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  • @6:12 Gutches shows you how to do it right. Just a beautiful example of how to throw without thinking and just reacting to the situation. Great match.

  • I hope everyone understands that, the guy in the blue, has the ability to walk into MMA and take the top 2 belts. That's a fact that no one with any knowledge will dispute. His style leans itself to no rules combat. That unstoppable head and heal, means he has incredibly strong and fast hands.

  • @spartanbob69 ur a total retard if you think wrestling is gay. u obviously have never tried if u did u would no its not. ur a trash talking immature peice of garbage

  • I wrestled w/ Les at Oregon State when I was in High School...guy is a bad ass!!!

  • That was a great match. Les wrestled smarter. Cael gassed himself with all the shots. He gets in on the legs easy enough but Gutch was able to turn him and get that throw when Cael got a little too aggressive and went over top. It's one of those tough matches when being too aggressive didn't pay off. Either one of those guys would f up just about anyone out there though.

  • FIRST TIME WATCHING

    CAEL OUT-WRESTLED LES.......screw the points

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  • @drummersantana Boxing is pretty hard, and hockey, and water polo too, but i also wrestled and it is really hard to be good at

  • i didnt think knees were supposed to bend that way

  • Wow. I just stumbled upon this video. Les Gutches is the man. People please keep in mind that Les was 28 years old in this match and Cael was in his prime at age 21.

  • Freestyle is a joke. Cael obviously dominated that match. Yes the throw was nice but lets be seriouse. Freestyles points system is rediculas

  • @ChaoticPony69

    Freestyle is much tougher than folkstyle, it requires a lot more skill and strenght.

  • @ChaoticPony69 Freestyle is not a joke or ridiculous. When two people wrestle under the same rules it is a fair game. Many of us learned freestyle as a kid and still prefer it to folkstyle. How can a sport that rewards you more for a higher throw not be awesome?! As an old man now, I prefer it for the rests between periods lol.

  • @87elway NAH....folkstyle is where it's at, how can you stall on the bottom and it's accepted...and exposing the back for a split second gives you points...that's my beef w/ freestyle.

  • @MINIeminemFAN The point of the stalling on bottom is to produce more action from the feet. It is over in 15 seconds and allows even the fans to see a match full of action, not laying on the ground grabbing arm bars without ever getting a turn. I love folkstyle too, but apparently you haven't wrestled much freestyle. To each his own. Happy new year!

  • @87elway Happy New Year to you as well! I have wrestled freestlye for many years and it's just frustrating how it's "all out" on your feet then it slows down when somebody gets taken down...you might not see it that way, but that's the way I see it. Folkstyle forces you to get up, where as freestlye, all you got to do is hold on for a certain amount of time and you can get back on your feet w/o doing anything!

  • 2 sweet duck under by Les... great match

  • don't care what the rules are, I'd still rather wrestle like Cael. The throw was nice. Other than than, Cael took down and took the back almost at will. depends on what rules your looking at i guess. In MMA or Jiu Jitsu, taking the back that many times is a huge advantage. Cael looked way more impressive and was in control most of the time. You can cry about the rules all you want, but Cael was in control. Period.

  • I didn't know you could put soft-core porn on youtube.... huh.

  • @ch33sybrandon HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHAHAHAHA. join reality fag.

  • @brunodabeast1 No homophobia necessary.

  • @ch33sybrandon fuck you

  • these two are some the greatest wrestlers of all time them and dan gable i think are the best

  • this is freestyle, not folk 

  • You know it's a flawed system when the person who controlled most of the match loses by points. Collegiate wrestling makes much more sense and is much more entertaining.

  • @DeadlyHygiene The WORLD does NOT do folkstyle wrestling so it DOES make sense to the rest of the world, it just doesn't make sense to some of us in the United States. It's a sport. We get caught up in the "go hard" mentality. Its not about that. It's about knowing how to wrestle internationally.

  • The problem is a lot of people have no idea about Greco or freestyle. You have to be technical to be good. Just because somebody is fast, aggressive and exciting to watch doesn't mean they are any good or are going to win. This match is evidence of that. I believe we should scrap folkstyle and just be purely freestyle and greco just like the rest of the world, but take that with a grain of salt.

  • @SBayne762 I personally enjoy wrestling Folk. Very good base for children coming up.

  • Seriously? I counted 6-8 and I am giving Cael the takedown at the beginning. If you wanna take your own knee out like that it should get shredded and/or you give up the points. I also gave Gutches the second turn which was REALLY IFFY because if you are reversing someone you can expose your back as long as you immediately get the reversal as Sanderson did (in the rules back then).

  • Awesome match with two outstanding athletes. Nice throw at 6:12.

  • u win some u lose some

  • Different rules. There used to be only two periods and the scoring was cumulative.

  • I'm not too familiar with freestyle rules or scoring, having said that, can somone tell me why the ref had them go neutral again at 3:19 and at 5:45??

  • @001snipe You only get around 15 seconds to turn your opponent or the ref will restart action from neutral. This actually goes for any position where there is a lack of action, like a stalemate position in folkstyle.

    Sanderson was awarded 1 at around 3:05 and couldn't turn Gutches in 15 seconds so they restart neutral. Same thing for the other time you mentioned.

  • @boosterts iight, thanks man!

  • @001snipe You only get around 15 seconds to turn your opponent or the ref will restart action from neutral. This actually goes for any position where there is a lack of action, like a stalemate in folkstyle.

    Sanderson was awarded 1 at around 3:05 and couldn't turn Gutches in 15 seconds so they restart neutral. Same thing for the other time you mentioned.

  • after college, cael did not like international wrestling very much, and had a few scattered losses, so yes its ok that he lost nothing to freak out about. gutches also came to elmhurst college to put on a technique clinic and speak before the freestyle tournament hes pretty inspirational

  • @ilift247 yep. dont know why ppl are freaking out on here

  • Why did Gutches win after only two periods? Cael won the first one in overtime because the score was tied 3-3, correct? Or is this the second and third periods, and Gutches already won the first one?

  • cael controlled the match...regardless of the outcome

  • that was a 5 point throw, with out a doubt.

  • So odd to see Cael not winning

  • the better wrestler won

  • To me Cael pretty much shows greatness all the time, always moving gracefully, attacking and getting his target, flowing from position to position, never stalemating.

  • @jocweper Cael clearly lost. Gutches got his hand raised in the end and if you don't know, that means he won the match.

  • This is just one of those times where cael was the much better folkstyle wrestler but gutches was the better freestyle wrestler because cael worked gutches pretty good.

  • who's who???? I thought sanderson was in the blue !?!?!?! but that would mean he lost , but i thought cael has never lost!!?!?!?!

  • i would have called a 3 point throw...

  • i'm sorry but it looked liked gutches got worked

  • Definitely a good call on the 5 point throw

  • i like it but austin's bloody mess is better

  • wow cael got yoked through the air on that one!

  • this is why folkstyle rules..always- a clear winner!!

  • The lady announces the score to be 6-5 for Gutches, but I thought the score was 6-6 after that last one, and that was a 3 point throw.

  • Back when Freestyle (and Greco) was an actual match instead of a stall-fest!

  • Les is my cousin, or some wierd thing for how im related to him. Im 13 years old, but i wrestle and my family say we have wrestling in our blood. Pretty wierd.

  • @Hayden12398 wanna cookie?

  • Spartinbob. You have terrible arguments. Wrestling isn't gay at alll it's a display of strength stamina technique and determination. Wrestling is the first sport ever made. It is one of the most strenuous sports. And don't dis things you have never tried or don't understand. Any college wrestler could completely destroy a player of almost any other sport.

  • @dickfaceanusV2 wich is why your name is dick face? i think it means you like dick in your face. :)

  • @spartanbob69: If this sport is so gay, why the fuck are you going out of your way to watch it? You must have some serious self-loathing issues that you don't know how to mediate. Go see a therapist you closet homo (not that there's anything wrong with that) Just come out. We're in the 2000's.

  • This match was 8-6 Gutches. The real winning move was @06:12.

    That pretty much did it.

  • YEAH IOWA STATE!! GO CYCLONES< AND CAEL

  • @spartinbob69 u should go tell brock lesnar wrestlings gay.swimmings gay its a pussy sport.y dont u go swim with ur underwater frens patrick and spongebob squarepants and catch some jellyfishs.arnt u the fags that wear speedos and thongs? we all know how much u love riding moby dick spartinbob queerpants

  • 1:45 is the gayest thing ive ever seen

  • @cunnarattus the match ended 8-6 Gutches didn't score 11 or 13, he had 1 takedown! and he had a back exposure making the score 3-3, then a 5 point move, the score is now 8-3 and then Cael scored 3 unanswered takedowns and thats it.

  • look at the way he wrestles

    he dont waste any time always looking for a takedown

    gives everything he gotwhen he wrestles , its no wonder how he went undefeated in college and earned a olympic championship

  • Cael dominated this match. If Cael had more experience with international rules versus collegiate there is no doubt he would have run away this and many others.

  • Les Gutches is a G

  • actually i would. they are all pussy ass bitches, just like you homo. Im fine with you liking other boys and wrestling other men in tights but please dont record it and act like your so straight because wrestling is definately the Gayest sport ever. even more gay than soccer. its only a matter of time till wrestling comes out of the closet as a gay sport. same goes for you

  • @spartinbob69 "they are all pussy ass bitches" Please for your safety don't say that in front of wrestlers, and then don't complain about having your head smashed on concrete.

  • @spartinbob69 I'll wrestle any day over than playing "Command and Conquer" HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • @oASSAULTo the only reason i got command and conquer is because your mom bought it for me haha. you seriously have the worst comebacks i have ever heard. i really dont see how you would rather wrestle down another homo to the ground than playing a badass video game. it only shows how gay you are hahahhahaahahhahahhahahhahaha.

  • "it only shows how gay you are" ask your mom if it was gay last night

    feels like im talking to a freshman in high school.

  • @oASSAULTo you might want to reread your last comment. it doesnt make sense at all. your a idiot lol.

  • @spartinbob69 "your a idiot" HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

  • @oASSAULTo "oASSAULTo Loves dick in his butt when he wrestles down lubed up men" HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH­AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH­AHAH what a fag

  • @spartinbob69 Oh boy someday you will grow up.

  • @spartinbob69 i will kill you and eat your first-born child.

  • dumb ass

    

  • @DaBearsManiac just eat all his children

  • @DaBearsManiac He cant have any children... He's gay...

  • @spartinbob69 try doing it buddy

  • @oASSAULTo im not a homo. no thankyou

  • @spartinbob69 you woudnt be able to handle it your better off sittin on your ass on your computer and looking up videos to rant on.

  • @oASSAULTo good one fag haha, you must be one of those homos who wears tights and wrestles down other guys like a little gayboy haha

  • @spartinbob69

    if it was really gay then it woud'nt have been made in 600 B.C

  • @oASSAULTo wow that was the worst excuse i have ever heard. you are so stupid it amazes me.

  • @spartinbob69 your ingnorance amazes me, the reason to wear singlets is that so your clothes dont interfere while you wrestle. i can already tell your not much of an athlete probally a big stoner who sits on his ass and eats a bag of chips and drinks soda.

  • @oASSAULTo Why would i give a shit about your gay tights that you wear? ask your mom if im in shape you peice of shit, i had that bitches bed rockin last night. the only wrestling i do is with your mom and other hotttt chicks. but i can tell you love wrestling men, homo. hahahha

  • @spartinbob69 you see your ignorances triumphs your own arrogance.

  • @oASSAULTo nice try, but you suck at arguing you noob. go do yourself a favor and just turn your computer off homo.

  • @spartinbob69 I bet you would never have the balls to be talking this much shit about wrestling in front of a  wrestler.

  • @spartinbob69 why are you watchin the video then do you like watching guys in "tights" your just a little bitch who wouldnt last

  • @TheBillyspaz why are you watchin the video homo? i didnt even watch the video, i came to look at all these gay comments and tell people like you how gay you are douchebag haha. is this getting personal for you, you seem a little mad? i think you should just calm down and breath. you might wanna take the dick out of your mouth so you can actually breath BTW.

  • @spartinbob69 HAHAHA, looking at your name, regarding this was 2 months ago, child, don't be ignorant, wrestling will be one of the most intense sports you will ever know. I like how you trash talk something you don't know shit about.

  • @spartinbob69 honestly. your the biggest worthless piece of shit. your probably just a fat ass who sits at home and does nothing. wrestling is the hardest and most intense sport known to man. you wouldn't even have the pussy to do anything. go play with yourself and play some more pokemon faggot

  • Hard work pays off! Les is proof!

  • I don't know what you are all talking about, Gutches had two takedowns, two or three back exposures and then a 5 on top of that. Guches scored 11 or 13 points and Sanderson scored 6. I am suprised by how many people don't know the rules of this sport.

  • @cunnarattus gutches only really had one good back exposure but he definately won that 5 point throw was sick.... although i definately think cael is the better wrestler hands down

  • @cunnarattus No, he didn't score 11 or 13 points. Gutches scored 1 takedown, a 2 point turn, then the 5 point throw. The final score was 8-6 Gutches. Sanderson scored 6 takdowns, though after Gutches went up 8-4 I'm not sure he cared about giving up the final two takedowns.

  • @cunnarattus

    Just where the hell do you think all those back exposures came from? It's amazing how YOU don't know the rules...

  • @cunnarattus are you sure your watching the right wrestler? lol

  • @cunnarattus I"m pretty sure Cael is the guy in the blue and killed Guches.. How did people ever think Guches beat Cael?? I hate people who don't know wrestling

  • @cunnarattus people usually do folk or highschool wrestling and dont know how the scoring on freestyle works

  • @cunnarattus your dumb as shit u dont know shit about freestyle

  • ughh I like freestyle and all but some of the scoring is terrible. I lost a round (match due to the round) where I got the only take down, and then stepped out of bounds in neutral position later (1point for him) and they told me since he was the last to score the round was his. I felt robbed =x

  • Sanderson is a wrestling god

  • Cael Sanderson is the on of the greatest wrestlers to ever live! Only person to ever win 4 NCAA championships! mother fucker is a badass

  • @4seedless2saint0 nope. pat smith, brother of john smith, was the first ever to get 4x ncaa. cael is the first to go undefeated + 4x ncaa. and yes he is a badass

  • Gutches i stotally legit as a wrestler, but herein lies the problem with freestyle scoring. Sanderson owned his ass for this entire match, but because of the throw, Gutches wins. Too much greco influence. That was a totally dominating performance by one of the three greatest american wrestlers in history!!

  • One of the best wrestling matches I've seen.  Gutches was more experienced and already had a lot of success against tough international competition, and Sanderson, although he didn't come out on top in terms of points, was as dominating and exciting to watch as always.

  • I thought Sanderson went 159-0 in college???LOL where is this from? High School? Cael Whipped him but lost???Maybe I don't want to wrestle after all...

  • @pizzaboy1250 It was at the 2000 US National Open. That was freestyle, not college or high school style.

  • @pizzaboy1250 Moron. This is freestyle.

  • @sublime8510 That isn't the point,apparently it needs some rule changes you douche bag

  • @pizzaboy1250 Why does it need rule changes? Its a different game.

  • cael has the best ankle pick i have ever seen. unfortunately he got caught in an awkward position and gutches capitalized with that throw.

  • why did Cael tap at the end of the match?

  • I guess in this style of wrestling you have to lose to win.

  • Karelin vs. Sanderson, Cael would get killed. How about Karelin vs. Andre the Giant.

  • Best part of the match is from 6:13 to 6:14. Sucks to get tossed like a rag doll!!

  • bull crap sanderson destroyed him the entire match

  • @fistr check out match from 6:13 to 6:14. Got to wrestle the whole match to win.

  • who would win cael sanderson vs alexander karelin?? greco roman & freestyle match.

  • who would win cael sanderson vs alexander karelin?? greco roman & freestyle match.

  • The reason so many people are confused watching this match is because from little on up we are accustomed to watching folkstyle. If the US is ever going to dominate in this sport we need to switch over to freestyle and get rid of folkstyle all together! Too much emphasis is put on the takedown and riding time here in the US. Not enough emphasis on throws and turns. Until we make freestyle our standard we will always be mediocre in international competition!

  • ankle picks don't cut it in freestyle. It's all about the throws and turns.

  • @burgin84 is that why Sanderson won gold? You're an idiot.

  • 6:11 Fast and cool

  • im guessing this guy is the badass in the freestyle world like cael in the folkstyle 

  • @chinxx7 Cael is a badass in everything

  • im gonna pretend that cael kicked the shit out of him in this match.

  • this is gay. start punching in the face. mma = nwo

  • @supermario103 Takedowns are only one point, not two, in freestyle hence Cael only had Five points. Gutches scored one for a takedown and two for exposure in the first, and he committed a three point throw, a throw of low difficulty which is basically a takedown and exposure in the second. Thats why he won 6-5.

  • damn cael's ankle picks are almost unstoppable

  • @haidar9999 because he's a badass

  • when I watch older matches compared to the new crappy rules of today, it pisses me off how fila has screwed the sport with all the stupid rule changes...this was/is a classic match

  • Freestyle is all about getting those quick back exposure points like you saw at 3:50 and scoring with throws. Wrestlers who are good with throws, foot sweeps, rolls from the front headlock, and tilts have a HUGE advantage. Watch Terry Brands vs. Kendall Cross and you'll see. Brands pounds his way into 3 solid takedowns that would be 6 points in folkstyle but only score 3 in freestyle. Then Cross rolls brands across his back once and the match is even.

  • i thought Cael was undefeated...

  • @ahmed0529 this is freestyle, not college.

  • did he lose??

  • Les Gutches's throw was so brilliant!

  • is this folk style??

  • Gutches is sucking wind hard after the first period.

  • What an amazing match!! Gutches is a beast. Cael is a beast. WOW! One of the sickest throws I've seen in a high level match in a long time. This was a clinic that can be watched over and over again for learning. Thanks to both of these guys for giving us this treat!!

  • this is why i hate the 1 point takedowns. Cael dominated this match but because of one offensive move from gutches he wins. I mean 6 takedowns, come on

  • @Darrylsacct same here take downs should be two they arent the easiest to get sometimes.

  • @Darrylsacct such is the beauty of wrestling, u gotta be watchful and on ur top game 120% of the time, i agree tho, sux sometimes

  • Cael knows the rules and understands if he wants a takedown tournament he needs to go elsewhere than the us open, Great match by gutches did what he had to

  • @Darrylsacct  thats the game buddy

  • @Darrylsacct Rules are rules. no excuses.

  • That's what I call a wrestling match! If it wasn't just about points and was about who dominated most of the match it would have gone to Cael. He came out on top over and over again. There were a couple of times too where Cael was on top and the ref made them restart both standing and I think Cael should've been allowed to keep doing what he was doing.

  • I really liked seeing this side of cael, it makes it thrice as awesome when u see some of his better matches. I also like how it kinda shows u tht in wrestling the more u wrestle the better u get. Cael is still my idol :)

  • I actually wrestled, I know what the move is, it's a "flippy twist" as far as I am concerned, I know how many points it is worth. Gutches dominated by Sanderson, Gutches never wins again if they wrestle 10 times.

  • Sandersojn dominated that dude in every aspect of the match, except of course the one flippy twist that in real wrestling means nothing. As I see it, Sanderson wins 12-8.

  • that "flippy twist" is a 5 point throw that requires great technique....and this IS real wrestling its olympic style wrestling. sanderson was a great wrestler no doubt but his inexperience showed in this match.

  • inexperience? haha, your funny.

  • @gtghome if you can't understand that then you are worse off than cael in this match, he won be strength

  • @schilke237 watch from 7:30 on, he should have seen that coming he got embarrassed, no disrespect to cael, but he wrestled very young in this match

  • @georgio140 r u retarded?

  • @georgio140 i second this motion very strongly sanderson is good but he wrestled very clumsy in this match, it would be hard to tell them to just anyone cause cael is a celebrity

  • Les Gutches is in red; he pulled out a hankerchief, which was required of all wrestlers at one time -- an old-time tradition.

  • @ideamark

    That "handkerchief" is what is known as a blood rag in Greco-Roman and Freestyle wrestling. It is still used and is a requirement for all wrestlers to show the ref they have it upon stepping on the mat.

  • the video says its from 2000 so this is after his sophomore year of college cause they also say that hes a two time national champ in the first couple minutes he was undefeated in college and even though he is still in college during this match it doesn't count on his college record

  • Just so you all know Les was hurt going into this match.

  • Dude i though Cael Sanderson was 159-0. ????

  • He was in College. This is a freestyle match, and I'm not sure if Cael is in college or not. Les is a few years older than him, and had a lot for freestyle experience.

  • 6:14....WOW!!!! Gutches BEASTED Sanderson out! Sanderson is clearly the better technical wrestler but I dont think he could throw gutches like that...Gutches tossed cael like a ragdoll!

  • Agree!

  • caels blue.

  • is cael the 1 in the red and if so what did he pull outta his singlet and why

  • I went to camp last summer and les gutches signed my cael shoes lol

  • OH GOOD FOR YOU!!!