Joe Dubuque
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"Joe Dubuque" is an American Amateur Wrestling/amateur wrestler commonly referred to as "The Champ". He was originally from New Jersey.

Dubuque attended Glen Ridge High School in Glen Ridge, New Jersey/Glen Ridge, Essex County, New Jersey, where he was a two-time state champion wrestler. Competing for Indiana Hoosiers/Indiana University, Dubuque won an National Collegiate Athletic Association/NCAA Division I wrestling title at 125 pounds in 2005, beating Kyle Ott of the Illinois Fighting Illini/University of Illinois 2-0.

In 2006 he won the same title, beating Troy Nickerson of Cornell Big Red wrestling/Cornell University. Dubuque was an All-American in 2004, wrestling back from a preliminary round pin.

Dubuque also won two New Jersey state wrestling championships in high-school and won the 119 pound national high school wrestling championship in 2001. Dubuque is the first wrestler in Indiana University history to be a two-time national champion.

Dubuque was the assistant wrestling coach for Hofstra Pride/Hofstra University wrestling team from 2007-2009.

Dubuque returns to Bloomington to be the assistant coach for Indiana University for the 2010 season.

For the 2012 season Dubuque has returned to New Jersey to be an assistant Coach at Princeton University

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I hardly ever get nervous. I get in the spotlight and I just have fun. I see those people, I feed off their energy. It's just great. I love being in the spotlight. I love being on top.

It was real hard. I worked hard all year long and just to have a string of injuries toward the end of the year and one keeping me out, it was real tough watching my teammates wrestle out there without me. But I think it was a good thing that happened to me; it helped me to work harder.

I've already done it. Right now, it's fun. I'm just having fun. I'm ending my career and having fun doing it. These guys, they've got another year. They want to win it so they can have fun next year.

I want to be the best in everything I do and I want to work hard. That's what drives me.

It's a pretty big rivalry. We're both returning All-Americans. We're both the top lightweights. It's always a good match when we wrestle.

I take losses in a positive way. I learn from losses. I dwell on them for about 10 minutes, and then that's it.

It's no slouch schedule. You got eight dual meets and it's probably going to be the eight hardest dual meets of the year.

My high school coach convinced me to go. He said it's basically like a paid vacation and I was like 'OK.' I came out here and knew it was the right place.

A lot of wrestlers will tell you they hate losing more than they like winning. It's that nature I don't want to lose.