Personally I saw the Real Sports episode ( I believe the first they ever did on wrestling as opposed to water polo and such) and was turly amazed. Then my father-in-law gave me the USA Today article and I hung it in my classroom, this kid is awesome for overcoming something so tragic and the title of his book "No Excuses" sums his life up nicely. In the interview on Real Sports he said "I do not know what it is like to have arms and legs so therefore I feel that I am normal." Whereas Earl Jones was born with two legs but a horse bite, I think, caused him to have an amputation(I am not degrading Earl in any way, shape, or form). Earl was awesome to watch and was also an inspiration because he was a great kid and wrestler.
We do not get many opportunities to have the national media cover our sport and this kid has done amazing things and should be commneded.
Currently he is wrestling at Georgia State I believe for the club team (like K-State and KU) they have no intercollegiate team and therefore he wrestles for the club.
At FHSU I wrestled with a kid named Jason Brown (no relation) who had no hands, he had arms but only two fingers on one hand (pinkie and thumb) and no fingers just a wrist on the other and he was tough, and **** strong too. Anyone who cna overcome a disablity like this deserves to recieve acclamation and rewards!
Coach Brown
ps. Jason wrestled for Bonner Springs I believe in high school and could use that "nub" (his own words)like a hammer on your head and could hit one heck of a firemans!