Approves:

JimmyTheHutt: It takes work. I knew one guy who shot himself in the leg with a blow gun dart.

Twice.

Another friend nearly shot himself in the head with the same blow gun. He missed his target which was sitting on the edge of a sink. The dart rode the edge of the sink all the way around and came right back out. Nearly the best BumbleHeim death ever.
I think if I did that, the last thing I'd do is actually tell people I did it.

Peter Griffin has a column?

Superman wears Rulon Gardner underwear.

I have to give him credit for the win though. The Russian was expected to win without any resistance. Kinda like you versus Tyson, if you were fighting in 1990, and your name was Buster...wait, nevermind, bad anaolgy.

They changed the rules that year. Rulons' entire strategy was to stall the whole time, break the Russian's grip on a lockup, thereby exploiting the rule change to earn a point.

Rulon won....1-0.

IMNSHO, it was CHEAP.

I just saw him on tv last week kicking someone's ass in a Pride fight (that took place two years ago)

ewakko

I just saw him on tv last week kicking someone's ass in a Pride fight (that took place two years ago)

I saw that same fight last week (from 2 years ago). I wouldn't say he kicked the guy's (Hidehiko Yoshida) ass, but he still came out on top via decision.

FTA: Name one other Greco-Roman wrestler.

Cael Sanderson, undefeated in college. 4 consecutive national championships.

Cylon agent.

Wanted for questioning

/quick and dirty.

He didn't shoot himself, you wise asses. When he was a kid he accidentally stuck himself with a hunting arrow.

From rulongardner.com...

While in 3rd grade Rulon was proud to show his class a couple of new arrows the neighbor had given him. After showing the class, Rulon was preparing to put them away, and dropped one of the arrows. In the process of picking it up, Rulon punctured his abdomen with another arrow. Mom and dad were out of town, so Marcella (in 6th grade) took Rulon across the fence to the emergency room. Dr. Perkes commented that Rulon had just missed puncturing something vital; Rulon was stitched up and returned to school.


I'm assuming that as he lunged down to grab the dropped arrow the nock end of the arrow in his hand lodged against the floor and the point stabbed him. If you've spent any time around kids it's easy to imagine something like that happening.

Doing the connection thing here: Rulon is a Mormon, and has said in interviews that his first name is a family name. His plane went down near the AZ/UT border, where the infamous Colorado City/Hildale polygamy community is located. The deceased "prophet" father of incarcerated "prophet" Warren Jeffs was named Rulon Jeffs. Coincidence?

God is obviously on his side. :-/

This sounds like the life of many extreme athletes. Only mildly impressed.

FarkinHostile They changed the rules that year. Rulons' entire strategy was to stall the whole time, break the Russian's grip on a lockup, thereby exploiting the rule change to earn a point.

Rulon won....1-0.

IMNSHO, it was CHEAP.

So you are saying he played by the rules and won, and because there was a rule change at some point, that makes the win "cheap"?

Exploit or not, he was wrestling against a guy who had not lost in 13 years and had been through many different situations. I have to give credit where it is due.

A lot of Greco-Roman wrestling is about stalling. It is not real exciting unless you are a wrestler and can understand the strategy.

I wrestled in HS and some in the military. It can be real exciting if you know what you are looking at.

Was that some kid's high school essay? Easy on the hyperbole...Christ...

Maybe it's an urban legend, but I also heard that one year he filled out his March Madness bracket and won every game.

/who knows....

the grand canyon was created, not by Paul Bunyon dragging his axe home, as some believe, but when Rulon Gardner fought Chuck Norris to a stalemate. This is the first time that either had not destroyed the competition. It is rumored that the explosion in Siberia in 1908 was not an asteroid, not Tesla's death ray, but a rematch between Rulon and Chuck.

I'd hate to be the red shirt on his next vacation.

JAG30997
FTA: Name one other Greco-Roman wrestler.

Cael Sanderson, undefeated in college. 4 consecutive national championships.

Close. Cael Sanderson was a freestyle wrestler, not greco-roman.

Ok, I have totally got this guy beat -

1) Fell off the top of a three story house.
2) Hit by a car while on foot (woman was on cellphone).
3) Crashed my motorcycle on the 101 freeway.
4) Hit by an SUV on my bike (woman was on cellphone, what are the odds?)
5) Fell through a frozen lake in Michigan, pulled myself out and walked a mile to the cabin.
6) Escaped my burning apartment building by jumping onto a farking palm tree and shimmying to the ground.
7) Was shot on a hunting trip by my cousin, but the bullet was stopped by my buck knife in my jacket breast pocket.
8) I was stuck in an elevator with Paris Hilton for 2 minutes.

No one writes op-eds or stories about me! Freaking sissy ass wrestlers.

/That Paris Hilton thing is true. I know, scary.

I'm not really a wrestling fan, but I remember watching that match. It was one of the greatest upsets in the history of sports, if only just because Karelin was such an overwhelming favorite.

I submitted this crap yesterday. Thanks for the red light Drew

/Not Impressed

"I'm sorry because, no matter what I try to do, you're going to die, TwistedFark."

Shirley Ujest
What the hell kinda name is Rulon?


One commemorating his place of conception maybe?

Hmmmm???...
What???...
Its an M not an R??...
Heh, so sorry, my bad....
Guess Mommy ain't a singing French whore after all.

He's also a Mormon so maybe it was his magic underwear?!

Hey, Ernest Hemingway survived three plane crashes.

He ended up killing himself.

/He should start panicing.

How has Ivan Drago avoided this thread...

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/f/f7/180px-Drago.PNG

FTFA: Name one other Greco-Roman wrestler.


Well, pretty much common knowledge, would be Randy Couture and Kurt Angle

wruley: I wrestled in HS and some in the military. It can be real exciting if you know what you are looking at.



Uhhh...yeah.

Friend of mine wrestled Rulon in high school. My friend got destroyed pretty quickly. My friend would kick my ass about as quickly, so Rulon would kick my ass squared.

This is the plane they "went down" in.



Last words before the gear hit the water:
"Man, let's buzz the lake!!!"
*chugs back a Beast Ice*
"Here we go!!!"

It's a shame really, the SR22 is a great plane and those two douches just killed one. I mean it comes standard with TAWS (that's Terrain Awareness Warning System)! The biatching betty was probably going insane.

i do not view this man a hero. granted he wasn't behind the yoke... he was still there. i would NEVER let someone try some stupid shiat like that if i was sitting next to them.

/anyone know which model it was? G2,GTS?
//oh fark! it's beer thirty!!!!

SocrapticMethod

Bravo sir.

wruley: A lot of Greco-Roman wrestling is about stalling. It is not real exciting unless you are a wrestler and can understand the strategy.

El_Perro: To be fair, though, even if you know what you're looking at, Greco-Roman HWT wrestling can put you to sleep, even (especially?) at the highest levels.
It was great the Rulon won that match, but it was a biatcheap, and was fairly boring as well.


I also wrestled, (roughly 6+ years) and to be honest I think both you guys kinda have a point. Some matches are boring as hell, which can be especially true when the guys really know what they're doing and start playing the defensive game (trying to keep the other guy from scoring points, rather then trying to go for the win or score points himself). On the other end of the spectrum however, when you get a couple of guys who are talented, aggressive, know throws, reversals and joint-leverage holds/Maneuvers, and are not so intent on using a "strategy to win," then your probably gonna be looking at a match that could, in the end, turn out to be a very good, and very entertaining match.

deeoh1

You are awesome. Referenced him earler today when unkillable people came up in conversation

it's doubtless been said before, but i aint reading all the farking comments. that writing made my head hurt and that photo of the writer is huge and can be enlarged? does he own the thing? dern.

Rulon could whup Bill Brasky's ass.

You shut your filthy mouth! NOBODY beats Bill Brasky.

I had some mixed emotions when he beat that scary-ass Russian. I was proud that an American won, but Rulon didn't seem to do much at all. I wanted to see that Russian suplex him.

Firefly4F4

Randy Couture

Really? I guess you learn something new every day. Greco Roman is a great foundation for MMA by the way.

2007-02-27 04:47:05 PM durbnpoisn

Shooting himself with his own arrow? How do you manage that....sober?

Hahah... That's funny. I hadn't thought of that when I read it. That's gotta be like running yourself over with your car.

I know a guy who ran himself over with his car. Alcohol was involved. He had some tiny car that didn't have a lower limit to the cruise control. He took it to a parking lot, got the cruise control going at about 10 miles per hour, opened the door, and jumped out to run along side, holding the wheel to steer. He failed to hit the ground running, and almost fell over. He caught himself on the steering wheel, and pulled the car to the left. Ran over his own feet.

Hey, now. Ease up on Lopresti. My hometown represented on here twice in the same thread. Gee, I feel I should be excited...

Rulon who?