ESPN The Season: Iowa Wrestling

[Beebs]

Jesus, how did I miss this? It's from 2001 before Sanderson had starting coaching, and the only real rival for Iowa was Oklahoma State. It really highlights how goddamn crazy college and international level wrestlers are; they seem like they are just mentally tougher than any other sport. Dan Gable and Tom Brand are both psychopaths who just happened to do wrestling instead of like murder sprees. It shows how the Iowa way of wrestling is so hard nosed and physical rather than technical: might hurt on the international stage, but if you get a guy like Gable who had the skill and have him with that attitude of constant attack? Forget about it.

I didn't wrestle in high school, but in college I did hang out with a kid who was a legit national contender in D2 at a different school, he would party his ass off, drop 20 pounds the next day, and crush mother fuckers that night.

It also shows why wrestlers make such good MMA fighters right out of the box, because they just go so hard, all the time. The wrestler I knew, with very limited striking or BJJ, took an MMA fight with a guy who knew just enough BJJ to get hurt, and the wrestler just took him down and hamburgered him.


These guys are just wired differently.

ESPN The Season - Iowa Wrestling Part 1 - YouTube

ESPN The Season - Iowa Wrestling Part 1 - YouTube

[thekremlin]

Originally Posted by Beebs

how goddamn crazy college[...]wrestlers are

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[Repugnant Abomination]

Joe Rogan said almost the exact same thing.