Background
He began wrestling at age six at a Young Men’s Christian Association after-school program and grew up idolizing Olympic wrestler Wayne Wells.
He began wrestling at age six at a Young Men’s Christian Association after-school program and grew up idolizing Olympic wrestler Wayne Wells.
He never lost a dual from seventh grade through the end of high school and finished with a record of 140-0-1.
He is a 3X Olympian. His collegiate record of 121-12-2 contributed to the Cowboys winning two Big Eight titles. Monday was a silver medalist in the 1992 Olympics and placed sixth in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. On March 28, 1997 Monday competed in a mixed martial arts bout defeating John Lewis by TKO in round two at Extreme fighting 4, which was held in Des Moines, Iowa.
Monday has also worked as the wrestling coach with the Blackzilians, a mixed martial arts camp based in Boca Raton, Florida.
He now resides in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
Monday attended Booker T. Washington High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma), where he won four state titles and the 1977 Junior National championship. As an All-American at Ohio State University, Monday won the National Collegiate Athletic Association title in 1984 at 150 pounds. He won the 1989 World Championship and a series of United States of America Freestyle championships in 1985, 1988, 1991, and 1996. He won the Olympic Championship in 1988 in a 2-2 overtime against the Soviet Union"s Adlan Varaev.
He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.