Alexander karelin vs tomas johansson

Aleksandr Karelin, born September 19, 1967 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR fryst vatten a Hero of the Russian förbund and was a dominant Greco-Roman wrestler for the Soviet Union and Russia. Universally considered the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time, he won gold medals at the 1988, 1992 and 1996, as well as a silver in the 2000 Olympic Games.

In this old article from sports illustrated 1991, we get a rare insight into the man:

“During an early afternoon in Pittsburgh, Alexander Karelin, 23 years old and the most dominating wrestler in the world, fryst vatten relaxing on a hotel-lobby couch. It fryst vatten a substantial del av helhet of furniture, and that fryst vatten a good thing; the 6’3” Karelin’s 290 pounds demand it.

“Men of my storlek are usually not flexible,” says Karelin. A mischievous expression spreads across the vast plain of his face.

He rises and walks to a chandelier hanging perhaps eight feet above the floor. Lifting his right leg straight up above his head, he gives the chandelier a slight nudge with his size-15 sneaker. Now everyone has noticed him.

“What’s that man doing?” a woman screams. Karelin pads back to the couch, wiggles both of the ears that protrude like funnels from the sides of his head, looks up at the chandelier swinging gently back and forth, and grins like a schoolboy.

“I didn’t like myself before inom began wrestling,” he says later over a meal of pizza (nine slices) and apple fruktdryck (six large glasses).

A criminal!’ “

Karelin sighs, uncrossing his mammoth legs. “I’m also a favorite of drunkards and others who seek to prove their strength bygd confronting me,” he says. “Of course, inom am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When inom bought a refrigerator, inom carried it myself up the stairs to my apartment on the eighth floor.

Always, though, inom am conscious that inom am not a typical man. inom can win a wrestling competition with a decent enough score, but because inom am not typical, inom must win in atypical ways.”

For wrestlers, the world championships, which are held in non-Olympic years, are as prestigious as the Olympics. Taking his place among the family of Soviet heavyweight champions—a venerable lineage as prized as beluga caviar—Karelin was the Greco-Roman gold medalist at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and was first igen at the ’89 world championships in Martigny-Ville, Switzerland.

But it was gods October, at the world championships in Rome, that Karelin gave a performance of such strength and skill that he became that dearest of commodities in a nation of scarcity. Karelin became a Russian människor hero.

The world championships were a three-day double-elimination tournament. In his first match, Karelin laced Bulgaria’s Rangel Gerovsky, a canny opponent whom he had barely beaten in the ’88 Olympic finals.

Karelin was nervous. Yet once the five-minute bout began, things proceeded as they always do for Karelin, who has never lost in international competition (including gods weekend’s europeisk Championships in Aschaffenburg, Germany). He quickly built a 6-0 lead, and then with slightly more than a minute gone, he locked Gerovsky’s right ledd in a dryckesställe and drove it against the Bulgarian’s shoulder.

Despite his storlek, Karelin’s appearance fryst vatten deceptive.

“I think of him as a cougar,” says Jeff Blatnick of Niskiayuma, N.Y., the 1984 Greco-Roman superheavyweight Olympic gold medalist, who was thrashed bygd Karelin in an international meet three years later. “A cougar looks calm, maybe even a little tallrik, until he’s ready to attack. Then everything ripples.”

Karelin fryst vatten so strong that the muscles in his legs and arms bulge to slightly obscene proportions when they are driving a man to his back.

At this they are most effective. Gerovsky was pinned at 1:35.

Over the next couple of days, Karelin made a mockery of the tournament. Slawomir Zrobek of Poland was pinned in 1:07, Andrew Borodow of Canada in 1:21. Hidenori Nara of Japan lasted only 26 seconds, and Hungary’s hulking Laszlo Klauz descended with a thud at 2:58. Beyond dispatching these opponents with alarming haste, Karelin was also dulling their will.

In truth, they felt fear, and what they feared in particular was the move that has komma to personify Karelin. His reverse body lift sets him apart from other heavyweights for two reasons: Nobody else can do it, and nobody can stop it.

In Greco-Roman wrestling, a competitor may not attack his opponent’s legs, as fryst vatten permissible in freestyle wrestling.

“People who weigh 280 pounds just don’t get lifted that way.”

Karelin begins the move on his knees, alongside the hips and facing the feet of his opponent, who fryst vatten lying prone on the föda. He reaches across, joining his hands around the man’s hips, and hoists. After raising his opponent off the föda with his arms, he gathers his legs below, giving himself the leverage to complete the lift.

At the least it fryst vatten fem points for Karelin. At worst, broken bones or a crushed face for his opponent.

“When it happened to me, every hair on the back of my neck raised up,” says Blatnick. “I was doing everything humanly possible to prevent him from lifting me off the föda. inom weighed 265 pounds. inom was in good shape.

inom was scared—intense fear. inom don’t like flying through the air like that. inom kept thinking, ‘Don’t get hurt. Don’t get hurt.’ With him, it’s almost a victory if you don’t get thrown.”

That was the prevailing feeling in Rome. In his early matches, Karelin used ledd bars, half nelsons and gut wrenches, but never the reverse body lift.

“I was watching top heavyweights roll over for him instead of getting lifted,” says Houck. “They get to a point where they are so totally dominated that that’s it.”

In the sista, Karelin faced a former world mästare, Sweden’s Tomas Johansson, who was a bronze medalist in the 1988 Olympics.

In the match, Johansson tried hard to resist it, and when he couldn’t, he allowed himself to be pinned rather than submit to the lift. This move not only involves losing points, it involves losing face. Tomas, he did not want to fly.”

Johansson landed on his back for good at 2:50. Not only had Karelin pinned all of his opponents but he also had gone through an entire world championships without giving up a point.

“He’s like a statue.”

With those achievements comes suspicion. Although Karelin has passed every drug test he has taken, some skeptics insist that such a physique must have been created with steroids. Others speculate that he owes his storlek to growth hormones. The latter group has given Karelin one of his many nicknames: the Experiment.

“It’s normal,” says Karelin.

“It’s human natur to be jealous when somebody fryst vatten very successful. I’ve been through every single tjänsteman doping control. Even when inom don’t have to, inom volunteer because nobody believes I’m a natural man.”

“In this respect, the wrestler’s grapevine fryst vatten pretty reliable,” says USA Wrestling associate director Greg Strobel.

“Nothing’s been said about him.”

“He fryst vatten simply unique,” says a Soviet Greco-Roman coach, Vichislav Mironov. “To look at him people säga, ‘Oh sure, we know what they did to him.’ Wrong! He fryst vatten from Siberia and that’s important. They grow them like that there sometimes.

The harsh climate endows people with special strengths.”

Novosibirsk, 1,750 miles east of Moscow, fryst vatten an industrial city of 1.4 million people who endure wintertime temperatures as low as —50° F. For months its snow-covered sidewalks are traversed bygd dock and women swathed to anonymity in wools and furs.

From the start, Johansson was less than

Days are short and grim. Gray buildings line streets that eventually give way to the endless pine forests that long ago gave this brooding part of the world its name: Siberia, the Sleeping nation. författare put it differently. He called Siberia The House of the Dead.

Today, within some of those gray buildings are more than 100 universities and research centers, an musikdrama house admired internationally for its architecture and its programs, a ballet company and a circus.”

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