Originally Posted by
big john
I wrestled in school and it's very intense but it doesn't last very long and you're not miles from home when you're exhausted. I did weight training for 10 hours per week and had a hard time getting enough calories as I got near 250#. If he had to make weight that is a problem heavyweights don't have.
I asked the guy about the level of competition. He said they had 2 meets a week. He said one week he was wrestling the current olympic gold medal holder at his weight division in the first meet. In the 2nd meet, he was wrestling the guy who had just defeated said medal holder! He was 5'7" and said his tri racing weight was 150lbs. I played basketball collegiately. I'm 5'8" and played around 173-175lbs. I asked him what weight division he wrestled in. He said it was the 118lb(I think) division. I'm looking at the guy and can't imagine how he could be that light. He must have been skin and bones and not much else.