USA Wrestling has updated its new "Bout of the Week" on USA Wrestling's Members-Only website The featured match this week is the Terry Brands vs. Jesus Wilson semifinal match from 57 kg/125.5 lbs. division at the 1993 World Championships of Freestyle Wrestling in Toronto, Canada. Brands was competing in his first World Championships for the United States, claiming a spot on the U.S. World Team in his first full season of freestyle after a memorable college career for the Univ. of Iowa. Wilson was a young star on the Cuban national team, also competing at his first World Championships event. Brands became a wrestling hero at Iowa, winning a pair of NCAA titles. His twin brother Tom also was a star there, winning the NCAA Championships three times for the Hawkeyes at the next weight class higher. Their aggressive, rough-and-tumble style captured national attention, and the Brands brothers took that intensity into their international freestyle careers. Both brothers were able to capture their weight classes at the 1993 World Team Trials, and were part of a talented U.S. team in Toronto. Brands won his first three matches in Toronto, facing some talented opponents in Bagaudin Umakhanov of Russia, Robert Dawson of Canada and Aurelian Ciufulescu of Romania. Wilson won two matches to make the finals, stopping Lopez of Mexico and Aliabar Dodongeh of Iran. The tension was high during this semifinal match. There was a large group of American wrestling fans who had come up to Toronto to support Team USA. The arena was not air-conditioned, and the heat and humidity in the facility was extremely high, adding to the intensity. But a big factor in the match was the new wrestle-back rules that year. Only losers to a gold-medal finalist were brought back into the wrestle-backs. When Wilson defeated the Iranian wrestler in the quarterfinals, it meant that Wilson needed to beat Brands in order for Dodongeh to get drawn back into the tournament. The large Iranian cheering section was rooting hard for Wilson to win this match, basically rooting against Brands in a very loud fashion. Add to all of that the aggressive styles of both wrestlers, with some extracurricular shots added in, and this was one of the most volatile wrestling showdowns in recent memory. Brands won a close bout over Wilson and moved to the finals, defeating Sang Shim Hyo of Korea for the gold medal. His brother Tom also won a gold medal, as did heavyweight star Bruce Baumgartner. Later, when Iranian World champion Abbas Jadidi was disqualified for a positive drug test, the U.S. had a fourth World champion in 1993 in Melvin Douglas. What made this event so historic was that the United States won the World Team title in Toronto, the first U.S. Senior World Team to ever capture the top team honor. Wilson was drawn back into the wrestle-backs and lost twice, placing sixth. It would prove to be his only World Championships appearance ever. The next year, on the way to New Jersey for an international wrestling event, Wilson was one of three Cuban freestyle wrestlers to defect in the airport in Miami. His career competing for Cuba had ended, but his international wrestling career still had more chapters to be written. Brands became one of the superstars on the U.S. team. He made the 1994 U.S. World Team but did not place. The next year, Brands won his second career World gold medal in 1995 in Atlanta, defeating Canadian star Giuvi Sissauori in a memorable finals bout, by earning penalty points late in the match for the victory. In 1996, Brands was favored to win a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team. However, he lost to rival Kendall Cross in the U.S. Nationals finals. At the Olympic Team Trials, Brands and Cross had one of the most intense finals series of all time, with Cross winning a heated three-match showdown. Cross went on to win the Olympic gold medal. Terry's twin brother Tom also won a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and then retired. Terry Brands had not reached his wrestling goals. He continued to wrestle, but ran into injuries and other challenges in the next quadrennium. In both 1997 and 1999, Brands won the U.S. Nationals but did not compete in the World Championships. Many believed that Brands had finished his career. However, he made a comeback at the 2000 Olympic Trials and earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team, defeating Kerry Bowmans in another memorable series. At the Sydney Olympic Games, Brands finally won his Olympic medal. It was a bronze medal, after a tough loss to Iranian superstar Ali Reza Dabir in the semifinals. After this Olympic achievement, Brands' competitive career was over. Wilson had to go through a full five years in order to receive U.S. citizenship. He continued wrestling in open international tournaments, where he did not need to be a citizen. However, until he achieved citizenship, he could not try out for any U.S. World or Olympic teams. Wilson enrolled at Upper Iowa Univ., a Div. III college, and he excelled, winning NCAA Div. III national titles in 2000 and 2004. Wilson had his citizenship completed by 2001, and placed fifth in the World Team Trials that year. In 2002, Wilson had his best season on the national level, placing fourth in the U.S. Nationals, then qualifying for the finals of the World Team Trials, losing to Eric Guerrero in the championship series. He placed second in the 2003 U.S. Nationals, but never climbed any higher. He competed in the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, placing seventh in the final standings. Wilson did get an opportunity to represent the United States at some major international events. In 2003, he claimed a gold medal at the Pan American Championships. That same year, he won a silver medal for the United States at the Freestyle World Cup. Brands has pursued a coaching career, working assistant stints at the Univ. of Iowa, the Univ. of Nebraska and the Univ. of Montana-Northern. In 2002, he accepted the head coaching job for the Univ. of Chattanooga-Tennessee, and has helped build that program into a competitive and nationally respected team on the NCAA Div. I level. This popular feature will be changed on a regular basis, allowing members to enjoy many of the greatest matches in wrestling history. Posted in the archive section of the Members Only web page was a 2005 Sally Roberts vs. Tela O'Donnell women's freestyle match from Dave Schultz Memorial International Open. Many other entertaining and historic matches are in the archive section for the Bout of the Week. USA Wrestling has done a complete redesign and expansion of its Members-Only website, providing all USA Wrestling members with an impressive new resource stocked with interactive learning tools and entertaining features. The web page is still available for all to view and sample for a short time. This will allow those not familiar with the site to enjoy the contents and become familiar with the features. Once the sampling period ends, this on-line resource is available free of charge only to current members of USA Wrestling, one of the most exciting benefits of joining the organization. At that time, USA Wrestling members will need to enter the number from their 2004-05 membership card into an entry form, and the exciting new Members-Only page will become available to them. 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