Styles Make Matches

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Have you ever wondered why two wrestlers can wrestle multiple times with drastically different results?

Or why –

wrestler A beat wrestler B,
wrestler B beat wrestler C,
but wrestler A lost to wrestler C?

The answer is hidden in plain sight.

Styles make matches.

Choosing to match your style versus your opponents, to create and wrestle in advantaged positions and avoid wrestling in disadvantaged positions, is the most underutilized strategic asset in wrestling.

The wrestler who wrestles in his advantage position, for a greater amount of time in the match, will have the higher probability of winning.

That is the reason why two wrestlers wrestle multiple times with drastically different outcomes, and why the logic doesn’t hold that if one wrestler beat another he should be able to beat the wrestler his prior opponent beat.

If you watch and research matches between the same wrestler’s you will see, more times than not, the reason there was a different outcome in each match was that one wrestler was able to wrestle in his advantage position in one match and was not able to do so in the other.

A wrestlers’ job is to understand which position is his advantage position versus each one of his opponents.

In which position the highest probability of scoring points as quickly as possibly exists.

And to get to that position.

I believe you don’t get to that position by chance,

I believe you get to that position by choice.