Kevin Jackson
| Kevin Jackson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 25, 1964 (age 52) Highland Falls, New York, U.S. |
| College | Iowa State University |
| Status | Coach of Iowa State University |
| Other names | "Lightning" |
| Nationality | American |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 199 lb (90 kg; 14.2 st) |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 6 |
| Wins | 4 |
| By submission | 4 |
| Losses | 2 |
| By submission | 2 |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
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Kevin Andre Jackson (born November 25, 1964 in Highland Falls, New York) is an American Olympic gold medalist wrestler and former professional mixed martial arts competitor. After retiring from active competition he is currently serving as the head wrestling coach at Iowa State University, having been hired in 2009 after Cael Sanderson moved to Penn State University. Before joining Iowa State, Jackson was a four-time All-American, first for Louisiana State and then for Iowa State, where he was the NCAA runner-up in 1987.
As a wrestler, he was an Olympic gold medalist freestyle wrestler, and a former mixed martial arts fighter. He won a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics. After retiring from competition, in 2001, Jackson became the U.S. national freestyle coach, based at the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs.
The native of Lansing, Mich., won two state high school championships for Eastern High School before becoming a Junior National Greco-Roman wrestling champion.
As a college wrestler, he attended LSU and earned All-America honors three times before the school dropped the sport. He transferred to Iowa State for his senior year and captained the Cyclones’ last NCAA championship team (1987), earning another All-America award with an NCAA runner-up finish and registering a 30-3-1 record.
In 1992 he won a gold medal in wrestling and was invited to join "Team Foxcatcher", but was let go the next year when John du Pont started getting paranoid delusions and did not want anything black in his estate, from cars to horses to people. Soon after, Jackson won two Pan American Games titles and was a member of World Championship teams for the United States in both 1993 and 1995. He won three U.S. National Titles and placed second five times. Jackson also became the first American to win the prestigious Takhti Cup (1998) in Tehran, Iran. During his post-collegiate competitive career, Jackson also assisted with the Cyclone Wrestling Club (1989–92) and volunteered with the Arizona State (1997) program.
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