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Sims worked delivering groceries for a while but defied doctors orders to start wrestling again. He went to the
Olympic Trials and in the best-of-three finals, Sims beat Chris Saba of Colorado Springs, 5-2, in the first match. Saba won the second match, 4-0. Sims won the final match, 3-1 to make the
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Sim's Father was a freestyle wrestler who competed in the 1972 Olympic trials. As a ninth grader Sims began training with the San
Clemente Jets, an amateur wrestling club where kids from all over California came to learn freestyle and Greco-Roman techniques. He won state championships in 1988 and
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In 1996 he quit wrestling in order to work for a computer company but he missed the competition and began to practise again, finishing third at the 1998 U.S. World Team trials. However, in 1999 while he was training at the U.S. Olympic facilities in
Colorado Springs Sims flew his snowboard off a
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1989 but instead of going to college and continuing a freestyle career, Sims decided to keep wrestling in the Greco style. He became a junior national team member in 1989 and a world team member in 1990.
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mountainside and had to be transported off the mountain by helicopter. His kidney and spleen had been lacerated and his kidney had been nearly severed.
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by decision. In total he fought 11 times in his MMA career, including five fights for
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wrestler and MMA trainer. He is a long time training partner of
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Wrestling at the 2000 Summer
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933:"Wrestling With Past, Sims Off to Sydney"
647:Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Final
1038:Olympic wrestlers for the United States
241:(born October 14, 1971) is an American
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362:Yuki Sasaki
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997:Categories
903:References
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678:Brad Gumm
529:TKO (cut)
335:Evolve MMA
331:Team Quest
266:Evolve MMA
239:Heath Sims
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874:Decision
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272:Wrestling
262:Singapore
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485:5–4–2
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