Awful may have been the wrong word to use. I just didn't like this kid though. He was known to be on steroids (kid on his own team told me), and was cocky as hell. I took him down immediately, and drove him out of bounds, and he started punching the mat. He was yelling and growling... was just an ass hole. He punched the mat every time that we went out of bounds. My coach told me to kick him out, so I could finish the tech in the first round, and I said no, because I didn't want him to score on me (because of his attitude). I chose neutral for the 2nd round, and took him down straight to his back for the last 4 points I needed. (2 takedown and a 2 point near fall)... After the match I told him good match, and he said "whatever"... then I went to go shake his coaches hand, and he went walking off the mat. His coach told him to shake my coaches hand and he said "**** them"... and stormed off the mat, yanked his shorts and shirt from his coach and disappeared into the back. Guy just rubbed me the wrong way... I normally respect all of my opponents for having the courage to compete.
Sounds like a poor sport... Maybe the roids made him a jerk:think but the fact that he took them says something about his persona.... He probably had jerk tendencies that were really accentuated by his roids....:good
Sounds like a very poor show of sportsmanship. Even when guys whooped me good, I always shook their hand or sometimes I would give 'em a hug because of that mutual respect that builds between opponenets during the course of competition. I guess it's good for the karmic balance that you kicked his ass. Heheh.
Widdow, did you watch any of the 2008 NCAA's (grappling of course) If so....what did you think of the 149 lb wgt. class That was about as stacked a wgt class as you could get..... 2 4x state champs from Ohio and they get 7th and 8th... I'll be curious to see the results if Metcalf and Jenkins wrestle each other in freestyle in the off season....
I agree guys, he was a bad sport. It isn't like I haven't had my ass handed to me a few times in wrestling when I was coming up through the years. I never had a bad word to say to any of my opponents, and would be the first to congratulate them on a great match. It's good to be humble, makes you work harder and keeps you sharp. I used to talk myself into believing that every opponent that I faced was a great wrestler. Even if it was the last seeded kid in the first round. To answer your question billyconn... no. Unfortunately I haven't watched much NCAA at all this year. Between getting my new business off the ground, helping out with the local youth sports programs, and spending quality time with my fiance and kids... I really haven't had much time to do anything else. I have been posting on here a good bit over the past few weeks... of course that is going to come to almost a complete halt as it is now the working season and I must get out there and make that money.
Being busy keeps me out of trouble....got a month long trial coming up, half way across the country, so I hear you on being busy....but if you have a second you should check out the Metcalf/Jenkins match on youtube, if it's still there.....
Great match... Metcalf just doesn't stop and that is normally what happens down the stretch, he takes over. I wanted to see him vs Schlatter again, but I don't think Dustin ever really healed from that leg injury this season.
Metcalf is a lot like his coach Tom Brands (like you said "just doesn't stop") I agree about Dustin (his leg) but he also lost a bit of his edge. Kind of like Federer has in tennis as of late (although he did have mono) but there's that extra gear missing.
Thanks for the recap. I finally got to watch the fight. You called the stoppage right on the button. Karo got caught and was in serious trouble at the time of the stoppage. It's a shame because he was controlling the fight up until that point.
