The first Saturday tournament of January is in the books. Cpher goes 3-2; 1 win, 2 wins by forfeit, 2 losses. This continues a trend in every tournament so far - a 1-2 record in actual matches wrestled. I wasn’t there - Suzanne got the all-day wrestling duty this weekend - but here’s what I saw on the video.
1) Wins by pin in 1:29. Man, if there is a typical Cpher win it is this match….a whole lot of big guys jockeying for position for a 80 seconds, a Cpher throw to the ground and a pin 9 seconds later.
2) Loses by pin in 1:04. And a classic example of Cpher actually going up against someone who knows how to wrestle - the kid tied up Cpher’s arms for the entire match. What is becoming a trend (and not a positive one) is Cpher trying ‘something’ (possibly because he is impatient? need to ask him about this) and about 5 seconds after he tried that ‘something’ and failed he was pinned.
3) Loses by pin at 4:50. One of the longest matches Cpher has wrestled this year and he says he was losing 4-3 when it ended. Looked to me like he might have had the kid in a very good spot (for cpher) early in the 1st period but they ended up out of bounds and had to reset. The pin was sudden and weird; Cpher tried to throw him to the ground, didn’t do it, tripped, fell, and ended up on the bottom. The end.
He will win by forfeit on Wednesday to bring his record, with forfeits, to .500 at 7-7. I’ll spend a long day at a gym in Dansville with him on Saturday.
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