Royce Alger
Royce Alger ( born March 6, 1965) is a former American professional wrestler. He was 1990 Vice World Champion in free style at middleweight.
Career
Royce Alger began as a teenager with the rings, he completely focused on the free style. During his high school years he was twice champion of Iowa. He was trained at the time of Brad Smith. After his move to the University of Iowa in 1984, he was primarily active as a student wrestler. He denied it for the wrestler Club this university, the Hawkeye WC to 1988 a total of 146 fights, of which he won 131. His coach there was the Olympic champion in 1972 in Munich at lightweight Dan Gable. In 1994 he then moved to the club by David Schultz, the Foxcatcer Wrestling Club.
Already in 1983, Royce Alger American junior champion in free style at welterweight. In the so-called NCAA Championships ( = American. Championships students ), he finished 5th in the 1986 welterweight and won this tournament in 1987 and 1988.
American champion in the seniors he was in the years 1990, 1992 and 1994, respectively at middleweight.
The international career of Royce Alger began in 1983, when he finished at the Junior World Championship ( Juniors = age group up to age 18 ) in Oak Lawn in the weight class up to 70 kg body weight behind the Soviet athlete Alexander Simjagin the 2nd place.
He was first in 1989 Pan-American champion in Mittelgewidht Raul Cascaret Fonseca from Cuba. He celebrated his biggest international success in 1990 at the World Championships in Tokyo. Here he faced at middleweight behind the Czechoslovak surprise winner Jozef Lohyna the 2nd place before Sukhbat Dunsagin from Mongolia and Soviet athletes Awtandil Gogolischwili.
In the years 1991 and 1992 he qualified for the World Cup or the Olympic Games in Barcelona did not succeed. He was thrown out at the so-called Trials ( elimination tournaments) by Kevin Jackson on the 2nd place both times. But in 1992 he won again the title of a Pan-American champion in the middleweight division before the Puerto Ricans Jose E. Betancourt Rosario and the Canadians David Hohl.
As of 1994, Royce Alger assistant coach at the University of Iowa from 1997 until 2000 he was at the same university strength and conditioning coach. Since 2001 he has been coach at St. James Academy and organizes its own responsibility Ringer seminars for beginners and advanced.
From 1997 to 1999, Royce Alger operated as a so-called mixed martial artist.
International success
Note: all the competitions in free style, Middleweight, then to 82 kg body weight
National success
Swell
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
- Journal The Ringer,
- Website of the American Association Ringer