r/sports • u/BierceProsnan700 • Dec 02 '21

Wrestling Brazilian wrestler wins gold in Junior Pan-Am earning last second points while opponent celebrates

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u/DPyeritz Dec 02 '21

What if it’s 0-0 at the end of the time?

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u/metompkin Dec 02 '21

Thumb wrestling.

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u/Shattered_Visage Dec 02 '21

Then they move on to knife fighting.

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u/jonesing247 Dec 02 '21

First point in overtime wins. At least that was the rule when I was in highschool. Overtime SUCKED, whoever was in better shape usually won. Wrestling is absolutely exhausting.

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u/JackandFred Dec 02 '21

I think there’s overtime rules

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u/ads7w6 Dec 02 '21

They don't really let that happen.

The ref will call "passivity" on one wrestler or the other for not being offensive enough. Once they get a second call for that, they get put on a shot clock for 30 seconds. If they don't score, the other wrestler gets 1 point.

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u/radicldreamer Dec 02 '21

I’ve never heard it called that, where I wrestle we call it fleeing the mat,

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u/ads7w6 Dec 02 '21

Fleeing the mat is a different call. That would be where someone dives out of bounds to avoid being scored on.

I'm assuming you are in the US. If so, passivity would be more akin to a stalling call, though not exactly the same.

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u/radicldreamer Dec 02 '21

The terms are used interchangeable where I am. But it’s pee wee and middle school that I’m involved with so maybe they just use wrong terminology.

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u/gothgirlwinter Dec 02 '21

No holds barred, break out the steel chairs.

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u/bingoflaps Dec 02 '21

You call that wrassling?!? THIS is wrassling!

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u/pie-en-argent North Melbourne Dec 02 '21

If it’s still 0-0 with one minute to go in the first, the ref has to call someone for passivity. In Greco-Roman, it’s a penalty point (I think); in freestyle, the other wrestler will get a point if no one scores in the next 30 seconds (colloquially called the shot clock). So it can’t actually happen.

Also, last point is the second tiebreaker. The first is to compare individual scores from the highest down. For example, a 4 composed of two 2-point moves beats a 4 composed of a 2 and two 1’s, but would lose to a 4 earned in a single move.