Funny Wrestling Stories

• wraith51

  

  Many of us have been involved in wrestling enough years either as a competitor, coach, ref, parent, or some combination of the previous mentioned that we're bound to have some funny moments happen. Lets hear some funny moments you've all experienced or seen.
  
  I've got a couple...I was in 8th grade, my brother was a senior in high school and the HS team was shaving their heads before sectionals. My brother had the hair clippers and was shaving everyone's hair for them, the other senior captain shaved my brother's hair. They had this one sophomore that was just nervous and pacing around really unsure whether he wanted his head completely shaved or not. When he was finally the only one left my brother told him "I'll just start on the sides and if you decide you don't want your head fully shaved we'll stop and just blend it as best we can." The kid said ok and sat down in the chair, my brother turns on the clippers and shaves a streak right down the middle of his head. It was hilarious and the kid pouted the rest of the time.
  
  One from my coaching days, I had a young man that the whole coaching staff told this kid to get his hair cut to be compliant with the rules. He refused saying he won't get caught/have to cut his hair. Well, he did have to cut his hair and I got to cut it for him. The ref said his hair had to be above the eyebrows, 3 fingers off the collar, and above his earlobes. So, I pushed his bangs down and cut a straight line across his bangs, I cut one side above his ear completely and the other just barely above the earlobe, and the back I did the 3 finger lengths but like the front it was a straight line across. His hair was a mess but it was compliant with the rules now. His mom thought it was hilarious, next day it was fixed and we never had that issue again with him.
  
  I'll post some more as I remember them.
• rugbywrestler

  Had a middle school wrestler a few years ago that was getting set on bottom for the start of the second period, when the ref asked if he was set he reached into the leg of his singlet and pulled out his cell phone. He tossed it over to me and got set....No idea how no one noticed it in there for the whole first period lol.
• Gardens35

  Tournament about 70 miles away. I got caught up in a late meeting and had to drive my car to the site.......assistant coach is on the bus with the team. I got there before them and was waiting on the front steps of the gym. I see our bus pull into the lot and noticed that all the windows are down. The bus stopped and I could hear the coach yelling about something. The door opens and out comes the coach and the Stat girls. He walks up and says "Coach, we have to talk", so I ask "What's up", and he says "Ernie took a shit on the bus and it's nasty in there." He tells me that they they're cruising down the highway when all of sudden there was a "roar" from the back of the bus, then a killer stench that was pissin' everybody off. So, I said "did he take a dump right on the seat or what?", and he says "No, he emptied his gear out of his bag and shit in it.....then wiped his ass with a Walmart bag". I said OK........why is everyone still on the bus?" He says "I didn't know what to do, so I'm punishing all those effers.
  
  Good Times!
• salto

  

  The old athletic building at my former HS also doubled as the wrestling room during the winter. It had two wooden swinging doors separating the trainer/bath rooms from the mat area. Also off a corner of the mat was an all metal door going outdoors which was always locked. Surrounding the room was all-metal siding walls which had awesome acoustics when somebody was thrown into them.
  
  Whenever somebody was new to the school they'd get an introduction to the wrestling team going with the head coach and eventually get thrown outside and would have to walk around the building to the front entrance.
  
  The veterans of the team still would occasionally go through the wooden doors, not the metal door outside.....
  Everyone (including the coach) would get taken into the walls.
• salto

  

  speaking of wrestlers and their haircuts- I know of one particular state champ who put on his head gear then shaved his head with clippers. The only place he had hair was where the straps went. He also practiced in IZOD argyle socks.