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LJB, you’re not going to make the folkstyle turds covert to Greco. They are the casuals. They are the Caitlyn Clark Iowa women’s basketball fans. Some form of tribalism that is much stronger than actual reality. Greco is hard. Like chess. I can watch hours of chess. The better the play, the more boring it is. I watch it because I understand it. I like watching wrestling. Middle school wrestling is exciting. Tons of scoring. But it’s terrible.

The NCAA needs their monopoly/anti-trust exemption before they’re corrupt. They are in the “throw our hands in the air, we’re trying to be good” phase of corruption. I don’t see any good ending to it, other than for universities to have semi-pro football and basketball with a trust to support Olympic sports. The dropping of wrestling from the Olympics was the best thing to ever happen. UWW seems to understand the US’s success is paramount to their own, while FILA was content on killing themselves if it killed the US, too. Freestyle rules twenty years ago were atrocious and a direct assault on US wrestlers. Today, the FS rules are the best they’ve ever been. I’d say three two-minute periods would be the only change I’d like. I’d say the same for Greco, so there’s some decisiveness… two periods to one.

So the laws that were passed by our democratically elected representatives were enforced? The horror!

There is no overtime for the sake of staying on schedule…. Then we have six minute matches that take 20+ minutes. RAF found out quickly that reviews would kill the watchability. There are three officials. They should be able to make the calls. If they get it wrong, so be it. It’s still just a game and life isn’t always fair. Video reviews have undoubtedly made officials worse (less decisive) in every sport. I’m pretty sure all these data centers going up everywhere are for video reviews, too… and Caviera’s AI questions.

Bella’s management team’s strategy is obviously too advanced for us simpletons to understand.

Can we at least all agree that video reviews suck, regardless of style? A lost challenge needs to be more punitive… restart with your opponent having a standing rear body lock. Is that questionable call worth getting dropped on your dome for five?

R-E-L-A-X

You took this one to heart, didn’t you?

Weird.. I used to wrestle Cozart.. in Greco.

I think it’s growing… I could see it taking off in Latin America/South America if there’s a future.

Women’s breakdancing has a Netflix special… folkstyle wrestling does not.

Would it get more eyes than a Mesenbrink winning 74kg? I don’t know. But the IOC is big on getting different countries medals.

It’s more about getting non-traditional medalling countries to get medals at the lowest cost. Women’s Greco could do it.

How about we push eight weights of each men’s and women’s freestyle and Greco? Is it crazy to think “fans” don’t need to advocate for the elimination of the sport?

No anger here.. just at a loss as to why any wrestling fan wouldn’t want more wrestling.

Advertising to Americans is what funds sports. Americans like champions. Small investment makes lots of wrestling champions.

You have the strawman argument. Folkstyle has nothing to do with the popularity of college wrestling. Change it to freestyle, the same people would watch. The point is folkstyle hurts wrestling. Period. I’m not qualifying that in any way. Filkstyle hurts wrestling. Folkstyle is a detriment to wrestling. Folkstyle kills wrestling.

When you have memories of running away from cops in St. Louis for underage drinking with guys who are now considered “legends”, you feel old…

It was a Nokia 5180.

I’m old… I just know how it used to be… dammit… im not that old. I didn’t have a cell phone until I was a freshman in college!

Folkstyle is American youth wrestling. By definition. Grown men getting so incensed to preserve it is a bad look.

I took a break from the forum… this thread is still going on… not going to read it. If you don’t like Greco, fine. Don’t watch it. In no world is getting rid of Greco going to lead to more weights in men’s freestyle. It would only lead to less wrestling. nofete…the New Ministry… RAFWiki.. you can be an asset to this message board if you don’t get into petty quarrels.

Penn State is a weird situation… the normal FOIA rules don’t apply (why you don’t see Carl’s salary), so it definitely could be a weird situation with using BJC.

The people calling Steveson a rapist seem to be the same people who think the woman who strangled her three kids to death is not guilty.