Arizona State wrestler Anthony Robles might always be known as “that one wrestler with one leg.” But as of this past weekend, he’ll have an additional moniker: Champ. Robles, who was born without a right leg, took down the 125-pound title at the NCAA’s national wrestling championships.
Robles won state high-school championships, then a national one. Ignored by many big wrestling colleges, he had gone to nearby Arizona State, where he’d become an All-American and win three Pac-10 titles…The stories of Robles’s training took on a mythical quality—charging up hills with his Sun Devils teammates, bench-pressing 305 pounds, a 125-pound wrestler with upper-body power sculpted by a lifetime on crutches. ESPN swooned.
ESPN actually aired Robles’s title match live, beating last year’s 125-pound champ, Matt McDonough of Iowa, by a 7-1 score. That’s pretty cool. I want to buy him one of those wrestling belts with the spinning WWE logo now. Hey, it’s the least I could do with two functioning legs.
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He is the master of the single-leg take down.
Whatever.
Let’s see how well he’d do against Big Van Vader.
Here’s a quick preview of how a wrestler with one leg would do in MMA: [www.youtube.com]
If the weight limit is 125 lbs and you get to subtract the weight of one leg and in its place substitute muscle… hardy fucking har, genetics. As long as there aren’t any speedy predators in your environment you’ll continue to eat.
Yeah, but can he execute a leg cradle?
There is a figure 4 leg lock joke there somewhere, but I juuuuuuust can’t make the connection.
I’ve always known wrestlers to go to extreme lengths to keep within a certain weight class, but chopping off your own leg is a bit excessive.
Kids these days…
Does anyone else have a problem with the fact that b/c of missing leg he gets to wrestle in a weight class 20-30 lbs lower than he would qualify for with both legs. So his upper body strength is of a bigger man than his opponents so he can easily our muscle them. Plus how do you get a takedown on a guy who is already on the ground?
It’s the one legged man that won the ass kicking contest.