Someone please explain how Cassar was fleeing the mat.

[Cosmos]

When he was being pushed around by a much heavier opponent. Thank you.

 

[RD41]

When he was being pushed around by a much heavier opponent. Thank you.

Thought it was a stalling call, not fleeing.

 

[Cosmos]

Thought it was a stalling call, not fleeing.

Sorry. There's a report on premium content that called it fleeing. As a casual wrestling fan my interpretation of fleeing is going out-of-bounds voluntarily. Seems to me HWY should be given more discretion than other weight classes. JMO.

 

[nerfstate]

I don’t have an answer, but this rule is IMO, the least consistently called rule in the sport. At the end of the day, it worked out for ant. All that pushing of Jersey Prime is apparently pretty tiring. But thought it was a weak call.

 

[yekrut321]

I think it’s called....the Sam Stoll affect!

 

[LorenzoFan]

They got rid of fleeing the mat years ago! Remember the debacle at MN

 

[Cowbell Man]

The rule isn’t always easy to apply and maybe called incorrectly, but it has definitely had the correct and desired effect. Wrestlers really keep the action in the middle. The days of the Cornell Boundary Riders is over....and going there simply for the purpose of using he circle as a second defender against aggressive or scoring opponents. There were several school who applied that plan and slowed matches to a crawl.

While it would be great to get the call correct....it still works.

Cassar (or Case-r) was giving up ground for a good portion of the match and was called for it. At the time of that call he was on the edge and went backwards without a lot of cause. I’m good with it. His action picked up after it.

 

[jrd23psu]

I was confused as to why Gable was given that point. I thought maybe I had missed the first stall warning like I was crazy or something because it happened so early in the first period. I couldn't hear the announcers so it must have been fleeing the mat penalty point. I thought it was a poop call but you have wrestle through bad calls and Cassar did.

 

[NoVa Lion]

I don’t have an answer, but this rule is IMO, the least consistently called rule in the sport. At the end of the day, it worked out for ant. All that pushing of Jersey Prime is apparently pretty tiring. But thought it was a weak call.[/QUOTE

Here is the language from the rules. Like it or not this was the correct call per the rules.

Art. 8. Stalling by Kicking Out of Bounds. A wrestler kicks out of a lower leg hold and this kick out requires the referee to make an out of bounds call

 

[nerfstate]

It was two stall calls. The first in the very first sequence of the bout, the second shortly thereafter.

 

[nerfstate]

Wow, Nova. Didn’t realize that. Not sure how I feel about it. I was more talking about the first stall call though, which was more of your Sam Stoll situation.

 

[BruceK-PSU83]

I thought Cassar could have been dinged with another stalling call in the last 10-15 seconds of match. Rather fortunate IMO.

 

[LDandy]

I think it’s called....the Sam Stoll affect!

I know that you're poking fun, but the first point awarded last night was literally the definition of Iowa Style. Push, Push, Push, and coerce a stalling call. The only things missing from the match were two munchkins jumping up and down like monkeys on crack, and 10,000 "entertained" fans bellowing "He's Stalling."

 

[Hotshoe]

Personally I'm not a fan of the rule. The object isn't to push a wrestler out in folk. At heavyweight it's even worse because of the large weight discrepancies. If that were the case, guys like Coon and Stevenson could just keep pushing guys oob's.

 

[LDandy]

The rule isn’t always easy to apply and maybe called incorrectly, but it has definitely had the correct and desired effect. Wrestlers really keep the action in the middle. The days of the Cornell Boundary Riders is over....and going there simply for the purpose of using he circle as a second defender against aggressive or scoring opponents. There were several school who applied that plan and slowed matches to a crawl.

While it would be great to get the call correct....it still works.

Cassar (or Case-r) was giving up ground for a good portion of the match and was called for it. At the time of that call he was on the edge and went backwards without a lot of cause. I’m good with it. His action picked up after it.

I just had a flashback to watching Jesse Delgado "wrestle." God he was brutal.