Brock Lesnar vs Stephen Neal; 1999 NCAA title match and more

Look at todays price of ncaa tickets compared to 2000. Btw cool you kept that ticket and his card. Dale is a legend.

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A Dale story-

I wrestled in CA JC and on the first round of state duels we beat Dales team. We met them again for 3 and 4th place match. Dale changed up his lineup. My opponent threw me on my head and onto my back and being the dick I am…I bit him. Thereby causing a huge brawl and getting like 3 of our guys ejected. The next match was Tito vs Terry at 177. Terry was way better imo but Tito got in his head during the brawl and ends up kicking the shit out of Terry and Terry’s match and my match are why we lose. My coach is so pissed he tells me to find my own ride home and he leaves me in San Diego ( I’m from oc). I knew Dale since I was a kid and he hears I am stranded. He sends one of his guys to find me and tell me they will give me a ride home. So Dale took me home in his team van with the guy I bit. I had to sit in front of him and the whole time I was waiting to get cracked. Dale had told everyone that I was now a guest and I was to be treated as such. All of those guys were happy I bit him except him. Lol

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Dude!! That is awesome! You got in a melee with Titto, you and Lee Murray have stories in common. Lol! What an awkward ride home, that shit only happens in wrestling.

That reminds me of so many of my own wrestling stories! We had a hot head on our team that got bit during a match and he hauled off and punched the guy. Ref, stopped the match to DQ him and then he showed the ref the bite marks and the ref let them finish the match. The hot head from our team was crazy and spent more time in jail then he did in school, so proceeds to find where the guy worked and slashed his tires and broke all the windows on his car. This went back and forth between these two guys for months until it ended when they happened to both be a a red wings game and caused a melee in the stands.

Not getting a ride home.
I dislocated my shoulder throwing a guy when he wizard down real hard and we both hit the mat face first. My shoulder comes all the way out, you know when your screaming so loud you think it’s someone else. Lol! So, I have enough points to stall my way through the rest of the match and win, then withdraw from the rest of the tournament.

My dad coached for 35+ years and wrestled for Oklahoma State, he’s as fucking old school as it gets. We are driving home from this tournament around midnight and my dad is just bitching up a storm about my match, I ask if we can just drop it and take me to the hospital. He pulls the car over and tells me to get the fuck out of his car and to walk home. 15 miles at midnight in the middle of a Michigan winter with a dislocated shoulder. Good times! Growing up in a wrestling family! Lol!

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Ticket prices are crazy! I think I spent $2,800 for tickets last year after all the B.S. fees and shit!

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Lol! Great times wrestling is!!! Lol but really great times.

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The best thing that I have from that 2000 NCAA tournament is a my own video, similar to the Twitter post above. Brock hit what I have always called “The Cartwheel of Doom!” I can’t imagine there are that many views of this match floating around out there.

Funny Brock story, I was at the gym doing a segment with Brock and I thought he would be excited that I had captured that takedown. (I literally had to hold my camera inside my jacket, it’s not like now when no one cares that you’re filming).

Brock watches the clip and asks how I got the video and that he’s never seen footage from that match. I ask him if he wants me to send him the clip, Brock, “No, I was there!” He basically gave no fucks over one of the coolest counter takedowns ever!

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That’s cool. That’s a famous takedown!

What’s most crazy is DC was going to fight Brock who actually wrestled at NCAA level at 101bs heavier weight class (i.e. DC: 184, Brock: 285).

Shocked Face Wow GIF

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And now DC looks like he ate Brock, that would have been a great fight! If Jones becomes champ, I think Brock would take a crack at him if given the chance.

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Mike whitehead made DC cry… imagine what brock would have done.

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ufc-mma

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Did he ever do anything significant in free or greco? I don’t think so.

Also, Brock’s entire athletic career has been dependent on PED’s.

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I was talking with his teammates his senior year, 2000 and telling them he needed to try to get into the UFC. I had to explain to them what the UFC was first, they were like, “yeah, he’s already signed a contract with the WWF!” And that was during the NCAA tournament. I think it was about 2 years later when he started to make an impact in the WWF…. (I just remember being bummed that he was going to waste his talents in the WWF)

I don’t think he ever dipped a toe into that world. Besides Neal there was McCoy, Erickson and Thompson who were all just as big and strong, and could wrestle.

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I mean even cadets or juniors.

DC looks small compared to him. After seeing Cain absolutely destroy Brock and make him look like he didn’t even belong in the cage with him, I still would have picked DC to win all day, though.

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TTT RVD

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Is the black dude Bandeli Adidi-bada from Penn?

I think it was. I would have to look at the bracket that year, but I think that was his name.

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