Dennis Hall

Dennis Hall ( born February 5, 1971) is a former American professional wrestler. He was world champion in 1995 and silver medalist at the 1996 Olympics in Greco-Roman Bantamweight.

Career

Dennis Hall grew up in Plover (Wisconsin ) and started at the age of four years, along with his brother with the rings. Later he attended the Hartford Union High School and the University of Wisconsin, where he continued to operate this sport. In the late 1980s he won two times the student mastery of the state of Wisconsin. In addition, he also wrestled for the team, " Stevens Point " and then went, as he had already recorded first major success, becoming one of the most famous American wrestler clubs, the " Sunkist Kids" in Phoenix. There he was trained by former world champion Steve Fraser, who worked there as a coach, a world-class wrestler in Greco- Roman style.

In 1992, Dennis for the first time the USA Bantamweight Championship. This title he won by the year 2001, a total ten times in a row. His international career began in 1990 with a Ringer 4th place finish at a World Cup tournament in Gothenburg. 1992 Dennis qualified as the winner of the U.S. Trials for the Olympic Games in Barcelona. In Barcelona, ​​he came as a newcomer on the international wrestling mat not yet fully into play and had to settle for eighth place finish.

Much better it was for him already at the World Cup 1994 in Tampere, when he took third place behind Yuri Melnichenko from Kazakhstan and Alexander Ignatenko from Russia bantamweight. At the 1995 World Championships in Prague Dennis could turn the tables and win the world title in front of these wrestlers. It was the biggest success in his career.

At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, he was then bantamweight in the finals again against his old rival Yuri Melnichenko. Despite the vociferous support of the American public for Dennis Hall Melnichenko won just by points, leaving Dennis only the silver medal.

Dennis Hall also participated in the next few years at the World Championships. In 1997, he reached a decent 6th place, but in the years 1998 and 1999, he left early and could not allocate more top positions. In 2000, he failed to qualify for the American team for the Olympic Games in Sydney itself. This him but once again came in 2004 in the newly created class to 55 kg body weight. In Athens, he won the first fight against Peter Svehla from the Czech Republic, but had to retire with a defeat in the second round against Aleksy Wakulenko from the Ukraine, finishing in 14th place.

Then Dennis Hall ended his international career Ringer. He founded a company that organizes Ringer camps for young people and clubs and is particularly active in youth work. He is also manager of Max Emiliano Nowry.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fl = Flyweight, Ba = bantamweight to 55/57/58 kg body weight)

Swell

• Various editions of the magazine " The Ringer " from the years 1990-2004,
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science Leipzig