Wrestling
Can You Lose It?
Wrestling, the world's oldest sport and still considered today the most difficult and grueling of them all. When wrestling the wrestler must decide what the best weight class is for him to wrestle at, most of the time this means losing weight to wrestle at a lower class and although it is not seen that often bumping up a weight class may occur. Wrestlers will lose weight at any costs and this has been proven to be very fatal in the cases of Billy Saylor, Joseph LaRosa, and Jeff Reese. These three athletes died from malnutrition, dehydration, and over exercises while cutting weight in order to meet the dead line to wrestle. These wrestlers were trying to lose more then five pounds a day before the weigh-ins after already losing more then fifteen pounds from the beginning of the season (www.intermatwrestle.com).
The factors that effect the decision could be an inner squad battle where you have two very strong wrestlers at the same weight, one of them need to move......
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