You say, “If more weight classes aren’t added then merge some of them” then you say, ““I never said anything about having less weight classes.”

Just don’t get into conversations you know nothing about, maybe?

Three time state champ. Wrestled D1 where I started as a freshman. Team got cut due to title IX so club wrestled a couple years and placed top 4 each year. Not amazing but i know what im talking about.

I don’t know what an SJW is, but intellectual integrity? I refuted your, “whereas every wrestler he’s ever faced probably had never come close to wrestling someone with his “physics” before??” comment with objective facts. But you can’t argue aginst that, so you go into ad hominem attack, it’s cool I see ya.

Demian Maia choking out Gonzaga was not in mma., so it’s a moot point. (Tho yeah of course the smaller guy can win an mma match.) You espouse more weight classes, then less weight classes as the solution to the same problem, which doesn’t make any sense. You don’t acknowledge that 20-30 lbs between Heavyweights is…

I was being sarcastic with “Caloric intake and monitoring workouts” because your wish to ”abolish” weightcutting is naive. Also, and again, day of weighins are not inherently bad. Just hydro test them throughout that competition week. And you realize that 20-30 lbs makes less of a difference the larger you get. So…

The other athletes and coaches definitely knew about this kid prior to the tourney and many likely have wrestled him before. Certainly the other wrestlers within his own conference or division had to wrstle him to qualify for state as well as conference duels. People acting like the kid just showed up, coaches knew of…

In wrestling you wrestle the same teams in your division multiple times to determine seeding. To get to and throughout the state tourney he likely met up with dudes he had wrestled before and given how good he was the year prior it’s not like coaches couldn’t game plan for his obvious disadvantage. Don’t know why you…

Wow that got off topic!

If he was missing an arm would you say the same thing?

A decent legger could 100% still leg ride this guy.

In greco-Roman your not allowed to attack the legs so, this guy would be fucked. Couldn’t compete. Now freestyle, with their leg locks would be a different story, i could see advantages there. This here is folkstyle wrestling.

No, no its not. Front headlock, lots head pressure. Only thing that doesn’t make it easy is if that guy works his ass off to overcome his disadvantages.

I don’t see his disability as useful so much as I see it as something he overcame. I don’t think people would feel the same way if this kid was missing an arm, and that’s because most people can more easily comprehend the advantages of having both arms as opposed to one arm and more strength distributed throughout the…

His name is Robert Paulsen.

There are Senior meets, I think they are over 35yo. That’s about it tho and not for 99% who wrestled. We just gotta roll into jiu jitsu and mma, or coach. It is a skill that stays with you. If I get in a fight I never think boy I’m glad I played baseball.

And that’s what sets this young man apart not that his disadvantage gave him some weight/strength advantage but that he had the drive!

“For example, big strong guys are typically not quick, quick guys are typically not the biggest or strongest.” It sounds like you’re describing Street Fighter characters, not athletes within a weight division. Within a weight division the strongest guy and the quickest guy is often the same guy, especially in Hugh…

Someone that actually sounds like he wrestled, thanks.

“90% of wrestling occurs on the ground.” WRONG. “...where legs don’t matter” WRONG. I wrestled a shinless muscle head in college, easiest match I’ve ever had. Props to this guy for finding a way to win, I’m sure he out worked most his competitors in the weight room and wrestling room. That’s what makes a champion,…