One Legged Wrestler, unfair advantage?

[mike dunagan]

This was the morning discussion on Mike and Mike yesterday i believe. Many people believe it is an advantage. Golic who was a wrestler said it was not an advantage, but he started to admit it was, but followed it up with anyone who has over come this is amazing. So I think those who know wrestling and understand leverage would say the way he wrestles it is an advantage. I think to be born the way he is and get out there and do it is amazing. It is not like the basketball player without a large part of his arm.

 

[packer43064]

I know nothing about wrestling, but from seeing his fights he seems to be able to get thrown around and flipped over quite easily. So much that it doesn't even seem to effect him.

I'm not saying he hasn't accomplished winning every game in his senior year, some of those games he has a clear advantage.

 

[ArttyFish]

Ok I agree it is a reasonable discussion. But it is kind of a difficult subject to debate. He is using what he was born with and excelling with it. I am sure he practices and trains very hard and is a natural athlete. If you honestly think it is a big advantage, wouldn't you think there would be more one legged champion wrestlers? It would be like saying people born tall are cheating when they play in the NBA. That is how they were born and with dedication and training they became great basketball players. There are tall, crappy basketball players also.
Besides, i think he would have loved to be born with both healthy legs than to win some wrestling championship, don't you think?

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

Ok I agree it is a reasonable discussion. But it is kind of a difficult subject to debate. He is using what he was born with and excelling with it. I am sure he practices and trains very hard and is a natural athlete. If you honestly think it is a big advantage, wouldn't you think there would be more one legged champion wrestlers? It would be like saying people born tall are cheating when they play in the NBA. That is how they were born and with dedication and training they became great basketball players. There are tall, crappy basketball players also.
Besides, i think he would have loved to be born with both healthy legs than to win some wrestling championship, don't you think?

no i don't because people aren't going to go around chopping a leg off just to become a champion in a dead end sport that leaves you with no future (what are you going to become professional wrestler with sponsors?)

The point of a weight class is so that similar size athletes are wrestling each other, by him missing a body part, he's significantly bigger then his opponents. Why not just toss the weight class and let everyone wrestle each other then?

Anyways, his accomplishment is nice and i'm happy for him but i still doubt the olympic commitee would've allowed him to compete.