Defense Soap Dirty Flo Takedown Of The Week

now that is real professional wrestling

In terms of periods, I think there is pros and cons to the "new" format.
Pros: a lot of drama, because someone has to score a lot of the time. You can't score early and stall out for 6 minutes.
Cons: The tie breakers are confusing to fans; clinches suck.

Having wrestled under the format, I guess I just accept it as "the rules of wrestling". IMO the only way to truly ensure entertaining wrestling is to institute penalties for defensive wrestling (ie cautions for stalling). However, given the corruption often said to exist in international wrestling, I don't think giving referees that kind of power is acceptable.
In conclusion, I don't think the current format is perfect, but I do think it provides a lot of entertaining matches.

Points taken, I do hate that a match could end up coming down to a ref's decision. That is never what you want to happen. I will watch those matches. And I know how tough 4-6 minutes can be with an intense pace. Do you agree with the scoring of periods?? or should the score continue through a match. I really do like hearing what you have to say about it. I have not actually competed with these new rules. Only watched and coached.

Russians seem to still be as dominate as ever but I do agree with the push out. So so so many times, guys are getting in on a takedown and just opting to take the easy point instead of having to finish the takedown. In my opinion, its not as exciting but on the other hand, how many of those takedown attempt might not even happen if they know they wont score for simply pushing out?? Another thing I can see when you watch a whole match, the new way of scoring HITS AMERICA hard. We pride ourselves on hard work ethic and being in dominating condition to outlast our opponents and break them mentally because we can keep going and going. Its a part of wrestling that I love very much. Its a combative sport and the mentally tough man should gain an edge. With the new point system, nobody has to be in as great of shape. They can get ahead with one move and stall out a period and win and then do it again in the second and win the match. It eliminates coming from behind or pushing someone physically until you gain the advantage. 4 minutes of wrestling??? really??? a world/olympic championship match can be won in 4 minutes AND THE SCORE COULD BE TIED!!!!! You could literally be in a match and lose two periods 2-2, 2-2 or 3-3 whatever it might be.....Its Complete Bull, I used to love freestyle/greco wrestling and still do but these new rules have diminished my love a little.

this is the best highlight tape i have ever seen. just brutal

You people need to shut up. We all loved an american hero when he won on a technicality. That's right, Rulon Gardner who beat the big bad russian. He won on a technical rule of the clinch. So is it ok when we win a match by an rule, and not the rest of the world? hhmmmm sounds hypocritical to me.

complain about the push out all you want, the ruskies and everyone else havin gotten over it YEARS ago, the americans just need some fine tunning and better strategies and they will be winning medals too

Or they thought it was just bad wrestling watching all the sumo pushout points.

I think its a fair rule, there just using the rules to there advantage, you would do the samething.

4:55 the kickout blew my mind

You're right, they should "fix" it so that wrestlers may flee the mat to avoid being scored on. Makes so much more sense.