In. The DuPont’s are wealthy pieces of shit
This guy does great work with his channel.
Unfortunately bad timing for Dave as John was a ticking time bomb for a very long time, his mothers passing had him completely wild.
The thing about the Schultz brothers is that the more that you learn about them; the more you want to know.
Mark Schultz at one point was the baddest man on the planet
IN Teresting
Dave competing with people 2 weight classes above and going nearly undefeated is oldschool legendary toughness.
Master of the mat!
Dave was playing with fire by the end and it was pretty obvious they were using DuPont and didn’t actually respect him.
Obviously the crime was inexcusable, but I bet if people could go back there were all kinds of red flags.
That being said it was bullshit an Olympic program was so dependent on a single private benefactor in the first place.
He was sponsoring other athletes too. Not just wrestling. Swimming I know was one Olympic sport he funded too. Had an Olympic size pool built on his property. Brought modern Triathlon to America.
Mark is a pretty interesting guy. He has told me some pretty crazy stuff that never made it into the documentaries.
Come on….
Holy shit
This is documentation of people finessing money out of a weirdo
Pretending that he is an athlete or a trauma specialist
This guy was an ADHD retard and whatever shiny object caught his attention got his funding
The information in the documentary is not accurate
He was initially banned from competing his senior year of high school due to not having the needed number of matches to qualify
- he was competing at Tubliisi Russia competing in the worlds toughest tournament
Freshman year of college
- Mike Sheets had his number… Dave was worried that he wouldn’t crack the starting lineup
Dave beat Mark Sheets senior year for the D1 title
I hate to say this… this is a miss
His information needs to be more accurate
The first 5 minutes are hard to get through
He recommends Mark Schultz book stating that it is a good read. Had he read it himself, the information that he struggles with, would have been corrected
Money talks.
The first time I was around John DuPont I was disgusted. My coach explained he was a big time donor and it made me sick he walked around like he did and that everyone accepted that this clearly gay guy was ogling them because he paid his way into our community. He acted like he was one of us and guys would let him win so he would keep giving. It was disgusting. Three years later Dave was killed and we all sat around the radio at work and listened
To what happened and was going on with the siege and I was the only one not surprised ( we all were wrestlers).
The more that I learn about him the more emotional I become
On one hand he built and funded trauma centers that have helped hundreds of thousands
On the other hand you have Dave Schultz
What the fuck….
I don’t think he had much to do with the medical centers. They were started by an earlier family member Alfred DuPont. He may have had some interaction through the DuPont board but I don’t know what his role with the board was.
I hope he died in a lot of pain. Fuck him. Dave Schultz was the man we all looked up to. He beat an Iranian in the finals of the Worlds and afterwards pulled him to the side mat and showed him how to counter the move he used to beat him.
From the video, it seemed that he had donated the money in order to build the facility
In the LOP Ron Tripp interview they talked about Dave’s love of wrestling far outweighed his desire to win
That seemed to be the reason that he had so many problems with Mike Sheets, Dave taught people how to beat him
So incredibly unselfish
- if 10% of the world acted like Dave Schultz we wouldn’t have major wars
I need to watch the above video. I didn’t realize he was financially involved with the centers. I am sure he was expected to be. I stand corrected there.
Mark told me the story of the double wristlock he used to fracture the Turkish wrestler’s arm in the Olympics. According to Mark he had picked it up in Cuba. When he came back to train with Dave, he used it and nearly injured Dave. Dave told him if he ever tried that again he would knock Mark’s teeth out.
As far as DuPont goes, I have heard differing opinions on the validity of this, Mark wouldn’t confirm or deny mostly because I don’t think he knew. But supposedly when Dave was murdered, there was either one or a group of Russians involved with organized crime who made it known that if DuPont ever got paroled the authorities would find pieces of him wedged into luggage around the tri state area.