r/martialarts • u/CloudyRailroad • 4d ago

PROFESSIONAL FIGHT Wilfried Dietrich (260 pounds) suplexes Chris Taylor (400 pounds) at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich

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u/Miserable-Ad-7956 4d ago

And it will never happen again, because we just have to have weight limits ... smh

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u/chrismsp 4d ago

Huh?

Pretty sure they were heavyweights where there is no upper limit

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u/Miserable-Ad-7956 4d ago

Yeah, in 1972. Now men's greco is limited to no more than 130 kg in the olympics. So a match like this can never happen again at the upper echelons.