Colorado HS wrestler forfeits state tournament match rather than wrestle girl

[SteyrAUG]

He needs to go for it.

LOL. I actually know Joe Hess.

[OH58D]

We've been looking at this from the male perspective. Anyone ask the girl what her thoughts were on this? Maybe she was a bull-dyke and had more masculinity than the boy? It happens.

[SteyrAUG]

This is the way I see it also.

I've been aware of girls playing football, but this is the first time I've heard of them wrestling. We sure are entering into strange times. Not once have I ever heard a girl (even second handed) say she wanted to try wrestling.

I wrestled in HS, and would not have gone up against a girl.

Also sounds like he was working with a serious ethical code. He didn't feel it was appropriate to be physically aggressive with a female and at the same time didn't want to be disrespectful of the effort she was putting into wrestling. Given that he was painted into a corner no matter what he did, he did the best thing and stuck with his core belief system.

Kinda rare, kinda impressive. He's a nicer person than I am.

[Honu]

some dude had a song something about know when to hold em/fold em AND know when to walk away hahaaahh reckon this is a walk away moment

[jsbhike]

some dude had a song something about know when to hold em/fold em AND know when to walk away hahaaahh reckon this is a walk away moment

So he might end up beating the crap out of her in coward of the county fashion...

[jsbhike]

LOL. I actually know Joe Hess.

Cool.

Was there a big play up before that where she said she was going to beat him like a drum and he kept saying he wasn't going to lay a hand on her? That is the claim I have heard all my life, but that clip is about it for info that I have found.

[docsherm]

The young man seems to possess a serious Christian mind. I hope he doesn't fall prey to the wasteland of "popular" Christianity.

What the hell does that even mean?

[Firefly]

What the hell does that even mean?

Whatever bullshit he makes up.

I just ignore it now. I go to my AME church, I tithe, I pray. I’m good. Anything beyond that is extra crap someone else came up with

[OH58D]

It's the brave new world. Guys who claim to be trans now compete against girls in track & field competition. Gender fluidity also screws up the whole scheme of things. The young man in the OP decided he wasn't going to play the game, and perhaps he was right. What was wrong is now right - nothing is set as baseline normalcy any longer. At some point you just disengage from society and live in your own world. Personally, as I mentioned before, I would have engaged in the match, took the gal out (if possible) and move on. Nothing sexual at all.

Right now my little world is covered with a sheet of a half inch of ice all over a large area here. Weird ass weather in New Mexico last night and this morning. Last time this happened we lost power for a couple of weeks.

[RobertTheTexan]

We've been looking at this from the male perspective. Anyone ask the girl what her thoughts were on this? Maybe she was a bull-dyke and had more masculinity than the boy? It happens.

From the picture of the girl shown in the video she didn’t appear to be a Super Bull Dyke Man-Girl. He just said that it was a very aggressive, very close contact sport and felt that it was inappropriate. He basically said I believe I can withdraw while still respecting them. (That’s what he said.) I think the kid is just walking out his morale code. Right or wrong, he believes he’s doing what is right.

On the other side of the coin, she obviously knew what she was getting into when she started wrestling and had probably met boys in matches at that point. I think of old adage comes to mind: “If you want to play, you got to pay.”


Do you ever run across an old OV-1D Mohawker named Willie T.? CW4 (maybe) while you were at 160th?