"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters." Daniel Webster

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Craig Pittman vs. Alexander Karelin

Before he became professional wrestler "Sergeant" Craig Pittman, he was one of the best heavyweight (over 220 pounds) Greco-Roman wrestlers in the world. But Karelin was perhaps the most dominant wrestler in any weight class in any style in history, going undefeated for 13 years (the last six he never even had a point scored on him) and winning three gold and one silver medal at the Olympics and nine world championships.

Here, Karelin demonstrates his famous reverse body lift:

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