Mlopez wrote:
Are you dense or what ? Karelin was a Graeco-Roman wrestler , so is Lopez, the Cuban,who might win is 3rd OG and equal him. Does Rupp has multiple olympic Gold medals ?
What you listed are freestyle wrestlers.
the best, and the most dominating one right now is by far, Frenchman Riner ,if you consider Judo as a form of wrestling....
ioioioio wrote:[quote]Mlopez wrote:
Mijain Lopez, he might win his 3rd straight SHW wrestling OG Gold medal in Rio.
WHats wrong with you? Yes, that example is just the freestyle domination...near 100% gold, silver, bronze going back in the history of superheavyweight history.
And did you just mention Judo?? Might as well go into ballet!
This Lopez character is a complete outlier, and proof that there is a lull in superheavyweight greco roman quality. Karelin won 3 olympic golds and a silver. But more importantly he only lost once to a BS scenario with an extremely oiled up Rulon Gardner. Barely. That was his ONLY loss. Lopez has lost a number of times and of course is not nearly feared as Karelin was. Even with Lopez, the Allen Wells of superheavy greco, take a look at the Gold, Silver, Bronze olympics winners too...let me know what you see as the dominant race..
Games Gold Silver Bronze
1908 London
details Richárd Weisz
Hungary Aleksandr Petrov
Russia Søren Marinus Jensen
Denmark
1912–1968 not included in the Olympic program
1972 Munich
details Anatoly Roshchin
Soviet Union Aleksandar Tomov
Bulgaria Victor Dolipschi
Romania
1976 Montreal
details Aleksandr Kolchinsky
Soviet Union Aleksandar Tomov
Bulgaria Roman Codreanu
Romania
1980 Moscow
details Aleksandr Kolchinsky
Soviet Union Aleksandar Tomov
Bulgaria Hassan Bechara
Lebanon
1984 Los Angeles
details Jeff Blatnick
United States Refik Memišević
Yugoslavia Victor Dolipschi
Romania
1988 Seoul
details Aleksandr Karelin
Soviet Union Rangel Gerovski
Bulgaria Tomas Johansson
Sweden
1992 Barcelona
details Aleksandr Karelin
Unified Team Tomas Johansson
Sweden Ioan GrigoraÅŸ
Romania
1996 Atlanta
details Aleksandr Karelin
Russia Matt Ghaffari
United States Sergei Mureiko
Moldova
2000 Sydney
details Rulon Gardner
United States Aleksandr Karelin
Russia Dmitry Debelka
Belarus
2004 Athens
details Khasan Baroyev
Russia Georgiy Tsurtsumia
Kazakhstan Rulon Gardner
United States
2008 Beijing
details MijaÃn López
Cuba Khasan Baroyev
Russia Mindaugas Mizgaitis
Lithuania
Yuri Patrikeyev
Armenia
2012 London
details MijaÃn López
Cuba Heiki Nabi
Estonia Rıza Kayaalp
Turkey
Johan Eurén
Sweden