspool to work because it is so important to ILLINOIS Wrestling as well as ILLINI Wrestling. I want to republish stuff over there, but it is so hard and so frequently offline.

    I remember there were HUGE sections on the forum dealing with high school's three divisions. IKWF as well. These were so busy. I miss that.

    There were/are unmentionable parts of that forum which was/is a true cesspool, Haha! Wink, wink.

    Happy Holidays to you, my friend!

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