grappleapple Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Am I alone here or were the heavyweight matches at New Castle about as entertaining as being forced to watch Oprah reruns all day while your mother-in-law sat beside you talking about whether or not a doctor can remove the corns from her feet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingo Brigade Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Yeah, those were pretty rough matches, but I wouldn't sleep on the 3rd and 4th place finishers there. That Frankfort kid is gigantic and Wallace is a very good heavy, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awood2 Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 did anyone call stalling... ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueBolt Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Calling Stalling in a 285 match should be done before the initial hand shake. You KNOW it's going to be going on, so don't waste match time on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awood2 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I don't want to pick on the big guys, being one myself, but I used to tell them, "it's not sumo, no one scores for pushing the other around the circle." Just thinking about the matches I refereed with the most stalling... I sometimes wondered what they did in the practice room for 3 hours a day, five days a week. ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoggyStyle! Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Isn't it weird that two "small" guys are ranked 1st @ 215 and @ Heavy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin189 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Anyone else think they should just ban the first period of HWT maches, and make them wrestle 2 periods? Maybe we can get a little more action because they get to tired pushing each other around for 2 minutes. 95% of HWT matches end up 0-0 anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awood2 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 ...should never happen! Basketball has a shot clock (you must attempt to score in __ seconds). Football has a play clock (you must attempt to advance the ball in __ seconds). Why would you allow a wrestling match to go 0-0 in the first 1 minute without a shot attempt, or something! People pay money to see wrestling. As an official I would find myself trying to explain to some coaches that even in a staring contest someone is working harder than the other!!!!! Pick one and call them for stalling, if nothing happens in 5 seconds, call the other guy! If neither one is doing anything you call it, and call it, and call it, as long as you keep it even (assuming the effort level is evenly poor) in the end you have not effected the outcome; it's a wash, but you can say that you did something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdrodd1 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 In my opinion we should have one more weight class here...... Might get a couple of other kids in the room also....We should have a class from 215 to 245 and then a super heavyweight class from 245 to 285 or bigger. Or something like that....At Mooresville in the the late 70's we had a great heavyweight Kevin Simmons that could have beat about anybody but he wrestled at about 235 and would get beat by guys that were way heavier than him....Just got smothered by them......I don't care how good you are at that weight but when you give up 40 or 50 pounds you have your work cut out for you.....I don't have anything against the big kids that wrestle and hope that they keep going at it.....Don't get down on the big kids....They are going out there and getting after it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1oldwrestler Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 In my opinion we should have one more weight class here...... Might get a couple of other kids in the room also....We should have a class from 215 to 245 and then a super heavyweight class from 245 to 285 or bigger. Or something like that....At Mooresville in the the late 70's we had a great heavyweight Kevin Simmons that could have beat about anybody but he wrestled at about 235 and would get beat by guys that were way heavier than him....Just got smothered by them......I don't care how good you are at that weight but when you give up 40 or 50 pounds you have your work cut out for you.....I don't have anything against the big kids that wrestle and hope that they keep going at it.....Don't get down on the big kids....They are going out there and getting after it... Would you actually want to watch another pathetic heavyweight class? 285 is terrible enough, and 215 is only slightly better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawaiian285 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I graduated last year from seeger and most the heavyweights i wrestled got after it, well the experienced ones did. Have the heavyweights really changed that much from last year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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