I wrestled in high school (07 and 08) and one day this old timer who wrestled for years taught us how to do that. Then, he nonchalantly proceeded to mop the mat with every single one of us. The man was in his 60s. Good times :)
@@RavenMobileAtlas holds up the sky, not the earth. There was however a myth about Hercules killing a guy who couldn’t be killed so long as he was touching the earth by picking him up and crushing him while holding him in the air. Not far from what this guy does.
An elite super heavy wrestler I trained with, and who actually was at AKA for a bit, said he went to a wrestling event where Karelin, far retired, was watching in Russia and that during the intermission they interviewed him and he offered for members of the crowd to collar tie with him. My friend who is a weapon himself and 6’6 said he wouldn’t miss the opportunity and volunteered and said he felt ‘like a concrete statue’.
@@lekkerpruven887 grabbing the back of the neck with your hand shaped like a fish hook with both on their feet, essentially grabbing the shirt collar of the other guy. It's a position to control the opponent's head/neck.
To prove how badass he is - he won the Olympics with broken ribs, an injury that is pretty uncomfortable especially in the kind of wrestling he was practising. And to be even more badass he was straightening those ribs right during the fight so they wouldn't get in the way
Pretty uncomfortable is a understatement, I remember wrestling with separated ribs in highschool and crying while trying to catch my breath after the match lol
The REAL "tell" of how dangerous this man is? 887 wins/2 losses, 35 Gold medals/2 Silver medals and his ears are perfectly normal. By all accounts I have researched, Alek lost his first and last matches. The last was a due to a technicality during the 2000 Olympics to an American named Rulon Gardener. Info on the first loss is a bit murkier, in that it took place in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Because of this, I can't find any info or video from that era, as the USSR was very much tight lipped about anything taking place within it's borders, even something as mundane as a guy's first match. If any reader has further info please feel free to post it and I will make the addition. Edit: Added exact numbers and medal count. UPDATE: After much digging, I was able to identify the opponent that provided Alek's first loss. It was two time World Champion, Igor Rostorosky. Alek defeated him in their second contest.
My dad ❤️, a 2-meter tall man, hosts a sports radio📻 show in southern Finland 🇫🇮. I recall him talking about the Russian (CCCP) wrestling legend Karelin. My dad interviewed him for about an hour on the show 🤼. Karelin drew his hand on paper for me, and I’ll never forget how enormous and humble he was. Now, at 6’6” (203cm), I’m a big guy, but Karelin’s hand and body size were something else. This memory takes me back to the ’90s when I was around ten. Good times! Dad ❤ See you somewhere
Without a doubt, Alexander Karelin is the GOAT of Greco-Roman wrestling! Having lost only one match in his international matches, that too, the very last one of this career to win a Silver in the Sydney Olympics! Till that match for the previous six years, he hadn't even conceded a point against him. He has three gold and one silver of the four Olympics he was a part of! Absolute dominance on the mat unlike anyone and his only loss is considered arguably the greatest upsets in sports history.....
@@Lovin_ItWell, beat him isn't exactly the word. No-one really beated him. He had some trouble in his last olympics if I remember right, so he couldn't give his all. Still final was very tight.
@@Lovin_ItI mean the guy who won gold in Karelins last olympics is just one among others. I don't even remember who he was. Karelin is 3 times olympic champion . In his prime the best heavyweight wrestler ever.
@@Lovin_It I checked if I remembered right. And yeah, Karelin had some shoulder injury problems in Sydney. Still opponent in final was unable to score even a single point. Karelin got one warning and it gave point to opponent. If not havibg that shoulder problem, Karelin would have won his 4th Olympic gold. But anyway, 3 Olympic golds and 9 world championship golds are superior achievement. His opponent in Sydney got only that one Olympic gold and year later (Karelin retired after Sydney) 1 world champion gold. And that's it. Nice achievement but nothing compared to Karelin.
Karelin only lost 2 matches in his career. 1 in 1987 and didn't lose again until 2000. From 1982-2000, he went 887-2. Fkn insane. - Edit - To help with the main questions being asked, he lost to Igor Rostorotsky in 1987 and to Rulon Gardner in 2000. Both by 1 point. Both are considered to be controversial due to last-minute rule changes and scoring judgment.
In Greco-Roman, there is no one better. Loses once early in his career to Igor Rostorotsky, who was the best before Karelin, and loses in his last match by a technical point for Olympic Gold. His Reverse Body Lift is a move that only he could do at HW and it put fear into grown men.
Karelin is the most dominant athlete in history. There is no other athlete that has so utterly dominated their chosen sport. His record is 887-2. Prior to his final match in the gold medal bout at the Sydney Olympics (which he lost 0-1 due to a technical penalty), no wrestler had even scored a point against him for SIX YEARS. Not a single point. Not one. For six years.
@@yusufalapan5120 youturks are fascinating. dude that was 200 years ago and there were maby 5 wrestlers in the world and you bring that here. and now bring a kangal in as the ultimate doga and a dog that can beat any dog and ypoum are complete. go and make love to youf favourite goat
thats not testosterone or anything even vaguely human, that some primordial concept of murder death and destruction straight outta the elemental plane of Kicking Ass.
I love when athletes just go and do a fucking thesis on their moves, like who tf is going to peer review a guy 800+ - 2 in wrestling or a guy who's in the most victorious national football team of his country
As a Swedish kid I remember watching the 92 olympics following Thomas Johansson who was very dominant all the way to the finals where he was ragdolled and stood about as much chance as anyone in the audience, craziest thing I've ever seen in sports.
@marterturensker8131 I also am aiming to compete I don't think your BJJ will have a chance against my striking 🤷 let's go bro 😹😹 I weigh 195 but hope to compete at 155 or 170
My coach for the All Army Wrestling Team back in 1996 was a Russian Major defector (Anatoliy Nazarenko), he used to tell us stories about Russian wrestlers.
Nobody called him "The Experiment" except the Americans who were looking for a way to diminish his greatness because he was Russian. They finally succeeded by changing the rules in wrestling so can lose one point by letting his grip slip for a second.
What’s cool is in Greek mythology Hercules had to wrestle Antaeus- a giant whose mother was Gaia (the earth). Since his mother was the earth he was undefeated because he drew his power from the earth. Hercules had to pin him upside down to defeat him (remove his contact with the earth) So when Joe says that he “beat them with the earth” you could say he is a real life Antaeus lol.
My uncles a Quadriplegic and his nurse grew up in the same village as alexander she knew my entire family wrestled all through high school and college and she affectionately referred to alexander karelin as “Sasha”. She said last time she was in Russia he was signing auto graphs in a city and she yelled high Sasha and he stopped everything and went and gave her a hug. The fact that the most terrifying wrestler in recent history is known as sasha blew my freaking mind.
Wanted to make a joke about even people who knew someone who lived in the same village as Karelin get injured terribly but holy crap would that be in bad taste. I hope your uncle’s good and enjoying his life. Sorry about my dumb joke.
It's not like he is known to be addressed as Sasha. The name Sasha is short for Alexander, period. Just like you get Bob from William. Or Dick from Richard. I bet when he was growing up everyone used to call him Sasha.
I never particularly watched boxing or combat sports and didn't really understand how powerful true fighters really were until my friend who is a kickboxer took me to a demonstration one night where they were sparring. The absolute power, agility and focus of the fighters was absolutely captivating to me. I was asked if I would like to try out a sparring session with one of the smaller, younger (16yr old) fighters. Because i had always been into weight training and running i figured i was fit enough to last at least 3 minutes in a the ring with him. That kid immediately battered the shit out of me in approximately 10 seconds and it took me around 1 week to recover. Ever since then the respect and awe i have for serious fighters has made me a keen fan of all combat sports. These men are true warriors / gladiators.
I'm 6'4 265lbs used to be 240lbs at 8% body fat. Kinda fat now. Anyway my mom was 5'1 my dad was 5'10 190lbs 6% body fat. My mom's brother (5 of them) the youngest n smallest is 2" talker than me and 40lbs heavier completely ripped. Only thing all of my uncles have said since I was 13 or 14 is look at the size of his hands! I wear 3 to 4XL gloves.
His reference to beating people with the earth sounds nuts but when you see what that monster did to other savages them you would understand, shit is terrifying.
"The 2nd cycle of Winter Soldier Experiments were a success comrade. Instead of gun training this 1 is a master in all aspects in the art of wrestling." Give him a metal arm & he'd be unstoppable, a real life Juggernaut! 😂
I remember him holding the Russian flag with one hand during the Olympics walking around the track… when everyone else was struggling with two against the wind… he looked like a cyborg 😂😂😂
I have that poster of kerelin. Have had it since 1997. The quote on it says "Train like a mad man today" Whenever I felt like not wanting to train I would look at that poster. Works every time
