126lbs Barry Davis vs Mark Zimmer - 1983 Dual : Speakers & Interviews

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#43	Cliff Fretwell December 1 at 9:58pm Park, Your all over the place with SI articles today. Good Stuff. reply
#42	Yokota_Japan December 1 at 7:51pm http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1125326/1/index.htm reply
#41	Yokota_Japan December 1 at 7:50pm One of my favorite Sports Illustrated articles I think all wrestlers can attest to what Barry Davis went through. reply
#40	TJ X November 17 at 8:17am clarencelong4 said: “Does anyone have the 1983 NCAA semifinals match of Barry Davis v. Wade Hughes?” I think Barry wrestled Scott Lynch of PSU in the semis that year? Here is a great link if you love to watch Barry Davis, some great vintage footage, it's 2 pages, enjoy! http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=mark+perry+wrestling+highlights&emb=0&aq=0&oq=mark+perry+wrestling#q=barry+davis+iowa+wrestling&view=2&emb=0&start=10 reply
#39	clarencelong4 November 12 at 5:16pm Does anyone have the 1983 NCAA semifinals match of Barry Davis v. Wade Hughes? reply
#38	Wtf Iowa Hater November 3 at 2:04pm you encourage stalling? its people like you that make kids burn out by looking only for the win. plu, your style is so boring. if everyone was offensive like iowa, the sport would be more exciting and much more popular! reply
#37	TJ X November 2 at 1:41pm I hope The Guru gets a chance to stop by this week and check this video out, I know he is very fond of watching Barry Davis destroy people! reply
#36	Jim Kelly November 1 at 3:27pm these stories are the best... Cliff's idea is GENIUS hahahaha! reply
#35	Mike Malinconico November 1 at 1:46pm More "Iowa in the 80's/90's" stories PLEASE reply
#34	"Screwy Louie" Lazzari November 1 at 9:54am Ready, Willing, & Able!! I have a few ideas. BTW, I have mandatory referee meetings every Sunday @ 1pm & Monday @ 7pm in Section 3 (Syracuse) so I'll be back in time for Favre Rd. 2 & Yanks/Phils-4. reply
#33	Cliff Fretwell November 1 at 9:48am We should collect all these awesome Gable stories and have Screwy Louie read them every Wednesday night as bedtime stories. reply
#32	Gable October 31 at 10:56pm Back in 2000 or 2001 I went to a coaches conf. in Daytona, Fl. It was early morning and I was sitting out eating a hot meal. Watching the sun come up I was thinking to myself..."This food is good but I havent worked out a day yet since getting to this conf." A few mins later in the distance I see someone running towards the hotel on the beach. Its about 7AM and this guy is wearing full sweats in the morning in Florida. Guess who? DAN GABLE!!! Sweating his ars off!!! Guy is intense and really made me what to throw up that meal I just ate. LOL. I will never forget that. reply
#31	Iowa Hater October 31 at 11:07am I hate the Iowa style. All they do is move forward and pressure their opponent. As a wrestler and a coach I encourage stalling and backing up off the mat. And if you get tired use injury time. reply
#30	TJ X October 31 at 5:37am Great comeback line Mike but if it were me I would have grabbed that crumpled up piece of plastic, sprinted up to the chump who had the audacity to throw it at us, and screamed on top of my lungs in his puss, "DO YOU KNOW THIS SAYS "HOPE #5" ON IT, PLEASE RECYCLE!!!" Can you imagine the nerve of those ego maniacs, just because they are NCAA Champs and AAs, they think they are above going green. reply
#29	TJ X October 31 at 5:34am >>and as they left I got the courage to yell "Ill get that for you!!!!" reply
#28	Mike Krause October 31 at 2:45am FYI - Im not calling them punks I know Tom Brands and Mark Rieland and weve talked about that day! I was a intense and they brought the heat! Even though we were on the receiving end of the intensity we loved it. I was tied with Stiener 2-2 after the first then he chose top and well he is one of the best leg riders in the country and he proved it. Demond Betts our 126 lber hit Terry in a slide by for a takedown and we all cringed because we knew he was about to pay for it!! reply
#27	Jim Kelly October 31 at 2:04am these stories are outstanding hahahaha! i want a video of coach krause telling the story, it would be even better than reading it, can't get enough of this stuff! reply
#26	TG October 31 at 1:01am Great story. Those guys were intimidating and probably always will be. They would not have left our locker room without a few bite marks on their bodies. We would have had our asses kicked most certainly, but punks are punks even if they are legends and punks need to be addressed accordingly, even if you know you will go down big. reply
#25	Mike Krause October 30 at 8:27pm When Terry pointed at me he was shaken and rocking back and forth...So I bark back to him " I dont know Ill find em!!!" (toughest thing I could think of at the moment) I walk outside and here comes Phil all slow and says " im coming im coming..." We get all set and Zapitul gets on our scale, which was one of those big meat scales like a cedar point, and Phil stands to the far left and squints his eyes and says "uuu I dont know I think your over..." ( which from that angle it adds a 1/4) Zapitul goes nuts and Brands says "Stand BEHIND HIM!!!" Phil says "oooo I guess you're on.." Then Terry gets on and Phil does the same thing!!!!! the place went nuts and I though to myself "This is going down right here right now....we're about to get crushed in our own locker room.." but PHil backs off and thank God he quit doing it...SO we get done weighin in and Phil always bought us these Ensure drinks to revitalize ourselves and we're sitting around an orange Gatorade cooler sipping on these old people drinks like a bunch of while Brands brought a warm gallon or distilled water...both Stieners, Brands and Zapitul all stood around in a circle and handed that thing off and pounded it in about a minute...as they left "someone" crumpled the empty plastic gallon up and whipped it at us! it bounced around our legs like a pinball and as they left I got the courage to yell "Ill get that for you!!!!" Greatest punkout ever in our own locker room....Hogged all our equipment and then punked us...love it!!!!!!!! reply
#24	TJ X October 30 at 7:35pm Incredible technique on Zimmer's first takedown, the way he stayed high in the thigh on his leg attack and then when he decided to come up, he came way up the thigh, head up, arched back and lifted Davis high in the air and then finished with a foot sweep. TEXT BOOK! Of course, after that it was all downhill. Sheesh! reply
#23	Cliff Fretwell October 30 at 7:13pm DUDE where's part two I have nothing to do on a Friday except wait for your second part to this story. reply
#22	Matt October 30 at 7:09pm those cheerleaders were cracking me up. "fight like a hawk!" reply
#21	Fan October 30 at 6:25pm zimmer of columbus st. francis desales was the first four time state champion in ohio high school wrestling history. wrestled a couple years at wisconsin, then finished at oklahoma. reply
#20	TJ X October 30 at 3:31pm Mike Krause said: “Im not sure I have enough time right now. It starts like this...It was 12 pm on gameday and i was about 4 or 5 over so I walked into the MSU locker room to start me weight cut...as I walked in the showers were all on high heat with Zaputal doing jumping jacks in full plastics, hooded sweatshirt and pants along with a winter hat (standard back in the day), both Stieners were to my right pummeling like it was their job, Chelzevig was sitting down full sweat rocking back and forth, Reiland was doing the same with Ostodorph just hanging out, Tom Ryan was shadow wrestling and getting ready to get back in the sauna...and there they were Tom and Terry in the sauna full battle gear hogging MY bikes...riding them on the TOP SHELF!!! I stood there trying to wrap my mind on how many AA's and National champs were within 15' of me the answer is 10...so I yelled out "Hey BRANDS!!!!! I need that Bike!!!!!!!!!" he yells back with out looking up " IM NOT DONE YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" so i mumbled something semi tough and got my full battle suit on, I put a shirt on under my plastics some guys liked the plastic on skin deal...so I went into the wrestling room to cut my weight..plan B...jog for 10 minutes then rock for one bike for one and jump rope for one...while I was on the bike he walked in the room....Gable....i wanted to jump up and shake his hand but it was game day so i just peddled on...Gable looked around the room and was checking out all the past Big ten and AA we had on the wall...just then he jumped up on the old ladder we had hanging from the ceiling and dig 34 sloooow pull ups...i counted and the man did them slow...then he sat next to me on the airadine (sp) and cranked it up to about 8000rpms I didnt get off till he did and he was soaked in an outfit you shouldnt be working out in.. We went into the locker room to weigh in and PHil Parker was playing games..we were all standing around waiting to weigh in and it was 2:01 Terry Brands turns to me and says "WHERE THE H#!@ IS YOUR COACH!!!ITS 2 OCLOCK!!!!!" Ill finish the story when I get back from the kids Halloween party!!!! the good part is coming...” I cannot wait until Part 2! I once saw Dan Gable in 1990 running sprints in the field house in Evanston, IL prior to the first round of midlands. I was cutting weight and noticed gable walk in, remove his sport coat and in his dress slacks, white shirt, and tie start bouncing around as if he were warming up (to coach I guess?). He then began sprinting up and down that field house like a lunatic. I remember walking by him later and noticed his shirt was drenched. He was bouncing around before the first round again as his wrestlers were ready to commence. I remember thinking of all the weird Gable stories I have heard over the years, some truly hard to believe, but now I had my own story that nobody would ever believe! reply
#19	TJ X October 30 at 3:26pm Cliff Fretwell said: “Question for debate, was Barry Davis or any of the earlier trained Gable guys the Brands before the Brands were the Brands. People talk about the Iowa style / Brands style but guys like Davis were just as tough and banging and brawling like the Brands were. Discuss....” Cliff, I absolutely believe Barry Davis was Gable's first true "protege" of what he believed the premier Iowa Hawkeye wrestler should be: powerful, quick, RELENTLESS, unmatched conditioning, intense, a crowd pleaser, and above all else-a point scorer (something seriously lost in many of today's wrestlers). I believe the Iowa superstars who followed such as some of the men I previously mentioned were simply finely polished products of the Barry Davis blueprint. Barry set the gold standard of what Iowa wrestling would be for the next few decades under Gable and paved the way for the newer generations of Hawkeyes. reply
#18	Nick Beattie October 30 at 2:11pm I love his mat return at 2:56, and the crowd was awesome, not to mention Barry Davis's wrestling. reply
#17	Mike Krause October 30 at 12:04pm Im not sure I have enough time right now. It starts like this...It was 12 pm on gameday and i was about 4 or 5 over so I walked into the MSU locker room to start me weight cut...as I walked in the showers were all on high heat with Zaputal doing jumping jacks in full plastics, hooded sweatshirt and pants along with a winter hat (standard back in the day), both Stieners were to my right pummeling like it was their job, Chelzevig was sitting down full sweat rocking back and forth, Reiland was doing the same with Ostodorph just hanging out, Tom Ryan was shadow wrestling and getting ready to get back in the sauna...and there they were Tom and Terry in the sauna full battle gear hogging MY bikes...riding them on the TOP SHELF!!! I stood there trying to wrap my mind on how many AA's and National champs were within 15' of me the answer is 10...so I yelled out "Hey BRANDS!!!!! I need that Bike!!!!!!!!!" he yells back with out looking up " IM NOT DONE YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" so i mumbled something semi tough and got my full battle suit on, I put a shirt on under my plastics some guys liked the plastic on skin deal...so I went into the wrestling room to cut my weight..plan B...jog for 10 minutes then rock for one bike for one and jump rope for one...while I was on the bike he walked in the room....Gable....i wanted to jump up and shake his hand but it was game day so i just peddled on...Gable looked around the room and was checking out all the past Big ten and AA we had on the wall...just then he jumped up on the old ladder we had hanging from the ceiling and dig 34 sloooow pull ups...i counted and the man did them slow...then he sat next to me on the airadine (sp) and cranked it up to about 8000rpms I didnt get off till he did and he was soaked in an outfit you shouldnt be working out in.. We went into the locker room to weigh in and PHil Parker was playing games..we were all standing around waiting to weigh in and it was 2:01 Terry Brands turns to me and says "WHERE THE H#!@ IS YOUR COACH!!!ITS 2 OCLOCK!!!!!" Ill finish the story when I get back from the kids Halloween party!!!! the good part is coming... reply
#16	Cmon Krause October 30 at 11:35am Tell us the 91 story! reply
#15	Ty October 30 at 11:13am ya, please tell the '91 Brands locker room story reply
#14	Stump October 30 at 10:14am Please tell the '91 Brands locker room story reply
#13	Mike Krause October 30 at 9:21am although I know Alger was a breaker too...saw him just hammer guys a couple times..not even funny. reply
#12	Mike Krause October 30 at 9:18am I think the "Break em" attitude started with the Brands. Barry is a shredder and beat people up its just that Tom and Terry didnt stop until you gave up. They didnt care about the points it was if you broke em you won if you didnt you lost..even though the score was 18-6....they felt they lost. Dont make me tell my 91' Brands locker room story... reply
#11	Cliff Fretwell October 30 at 8:52am That's obvious Lee, I was talking Gable trained folk. My question was before the Brands, Mcylravy era where the Hawkeye's got a ton of attention and spotlight, guys like Davis had wrestled and had success with that style decades before. Today's people associate Iowa with Brands/Iowa style not Davis / Iowa style, or Goldman/ Iowa Style, Zaleski / Iowa style. I was just asking if there is some discussion there. Some history we don't talk about that the old schoolers have. reply
#10	Lee Roper October 30 at 8:42am I think Gable himself was Brands before the Brands were the Brands (if that makes any sense). It all started with the old man. reply
#9	Cliff Fretwell October 30 at 8:30am Question for debate, was Barry Davis or any of the earlier trained Gable guys the Brands before the Brands were the Brands. People talk about the Iowa style / Brands style but guys like Davis were just as tough and banging and brawling like the Brands were. Discuss.... reply
#8	Jfapoicempojerngpi October 30 at 8:24am hey what did the name super 32 come from reply
#7	Gormley October 30 at 8:23am Zimmer was out of Columbus DeSales in Ohio (i think that's how it's spelled) reply
#6	Anonymous Coward October 30 at 7:51am i always thought barry of one of gable best reply
#5	Dave October 30 at 7:04am CaliFan, I am pretty sure Zimmer was from Ohio. I think he only lost 1 or 2 times in HS reply
#4	Vinnie D. October 30 at 6:53am Davis' legs are ridiculous for 126. Think they cut a lil weight in the 80's? reply
#3	TJ X October 30 at 6:27am Thank you Cliff for posting my hero growing up in Barry Davis, the predecessor to some of the later ultra conditioned and relentless Hawks like Alger, Brands, McIlravy, Ironside, etc. Absolutely relentless and crowd favorites. Now to enjoy one of the most enjoyable wrestlers ever, thank you! reply
#2	Cliff Fretwell October 29 at 10:03pm I like this match and watching Davis because he just never stops moving his hands and his feet which I think was a huge factor in his great success. Zimmer gets in deep a few times in the match but Davis just won't sit still long enough for him to set his pace and control. 2:12 mark was Flo Dirty scramble of the week for 1983. 2:56 Vicious snatchback navy reply
#1	CALIFAN October 29 at 10:03pm is this zimmer related to the california Zimmers.. reply

Cliff Fretwell

126lbs Barry Davis vs Mark Zimmer - 1983 Dual

October 29, 2009

Iowa and Oklahoma battled late in the year with Davis returning as the National Champ at 118lbs now up at 126. Davis defended his title up a weight this year and Zimmer did not place. Zimmer, however did get 7th the following year. Great battle, Barry Davis still doesn't stop moving to this day.

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