http://www.GutCheckCert.com The Gloves Are Coming Off!!! - Part 4

I've seen it one too many times when Gary Albright and I would go to get a few beers when we were off duty at the local bars and we'd have some of the American style wrestlers join us when they happened to be in the same town.

Naturally, some muscle-heads from one of the military bases, people who claimed to be boxers, karate-ka, judo-ka, martial artists, what have you, would start trouble and feel that they had to test us just because we were hanging out with some "show" wrestlers, despite the fact that we were just minding our own business and keeping to ourselves.

None of those "challengers" even came close to going the distance with them. It goes without saying, but Gary would always do just as well and I've never seen him break a sweat in a straight bar room brawl. It was always quick, if you blinked you generally missed the whole thing. We really didn't get into fights, it was more like a five year old attempting to fight an adult.

It can be said that styles of wrestling which are more entertainment oriented are a lot tougher than what we did. Sure, the durations of their matches are close to ours, but many of those wrestlers are wrestling 300 matches a year, sometimes more than one match a day, not to mention that they are in a different town or country almost every night and have to deal with the long travel, fatigue, and work through serious injuries from ridiculously dangerous moves and techniques which take place during the matches yet continue to go on with the schedule while we did only one match per month in our style.

Look at all of the serious crippling injuries and number of deaths which occur in certain circles of pro-wrestling that statistically makes boxing, kick-boxing, MMA, UWFi, and all of the other contact sports look extremely safe. As far as the number of inj
uries and deaths in wrestling, is it the same or has it increased since the Pancratium? You tell me.