Mike Kahn

[Str8DBLz]

RIP champ

Harrisburg’s Mike Khan remembered as a champion, a trend-setter, and a larger-than-life wrestler who insisted on winning

Khan was a two-time state wrestling champion as a 103-pounder in 1996 and '97, a three-time state finalist, an NHSCA national champion, and a Fargo national champion.

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[SWPA]

RIP

Willie was in both of those brackets.

 

[7brwnpsu]

I worked with Mike's mother, she was based in Harrisburg and I in Pittsburgh. She enjoyed talking about Mike's success in high school.

 

[smalls103]

wow. that's sad. haven't seen him since hs but we were pals back then. i heard he went on to be a boxer.

twice i would have hit him in the next round in hershey but i lost the match before - to andy migyanko in '96 semi's and to harley anderson in '97 quarters. he won both years. in '97 he won a crazy rideout match in the finals over Troy Minarovic who i beat the week before in regionals. I think Greg Jones was in the bracket that year, too.

 

[Bob_Anderson]

Sad day for me. I only wrestled in 7th and 8th grade at Swatara Jr. High in Harrisburg, but Mike was on my team both years. In 8th grade, Mike and I were a tandem at 100/105. Coach Wolf would let Mike take out the better wrestler and I would take the other guy. He went on to Harrisburg High and I went to CD East, but I always followed his career. Mike never grew after 7th grade. He wrestled 100 from 7th - 12th grade. You could tell from the day he stepped on the mat in 7th grade that he was a different animal. I remember the stories of him running on the weekends to train. One specific time coach Wolf told us that Mike ran from his home in Steelton down to Elizabethtown. The rest of us were probably watching football on TV and he was out busting his ass in 8th grade.

 

[7brwnpsu]

He was a competitor. Too light to successfully wrestle in college, he turned to club boxing. I Don't think he had an off switch.

 

[Str8DBLz]

I'll never forger the announcer always saying Mike Kahn this is your last warning to report to mat # whatever in hershey. He had lost in the 1st round of states and wrestled back to take 3rd. Great kid and awesome athlete.

 

[Raw Daddy]

wow. that's sad. haven't seen him since hs but we were pals back then. i heard he went on to be a boxer.

twice i would have hit him in the next round in hershey but i lost the match before - to andy migyanko in '96 semi's and to harley anderson in '97 quarters. he won both years. in '97 he won a crazy rideout match in the finals over Troy Minarovic who i beat the week before in regionals. I think Greg Jones was in the bracket that year, too.

The match with Migyanko in the finals may have been even better. He had a showmanship about him.

 

[smalls103]

i was never ridden by anyone in my career except Migyanko in the state semi. he rode the tar outta me.

 

[nitlion6]

i was never ridden by anyone in my career except Migyanko in the state semi. he rode the tar outta me.

You should have stayed after practice doing whistle starts with Matt Brown until you got out.
An hour and a half later, nobody could ride Q.

 

[82bordeaux]

i was never ridden by anyone in my career except Migyanko in the state semi. he rode the tar outta me.

 

[Str8DBLz]

Willie never looked like that

 

[Eyecatcher]

i was never ridden by anyone in my career except Migyanko in the state semi. he rode the tar outta me.

He sure was gassed by the end of the third, though.

 

[STAND with PRIDE]

I know what Im doing tonight

 

[nittinsc]

I know what Im doing tonight

Getting ridden?

 

[amattaro]

i was never ridden by anyone in my career except Migyanko in the state semi. he rode the tar outta me.

WPIAL rules, dum dum.

Did Kahn bring his kid on to the podium one year or am I making that up?

 

[amattaro]

Somebody did gods work and put damn near every PIAA final on YouTube, back to the 80s. BYERS ON THE CALL!

 

[STAND with PRIDE]

Getting ridden?

Will report back in tomorrow

 

[dunkej01]

This is a HOF reply post. I would like to believe more people would have given it a like but their significant others monitor/use their accounts.

My gawd.

 

[lookleft goright]

Would it be safe to say that a rag dolling is in her near future?

 

[dunkej01]

Would it be safe to say that a rag dolling is in her near future?

More safe to say, it wasnt her first time in the saddle

#itswhatwedo

 

[smalls103]

WPIAL rules, dum dum.

Did Kahn bring his kid on to the podium one year or am I making that up?

yes, he did. i think it was his sr. year. i'm not sure but that definitely happened one of the years he won it.

 

[raslen007]

Somebody did gods work and put damn near every PIAA final on YouTube, back to the 80s. BYERS ON THE CALL!

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Ah, the good old days when you could get a lunger due to shoe lace issues.

 

[El-Jefe]

Somebody did gods work and put damn near every PIAA final on YouTube, back to the 80s. BYERS ON THE CALL!

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Open for Khan ...

Stay for Jeremy Hunter (119) and Jamarr Billman (130).

 

[kevin310]

Open for Khan ...

Stay for Jeremy Hunter (119) and Jamarr Billman (130).

I did, enjoyed both of those, even watched part 2 (145-275) a blast from the past watching Coy Wire give up 40-50 lbs (it seemed) at 275.

 

[smalls103]

Buffalo Bills safety Coy Wire! story was he moved up to 275 because his buddy was the kid that won 189 (name escapes me rn).

 

[kevin310]

Buffalo Bills safety Coy Wire! story was he moved up to 275 because his buddy was the kid that won 189 (name escapes me rn).

Dave Heckard 189 Cumberland Valley ??

 

[smalls103]

i think that's right. can't quite recall the details. something like that though. i think Wire was only up at 275 b/c of some friendship (that was what i heard back in the day). b/c his SR year he went down.

idk. i'm getting old.

 

[Raw Daddy]

Sad, going from memory here but that is 3 kids that I know of that won that day but have recently died. Shapert and Cridge being the others.

 

[Raw Daddy]

i think that's right. can't quite recall the details. something like that though. i think Wire was only up at 275 b/c of some friendship (that was what i heard back in the day). b/c his SR year he went down.

idk. i'm getting old.

Coy Wire is definitely on the best small guys at heavy at Hershey list, but my all time great was Matt Feast. He looked like he wouldn’t have to cut at 189. Once 215/220 came in it got rid of all of that, but I remember some matches with Feast and thinking there is no way and next thing you know he was taking the guy down.

 

[Raw Daddy]

yes, he did. i think it was his sr. year. i'm not sure but that definitely happened one of the years he won it.

Not even my favorite 103 pound champ holding a new baby... mine is Billy Spencer (all 4 8 of him) who beat a kid from an unnamed school near NJ border and then went and grabbed his child.

 

[dunkej01]

i think that's right. can't quite recall the details. something like that though. i think Wire was only up at 275 b/c of some friendship (that was what i heard back in the day). b/c his SR year he went down.

idk. i'm getting old.

True story.

 

[STAND with PRIDE]

Ah, the good old days when you could get a lunger due to shoe lace issues.

I heard that JB has a deal with Wilson to market socks that refuse to stay up.

 

[smalls103]

Sad, going from memory here but that is 3 kids that I know of that won that day but have recently died. Shapert and Cridge being the others.

Bruce Cridge died? ugh. man that kid was a horse.

 

[mmmkay]

i think that's right. can't quite recall the details. something like that though. i think Wire was only up at 275 b/c of some friendship (that was what i heard back in the day). b/c his SR year he went down.

idk. i'm getting old.

Coy had quit wrestling to focus on lifting to put on weight for football. He had gotten injured wrestling in the summer and didn't want to risk his Stanford football career. Halfway through the season coach convinced him to come back out. He was well under 200 but he wouldn't wrestle 189 due to his friendship with Heckard and wouldn't go lower due to football so 275 it was.

 

[smalls103]

thank you. love the history. it, of course, was my era. just a great time for wrestling in PA.

 

[crazytoadie]

Sad, going from memory here but that is 3 kids that I know of that won that day but have recently died. Shapert and Cridge being the others.

After watching the Wire-Gilliam match, I was curious whether Wire won as a senior and came across an article that Gilliam passed in 2007.

 

[danoftw]

I think Wire dropped weight and lost to Rob Rohn in the finals the next year

 

[amattaro]

Bruce Cridge died? ugh. man that kid was a horse.

Two of Robbie Waller’s three career losses, I believe.