Root vs Chappa 2/24/07

Wisconsin D1 State Finals. Chappa Pins Root and it looks like Malachi Root is out cold. I wished I would have taped for a few more seconds.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Malachi
• Root
• Wrestling
• Chappa
• Wisconsin
• Rapids
• Knocked
• Out
• Sleeper
• Hold
• High
• School
• State
• Championship
• finals

[189wrstlr]

i wrestle on the same team as Root and i know he was knocked out

[Berus7]

Clearly a choke. I'm amazed that people are claiming otherwise. Carotid artery was shut off, leading to blackout - obvious from the twitching we see. Lame technique, and clearly not a pin.

[brandenv]

This looks like Folk style wrestling and in folk style wrestling, it is illegal to encompass only the head in a head lock. The ref should have stopped this immediately.

[huntingman102]

i remember when that happened. i couldn't believe it.

[schillingallday]

lewie was still with us

[irishfantony]

Should it have been called an Illegal Hold?

[GlueMan16]

Chappa obviously went for the choke and got it. He did the same move in college to get in the starting lineup. I think he did it because he felt that was the only way he could beat root was by choking him out. Root would have beat him easily.

[Holdtillcold]

...using a choke disguised as a front face lock to take an opponent down in an amatuer match and get an easy pin happens more than you think. And when they are put to sleep so deep and spasm, it sure gives it away what was going on.

[189wrstlr]

Root blacked out thats why chappa won

[Sabin56]

I can't wait to see the Lincoln Wrestling team go down hill next year now that Lewie Benitz is gone.