An absolute horrific example
of this issue took place at Final X in regards to comparing the calls of the Yianni/Lee and Richards/Gilman matches. Not only were the grounded situations called in a consistent manner, but they actually penalized a wrestler who was grounded and did not penalize a wrestler who should have been.
Richards who was getting backed out of bounds by Gilman literally just dropps to both knees intentionally to avoid push out point. What do they call ? Just call grounded. So no point awarded to Gilman, and they start back center mat. What should they have called ? Should have been a caution 1 against Richards and he should have then started down in parterre position center mat.
Nick Lee is pushing Yianni back and Yianni attacks the same way he has a million times before where he fakes a shot right and tries to duck left. Nick Lee ultimately blocks the duck sending Yianni to his knees. Even then , Yianni attempts another shot from his knees to the right and Lee pushes Yianni out of bounds while Yianni is grounded . What do they call ? They caution -1 Yianni and have him start parterre center mat. This not only gives Lee a point but then he got 2 more points from that parterre with a trap arm followed by Yianni getting 1 point reversal. This decided the match as the final was 7-6. Lee should have not gotten the 1 point for caution 1 and should not have been in the position to get the 2 point exposure. Yianni would in turn not get the 1 point reversal. that’s a 2 point swing Yianni’s way in a 1 point loss. Now who is to say that the rest of the match doesn’t end differently if Lee is down instead of up in score. Bottom line, we will never know cause the officials screwed it up. This should have been called grounded as him being on his knees was a result of Lee’s defense against Yianni’s offensive action.
It would be one thing if they both did what Richards did (going to his knees intentionally to be grounded ) and they called it two different ways in each match. It is another thing altogether when they call both scenarios wrong opposite of each other.
