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Answer by Christopher VanLang, College 103 lber
I actually love watching wrestling. Unfortunately, I haven’t been in a good wrestling state for sometime so getting the chance to watch quality wrestling outside of the NCAA championship is rather tough. If it wasn’t for the fact that I have ultimate frisbee and there aren’t viable wrestling options after college, I would wrestle as a past time. Unfortunately for the sport, it’s not an easy sport to watch. For the majority of people it looks like two scantily clad men dancing around each other for 7 minutes and all of the sudden one of them tackles the other and the match is over. Unfortunately that is how the majority of matches are determined.
More from Quora: What does it take to become a professional MMA fighter? | Does anyone feel like there are too many weight classes and championship belts in most professional combat sports? Wrestling is essentially a long physical chess battle where one athlete tries to force another athlete to make a mistake. Buvaisar Saitiev is one of the all time offensive greats and while a fantastic and unsuspectingly strong wrestler, truly won bye toying around with his opponents and making them physically uncomfortable. Below is his 2004 olympic gold match. Purely by his positioning and technique, it seems like he is just hopping around in the center of the mat while his opponent is desperately trying to push his way to the center while constantly seeming out of position and off balance. That’s what happens when a really good wrestler goes against a significantly weaker one.
