Coleman, Mark (USA) vs Balz, Heiko (GER)

1992 Barcelone Olympic Free 100kg class round 5
Coleman, Mark (USA) vs Balz, Heiko (GER)

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• Coleman
• Mark
• USA
• Balz
• Heiko
• GER
• 1992
• Barcelone
• olympic
• freestyle
• wrestling
• Греко-римская
• вольная
• борьба
• олимпийский
• フリースタイル
• グレコローマン
• レスリング
• class
• final
• grecoroman
• libre
• olimpica
• Olympischen
• Ringen
• lucha

[Sk8Blog]

how was that a 3 point? like wtf?



[DestroyerAlexandros]

@TheSMW84 That's true, he's a great wrestler but a lot of guys like Phil Davis and Jon Jones who wrestled in college are worshipped as some sort of wrestling world champs. Sorry but that's not the case, just because they did well against American college students doesn't mean they'd do well on an international level (considering most of the competition is made up of former Eastern block countries like Kyrgystan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia etc.)

[TheSMW84]

@DestroyerAlexandros Well there is a big difference between the golden gloves and placing second in the entire World Championships, obviously. Coleman had a poor performance this Olympics and was still 7th. Plus, Coleman has victories over people like Kurt Angle in amateur wrestling, who is considered one of the best wrestler's ever, and was a gold medal winner. Coleman really was that good at wrestling, nobody would destroy him.

[DestroyerAlexandros]

@TheSMW84 Wasn't talking about him, but anyway. He was CLOSE to being the best. The best wrestlers in history (I don't follow it closely but I'm sure of this) would destroy Coleman. Yet in MMA he's considered some sort of wrestling demi-god. There are a lot of Golden Gloves champs in MMA too but they'd get destroyed by an top 100 guy in their sport.

[TheSMW84]

@DestroyerAlexandros

What are you talking about...Coleman won the Pan American games multiple times, got 2nd in the world championships and won 4 out of 6 matches in the Olympic games....he wasn't average...he was damn close to being the best in the world at it.

[fer2lance]

Btw Mark Coleman placed 2 nd at the 1991 World championship



[DestroyerAlexandros]

The sad truth is that a lot of the MMA wrestlers, MMA boxers, MMA judokas and so on that we think are so great at their respective discipline, are only average in the international competition in that sport.

[TheTerryE]

Love the German guy's singlet.

[fishingjoe45]

Good to see him before he was juiced out of his gourd.

[grathapilot]

interesting that in the '91 world champs, Coleman came 2nd and Balz 3rd, Khabelov 1st

a year later, Khabilov 1st, Balz 2nd, Coleman only 7th. he looks like he's injured a bit here, wonder if that affected his performance? also shows how tough and competitive wrestling is at the top (unles you're a soviet wrestling machine who's always #1)...