2005 World Championships Budapest - Women’s Freestyle/Men’s Greco

Obviously, the best team performance was the Women’s Freestyle in their capturing of four medals led by the Gold of Iris Smith. From what I witnessed, the women used less tactics and more of their wrestling abilities making for more action in the matches. I’m sure there are reasons for this.

I was able to watch the final day of the Greco on the Internet on the World Championships Network. It did look better than the freestyle product, however, it definitely still needs improvements as well. I finally got to watch some technique that I could add to the overall knowledge of the sport. That’s exciting for me! Like Tolly, Justin Ruiz in Greco brought something positive at the end, which definitely helped out!

I’m sure there are wrestlers who like the new rule changes, or at least part of the changes, yet the sport is about masses if wrestling is to be stable. Continued work on what’s good here is needed. More on that later.