He tore up opponents on the lacrosse field this year, and now he intends to leave adversaries writhing in pain in the wrestling ring.His name is Fred Koury, and he will soon be following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who were wrestling champions before the days of superstar wrestlers like The Rock, Sting and the popular television wrestling shows “Raw” and “Monday Night Nitro.”Koury, a 22-year-old senior majoring in history, helped the OSU Men’s Lacrosse Team win the Big Ten Championship this year. He said he hopes to bring his family ring name “Curry” back into the limelight through professional wrestling.In 1972, his father, Flying Fred Curry, was busy stunning his opponents with the aerial wrestling moves that earned him his nickname and the title Most Popular Wrestler of the Year. These acrobatic maneuvers ran the gamut from flying head scissors to airborne body blocks.”My style was always aerial. I used to get completely perpendicular to my opponent until both of my feet made contact with their chin. My drop kicks were unparalleled,” Curry said.Along with national fame came worldwide wrestling tours, in which he battled everyone from U.S. Champion “The Sheik” to Dusty Rhoades and Bobo Brazil. His photos appeared on the covers of the day’s top wrestling magazines like “Wrestling World,” and “Body Press,” highlighting a career that spanned from 1969 to 1983.Flying Fred wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), the World Championship Wrestling League (WCW) and the National Wrestling Association (NWA).Flying Fred’s father also was a huge star in the wrestling world, bruising his way to fame as one of the sport’s roughest brawlers. A policeman from Hartford, Conn., his career began in the 1930s and he was known by the name Wild Bull Curry.In 1940 Wild Bull fought against Jack Dempsey, one of the greatest boxers of all time. He claimed he could have beaten Dempsey if the crowd hadn’t rushed on stage before the count was over. In 1963, “Wrestling Revue Magazine” referred to him as “Apeman Curry” because he did things like charging ringside tormentors as blood streamed down his face.Now at the age of 54, Wild Bull’s son Flying Fred is ready to pass the wrestling belt down to his son, also named Fred.The younger Koury (soon to be Curry) considers his grandfather Wild Bull his all-time favorite wrestler, but he has a few tricks of his own up his sleeve.”My finish move is called the side winder. It is an inverted drop kick that packs a whole lot of momentum. I am propelled fists forward off the ropes, vertical in the air like a side winder missile,” he said. “Dad has also been teaching me other moves all of my life.”He also said his father never pushed him into the sport. “I approached him,” he said. “I am so excited about it. This past summer something inside of me just clicked…I thought, I really should do this, especially after lacrosse, I needed something and wrestling fit the bill.”A lthough he has not competed yet, he has been training under the watchful eye of his father.He graduated from Worthington Kilbourne High School in 1995, and will graduate this quarter from OSU after four years.Not only is his father Flying Fred coaching his son, he and his friend Mike Weiss are also opening up a new wrestling school in Columbus and starting a new wrestling league.The new school will be called Flying Fred Curry’s Columbus School of Professional Wrestling (WWCW).Classes will teach students everything from basic wrestling movements to learning how to sell an image to the public. They are open to men and women.”This new school will be the stepping stone for many up and coming new wrestlers. We have employed Jeff Turner, the top strength and conditioning coach from the Columbus Crew on our staff, and I will be training students in how to react in the ring. Wrestling can be dangerous business if you are not careful. It is not for a guy who is accident prone,” Flying Fred said.