But apart from his immense track record in wrestling, Aleksandr Karelin is all the more famous for the dreaded “Karelin lift”, a wrestling maneuver so unbelievable that many dispelled it as a ...

For those in wrestling, it wasn’t difficult to put Gardner’supset into perspective: it was the biggest in the history of thesport. Karelin was unbeaten in international competition ...

There is no Milo of Croton of squash, no Heracles. There's not even an Alexander Karelin, the Russian wrestler who was a four-time Olympian. Karelin's strength was legendary. Born in the ...

SYDNEY, Sept. 27 -- Super heavyweight wrestler Alexander Karelin, 33, is a terrifying, glowering tower of a man, a 286-pound Greek statue, wide at the shoulders and narrow at the hips. Coming into ...

NPR's Michele Kelemen has a report from Podolsk on Russian sports hero Alexander Karelin. This giant of the Greco-Roman wrestling scene is going for his fourth Olympic gold in Sydney next month.

Ask Alexander Karelin to name his greatest challenge, and he will tell you about the time he outwrestled a refrigerator that weighed nearly twice as much as he did. Clamping a bear hug on the ...

He proved that Alexander Karelin isn't perfect -- and he won a gold medal that virtually nobody in the world thought he could win. American Rulon Gardner, left, will go down in wrestling history ...

Do you remember the 6'4" 300 lb Olympic wrestler turned UFC commentator named Jeff Blatnik? Karelin threw him around like a rag doll. Growing up I thought of Karelin as the real life Ivan Drago.

Humans have even less of a chance against Karelin, 32, a super-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler who has won gold medals in each of the past three Summer Games. In fact, the Siberian native has ...

Wrestlers have long been prone to nicknames ... Taylor — there was 12-time champ Alexander “The Russian Bear” Karelin. Fort LeBoeuf features a wrestler with a well-known nickname ...

U.S. wrestler Rulon Gardner took home the gold in 2000 when he beat Russia’s Aleksandr Karelin, who had been undefeated for 13 years.