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Olympic Wrestling Finally Worthwhile?
This sucker sold out his ears one Olympics too soon
A few weeks back, we received a complaint that Bootlegger Sports doesn’t feature enough stories about wrestling. No, seriously. At that time, we had written zero stories on wrestling and since then, that number has risen to absolutely none. We maintain that we take your suggestions to heart, but our hearts don’t write columns. I actually wonder sometimes if mine is illiterate. Anyway, all of that simply means that this is a post about wrestling. Feel free to tune out if you’re not interested. Those Megan Fox pictures Robbie linked to earlier might be a nice diversion.
U.S. Wrestling isn’t happy with its performance at the Beijing Olympics and will try to bribe athletes to achieve more at the London Olympics in 2012. A gold medal for an American wrestler will jump from a $65-thousand payout in 2008, to a $250-thousand payday in 2012. The surgery to fix your ears will likely eat into those funds quite a bit, but still its a nice gesture.
USA Wrestling executive director Rich Bender said the additional money is from the Living the Dream Medal Fund. It’s designed to “move the needle” on the number of medals won by American athletes. When I hear the phrase ‘move the needle’, I’m immediately thinking steroids. Anyone else? Is the increase in prize money to reimburse wrestlers for the juice? Now I’m filled with questions. Oh, I wish I could quit you wrestling story.
It’s possible that the jump up in prize money for medals will affect all sports Americans compete in, not just wrestling. But, it wouldn’t be that surprising if wrestlers were the only ones benefiting. The U.S was bad in both wrestling and boxing in the last Olympics, so we’re starting to look like major pussies. Judo and fencing medals don’t cut it, the only thing keeping China out of our country is our prowess in wrestling and boxing. Considering Olympic boxing has sh*t the bed, America appears prepared to throw all of our resources into wrestling. That ought to keep those Chinese at bay. We just need to be threatening enough to keep them out of bow and arrow range. They’ve got highly skilled archers.
Ah, the Olympics, teaching us who to fear and why since before I was born.
Just a Good Ol’ Boy, Never Meanin’ No Harm
Rosholt's dog is also the best cutman around
Jake Rosholt is set to compete at UFC Ultimate Fight Night 17 on Saturday. It’s just another step in the fighting career for the former NCAA wrestling champion. His greatest fight of all, however, should be coming about 15 minutes after PETA sees this video.
PETA may not have a problem with a dog fetching beer for its master, but who are we kidding they absolutely will have a problem with it. With a little common sense, though, PETA’s going to be picketing Rosholt’s UFC bouts from now on.
Here’s something I’ve learned over the years. Most really well trained dogs have been beaten a little. Not cruel, Mike Vick style beatings, but what I would call “learning beatings”. It’s for their own good, as most beatings are.
Rosholt is a trained fighter and has been wrestling his entire life. If ever there was a person who would throw his dog some “learning beatings”, it would be him. And dogs don’t just naturally get up and grab you a beer from the fridge one day, that takes some conditioning. How many times did that pup come back with a diet Dr. Pepper and get slapped in the mouth?
That dog looked plenty happy to me, but I’m telling you this so you won’t be shocked when PETA starts raising hell. Sure, that dog probably got punched more than Rosholt has, but it was out of love and now it knows how to fetch beer. If all beatings turned out that well, Jason Kidd wouldn’t have to get up to get his own beer.
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