Mark Schultz Olympic Wrestling Champion, Motivational Speaker Home main_menu Home Foxcatcher Movie Wrestling Résumé Links Contact Return to Content Mark Schultz – Wrestling Résumé Career Highlights: Winner of UFC IX by TKO over Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge. Mark retired with an MMA record of 1-0-0. 1981, 1982, 1983 NCAA Champion. 1982 World Cup Champion. Defeated Vagit Kasibekov, the 1982 Tblisi Champion, 7-2. 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 U.S. Open Champion. 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist. Disqualified 30 seconds into his first match against the #1 ranked wrestler in the world European Champion Resit Karabajak. Mark and Dave Schultz were assigned a special referee to watch them the rest of the tournament. 1985 World Champion. Mark was the only 1984 Olympic Champion to win the 1985 World Championships. This silenced critics saying Mark’s Olympic Gold medal was tainted by the Soviet block boycott. 1987 World Champion. This made Mark the first American to win the Olympics and 2 additional World Titles. 1991 Entered the Guinness Book of World Records for most U.S. World Titles. 1995 Inducted as a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. 2000 Inducted in the California Hall of Fame. 2010 Inducted into the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame with his brother Dave. The Schultz brothers won more U.S. Open, NCAA, World and Olympic titles than any american brothers in history. 2013 “Lifetime Service Award” by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Details in Chronological Order 1975 Northern California (15-16 year old age group) All-Around gymnastics champion. 1975 Southern Peninsula Athletic League All-Around gymnastics champion. Mark won every event. When judges learned Mark was only in the 9th grade they refused to give Mark his gold medals. The Palo Alto High coach Ed Hart and the team unanimously protested the decision and refused to accept any of their medals. 1976 Mark quit gymnastics and started wrestling for Ashland High School in Ashland, Oregon. Even though Mark won 10 out of 11 challenge matches at 130 lbs to earn his varsity spot, his dismal 4-6 record caused the coach to replace him citing an “inability to win in competition”. Mark complained to Ashland High’s Principal that he earned his spot under rules. The Principal agreed with Mark and Mark was restored to his varsity spot. However, the complaint damaged the relationship with the coach beyond repair. 2 weeks prior to the end of the first semester Mark got in a fight, broke his hand, and dropped out of school. Mark transferred back to Palo Alto High School but was declared ineligible the rest of the season. 1977-78 Mark grew 30 lbs in one year and wrestled at 154. Pounds were added each month until the weight was 159 lbs by year’s end. He went through the entire regular season without winning one tournament, even a local 16-team tournaments. His best finish was 3rd at the Monta Vista Invitational. At the end of the year he won the league, the region, the Central Coast Section defeating the defending champion Joe Gillory from James Lick High School and Mark was named Outstanding Wrestler. A week later, Mark competed in the California State Championships at San Diego State University. During the tournament Mark defeated 3 undefeated wrestlers in a row to win the California State Championships, the largest state tournament in the country with about 1000 schools represented. Mark went from gymnastics to winning a California State Wrestling title in only 16 months. This was so miraculous to Mark he started to believe in God. 1978-79 Mark received a full scholarship from Coach Dave Auble to UCLA Finished the season 18-8, took 3rd in the PAC 8, qualified for the NCAA’s, lost his first NCAA match to N. Carolina and was eliminated. That year he watched Mark Churella defeat Mike DeAnna in the NCAA finals. 1979 Dave and Mark both make the Junior World Team in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Their coach was Jim Humphrey the current assistant coach at Oklahoma University. 1979-1980 Mark and Dave decide to leave UCLA due to conflicts between Head Coach Dave Auble and assistant coach Chris Horpel. They transferred to Oklahoma University and redshirted. 1980 Mark went from unranked to ranked 2nd by defeating the #1 ranked wrestler in the country Mike DeAnna 8-1 in the finals of the Great Plains. A spiritual experience occurred to Mark in the middle of the match as though the secrets of wrestling were revealed from above. 1981 NCAA Champion. In 1980-81 season Mark lost 3 times. Twice to 1980 NCAA runner-up Perry Hummel and a once to 1979 NCAA runner-up Mike DeAnna. He avenged both losses in the 1981 NCAA’s by defeating Hummel in overtime in the semi’s 4-4, 1-0, and DeAnna 10-4 in the finals. The Hummel win clinched the team’s runner-up status. 1982 NCAA Champion. Mark moved up a weight to 177 lbs to challenge 2-time NCAA Champion Ed Banach and attempt to stop him from becoming the first 4-time NCAA Champion in history. Mark had 2 losses that year. The first was a defensive pin call to some freshman by a University of Kentucky referee with a reputation for calling defensive pins for his hometown team. Mark’s other loss came in the finals of the Midlands Championships to Ed Banach 5-4. Mark met Banach next in the Iowa-Oklahoma dual where Mark defeated Banach in “a real barn burner” by taking him down with 2 seconds left to win 10-9. Mark and Banach met for the 6th time in the 1982 NCAA finals. Mark won 16-8 and was voted NCAA Outstanding Wrestler. 4 NCAA titles were represented at 177 this year. 2 titles by Banach, one by Mark, and one by Matt Reisss. The Schultz-Banach match is widely considered the greatest match in NCAA history and stopped Banach from becoming the first 4-time NCAA Champion in history. Banach moved up a weight 190 lbs the next year, won his 3rd NCAA title, then won gold at the 1984 Olympics without a close match. 1982 World Cup Champion. Helped the US beat the Russians for the first time in history. 1983 NCAA Champion Set the Oklahoma University record for most wins in an undefeated season going 27-0. 1984 U.S. Open Champion. Defeated Don Shuler in the finals 7-2 of the U.S. Open and the Olympic Trials. 1985 U.S. Open Champion. Mark moved up a weight to 198 lbs to challenge 1985 World Champion Bill Scherr and won 5-4. At the 1985 World Championships Mark won at 180.5 lbs and Scherr won at 198 lbs. They were the only two 1985 U.S. World champions. 1985 Super Champion Title Match Champion. Beat 2-time World Champion Taram Dzgoev 5-0. 1985 Wrestling Masters Magazine International Wrestler of the Year. 1986 U.S. Open Champion. Defeated 2-time NCAA Champion and NCAA O. W. Mike Sheets. 7-6 1987 U.S. Open Champion. Defeated 2-time NCAA Champion Melvin Douglas 12-2. Melvin went on to win a world title. 1983, 1985, 1987 National Sports Festival Champion. Defeated NCAA Champions Duane Goldman, Jim Scherr. and Rico Chipiarrelli respectively. 1987 USA Wrestling Athlete of the Year 1987 Sullivan Award Nominee From 1982 to 1987 Make made 6 consecutive U.S. World and Olympic Teams. Mark was undefeated in the U.S. for 5 years. 1996 Winner by TKO in a new cage fighting sport called called the Ultimate Fighting Championships 9. Fighting with bare knuckles and advertised as No-Holds-Barred there were 3 rules, no biting, eye gouging, and kicking if you chose to wear shoes. Mark defeated 4th degree black belt and UFC Runner-up Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge. Goodridge was 6 inches taller and 50 lbs heavier. Mark retired after this match due to demands by BYU president Merrill Batemen. The Schultz brothers are the only U.S. brothers in history to win World and Olympic gold. Coaching and Administration Head Coach Brigham Young University. BYU teams had the highest GPA in the nation 3 times and 2nd highest 3 times. Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. Coach of the University World Team Head Coach for the State of Queretaro, Mexico.
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