Tight-Waist

Now thats not entirely true Big.

My two favorite Soviet wrestlers where Levan Tedishavili and Salman Chasmikov (forgive me if I butchered the spelling of their names).

For those that dont remember Chasmikov, he was a hwt contemporary of Baumgartner's. I remember going to a match in Deadwater, Ok where he was competing. While Im telling this story keep in mind that Chasmikov was every bit of the 285 maximum, but was all of about 5'10' tall. The man was a walkin talkin refrigerator!

After all the wrestlers were introduced, all the Soviets went back into the lockerroom and came back only to wrestle and then once again went back to the lockerroom after the match. (I guess the Party apparatchik didnt want them exposed to anymore capitalism than was absolutley necessary and was no doubt also worried that one would bolt to freedom if they werent kept tightly under wraps) Everyone that is EXCEPT Chasmikov.

After Chasmikov was introduced, he went and sat in the stands next to a bunch of coeds! It was quite entertaining really as he carried on laughing and signing autographs while all his teammates were either wrestling or were sequestered away.

With about a minute left in the 220lb match he gets up, does some minimal stretching and I do mean minimal, takes off his warmups and then goes out and easily handles Baumgartner. I seriously doubt he even broke a sweat. Im not kidding!

Perhaps you have your own stories about Salman Big?