Mixed High School Wrestling

[kryptonite]

Youtube shows a lot of mixed high school wrestling matches in which the woman beats the man.

Most of the men/boy wrestlers that lose look pretty weak to me--they've got skinny arms and aren't full grown men.

But there's one video showing a 119 pound woman beating a 140 pound man. The heavier man dominated the lighter woman for the first minute, but then it looked like he ran out of gas. It could be that the woman was wrestling at her ideal weight, but the man was weakened from trying to make a lighter weight class. It also looked like the man had terrible technique though I'm no expert on wrestling.

I read a website article about women wrestling in high school. The records of most of them showed about a 33% winning percentage competing against men and other women.

 

[C.K. Storyteller]

As a former high school wrestler who had women both on my team and on the other side of the mat, I'd say that your article is fairly accurate.

I was a freshman when I had to wrestle a girl. At that point, I'd only won a handful of matches. Huge amounts of internal and external pressure to win, which I was able to do.

Two women on my team. One got pretty good, the other fizzled out. But even the good one only won less than half the time.

Might be a muscular thing; might just be the odds. Or the pressure of not losing to a girl.

My two cents.