Wrestling icon Wayne Terry to be inducted into National Hall of Fame

It started from nothing, really. Just an idea hatched by a couple of motivated wrestling enthusiasts that, with a handful of local kids, they might start a kids’ folkstyle wrestling club.

Flash forward 36 years later, and the Washington Little Guy Wrestling League — all 97 teams and 4,377 kids from three states — held its season-ending tournament on the expansive, 32,000 square foot floor of the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena.

“It’s just an amazing thing that’s happened,” Wayne Terry said of the evolution of the league.

On June 1, Terry, a 39-year U.S. Air National Guard veteran and co-founde...

 

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