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After inking a deal with Nike, Aaron sat down with Takedown Wrestling for an interview. Check out what the champ had to say. 

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Aaron, fighting at 145.5 pounds, won his first place match against Zain Retherford 7-0 at the U.S. Open Championships in Las Vegas, NV last week. You can track down the rest of Tony Rotundo's gallery of Aaron's win at wrestlersarewarriors.com. Congratulations to Aaron on his most recent step to the top!

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PLOVDIV, Bulgaria – 2013 Cadet World champion Aaron Pico won a gold medal in men’s freestyle at the Petko Sirakov – Ivan Iliev Junior International over the weekend. Pico won three matches on the way to the title at 66 kg/145.5 lbs., two by technical fall. In the championship finals, he defeated Russia’s Junior National silver medalist Emi Umarpashaev by an impressive 17-6 technical fall. In the quarterfinals, Pico beat Mihail Georgiev of Bulgaria by technical fall.  His semifinal win was over Abdumuslim Mukhidinov of Azerbaijan, 6-0. Mukhidinov was a 2013 Cadet World Champion and a European Cadet champion as well. In 2013, Pico was the Cadet World champion at 63 kg, while Mukhidinov won the Cadet World title at 69 kg.  Pico has been competing and training overseas on a regular basis this winter. In February, Pico won all of his matches against Junior athletes as part of the Cerro Pelado International tour to Cuba.

— via teamusa.org

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Coach Al Fontes discusses Aaron Pico and his decision to pursue his Olympic dreams.

"Aaron Pico is by far one of the best wrestlers ever to come out of California... his wrestling aptitude is at the senior level at the world level..."

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Doing some testing at the Olympic Training Center 

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Custom new Pico mouthpiece!

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Recently Aaron Pico took a trip to Cuba for some training in preparation for the US National Championships. Despite his busy schedule he still found some time to take in some sites.

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Aaron Pico: On Winning

"There’s nothing or anything like winning. I mean the higher you go, the moment just gets better and better —  the things you do, the things you and your family do, all the sacrifices you make, leads up to that moment and it only lasts so long and in the heat of the moment you win and you know it only lasts so long and then its like, what’s next? It’s a short moment and you know you gotta enjoy for as long as you can."

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Here at Dethrone, we celebrated the launch of the new website by introducing the rest of the world to Aaron Pico. As soon as we launched, the Twitter-verse went nuts with support! #RoadToRio #AaronPico

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Who is Aaron Pico?

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Coach Bardomov from Team Russia hanging out with the Pico family on Superbowl Sunday.

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Cerro Pelado Wrestling Room in Havana, Cuba with Jason Welch