Voltron1978
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When is state down there? Is it streamed online? Good response to the critics. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who could know neither victory nor defeat".... ~Roosevelt
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Finals are not being broadcasted??
Voltron1978 replied to Wrestlingfan182's topic in Past Discussions
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I'm surprised you haven't mentioned the kid from Northview that Sliga beat Friday night. That whole team has US Marine Corps Tribute Singlets. They have a Marine combat landscape over the whole singlet and a saluting Marine in full dress on the left side. They are a tribute to the Assistant Coach's brother who died in combat operations supporting OIF/OEF.
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Just reading that article again gives me the same sick-to-my-stomach feeling I had after getting upset in the ticket round my senior year. You know what the best thing about a governing body is? They can be replaced. Easily. You stop getting support from the IOC, you get it from somewhere else. Wrestling will continue. As long as we have kids willing to wrestle for the love of the sport and people willing to teach, coach and ref. It's not like we do this for the money...
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If American wrestling is getting this riled up, can you imagine what the Russian Wrestling Fed is like...? They've dominated for so long recently that telling them they can't wrestle in the Olympics would have been like the IOC removing hockey from the 1976 Winter Games and then trying to explain why to the Soviets...
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Agree. I remember all the pre-tournament clinics from when I was about 17 until now including some variation of the phrase .."to make the sport more spectator appealing and more exciting..."
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;D what about the roided up shot putters.....is that actually a word...? I'd rather watch a bunch of kilt wearing scots toss cabers and some matadors dodge bulls than watch a 300 pound man...or woman....throw a little metal ball...
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This has to be a balanced response from the wrestling world. First you have JR/SR high wrestlers right now who may have their dreams shot to crap by the political and financial decisions of the few. Second, this is a chance for FILA to clean up and get better organized. Focus on the World Championships. Possibly create a rival tournament for the Olympic wrestling tournament. Focus on what we can control as a community. Focus on making wrestling an irresistible option. Focus on making the Olympics want us back. The possibilities are endless to focus now on a chance to significantly stabilize, grow and globalize wrestling without having to worry about the 2020 Games. This is the chance to reach out to past and future wrestlers for support, men and women who are the face of not only wrestling, but the face of other sports that are more recognizable worldwide and where wrestling provided a catalyst to where they are today. This is PR time. A bit of history... During WW2, the Russian Army was in full retreat. Russian troops were driven by fear. They often faced 3 choices...Freeze to death, Fight and deal with German bullets or retreat and deal with bullets from their own officers. It wasn't until Stalingrad and the published stories of heroism that the battle finally turned... Maybe that's where we are now... Wrestling needs global heroes. Not Americans, Russians, Georgians or Bulgarians....Global.
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So let me get this right. Based on their decision which is supposed to include a report detailing 39 different criteria but was readily acknowledged to be more about personal and political opinion than fact, we can't watch wrestling in the Olympic Games but we get stuck with watching Dong Dong win Trampoline (seriously...look it up), women throwing Badminton matches, Dancing with a ribbon, BMX (I thought thats why the X-Games existed), Ping Pong (If you play it in college to see who can drink the most, how can it be an olympic sport), Horseback riding (why doesn't the horse get the medal) and like someone else mentioned....dinghy sailing.... Wow...Seriously.... Somewhere in whatever heaven or hell they ended up in, Ancient Greek athletes are simultaneously laughing hysterically and vomiting....
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I don't know about the Rock, but maybe Ditka after he blood dopes from Chuck Norris....
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I put Salkill in the Finals. I saw the other half of the bracket where Sliga gets to beat on everyone and figured Salkill's half may just come down to who has the best couple days. Sliga could wrestle like crap for the whole tournament and still walk off the mat in the finals with a Decision and another title...Salkill's half really does look like a crapshoot...
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106 Mini Ditka over Red 113 Ditka Jr over Micic 120 Half Size Ditka over Phillips 126 Ditka's leg over Crume 132 Hobbit Ditka over Lecount in OT 138 2 of Ditka's legs over Forte 145 3/4 Ditka over Kelley 152 Ditka minus 1 arm over Farrell 160 Ditka's stache over McCloskey in OT 170 Hobbit Ditka over Lefever for 2nd Title in the same night 182 Stache-less ditka over Masengale 195 SLIGA UPSETS DITKA 220 Ditka over Robinson (revenge for losing to Sliga) 285 Trick play Ditka subs in The Fridge for a win over Bernard Sorry. SNL skit was on a few minutes ago...
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106 Sinkovics over Red (DEC) 113 Micic over Davis (TF) 120 Phillips over Garcia (MAJ) 126 Crume over James (DEC) 132 Lecount over Moss (DEC) 138 Forte over Blanton (DEC) 145 Kelley over Molloy (DEC) 152 Farrell over Bradley (DEC) 160 McCloskey over Maldonado (MAJ) 170 Lefever over Steveson (DEC) 182 Masengale over Thacker (DEC) 195 Sliga over Salkill (FALL) 220 Robinson over Tolley (DEC) 285 Bernard over Winfield (DEC)