Ok, last year the weight-limit for heavyweight was 300, why was it changed?



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Last year the weight limit was 285. A few years ago it was 275 and was changed to 285. As far as I know it has never been 300.

the weight limit was never 300.

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Originally posted by warria_189:
the weight limit was never 300.

Try telling that to Mike Max et al....

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the weight limit was never 300.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but back in the "stone ages" I don't believe heavyweight had a weight limit.

Easy there rmh, I like to think I'm young and I remember when heavy weight was unlimited and there was no 215.

rmh you are correct it was Unlimited

I am for bringing the limit up to 300 or going unlimited again. We are pushing our linemen to become bigger and then limiting the chances for teams to have a HWT. Does not make much sense to do this.
I know some will say that a lineman should not be fat anyway (I am one) but you cannot tell this to some football coaches and parents. Why not roll with it and move the weight up. I also think there should be a weight between 215 and Hwt.

Chad...I wouldn't call you FAT. Big-boned, maybe...

One of the first wrestling matches I saw, Milford wrestled Tri County and Tri County had a heavyweight by the name of Lydell Miller, who weighed so much they couldn't get an accurate weight on the scale in the locker room (think it maxed out at 350). He went up against our heavyweight, who was wrestling his first-ever varsity match that night and tipped the scales at a rather bulky 200 pounds (I think he was fully clothed with two winter parkas and snow boots when he stepped on the scale).

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Originally posted by rmh:
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but back in the "stone ages" I don't believe heavyweight had a weight limit.

You are correct there rmh. Im pretty sure that they didn't have the 285 limit then. Thats why they invented sumo wrestling.

Hmm..... ok, well i was just wonderin cause last year i wrestled a kid that wieghed-in at around 300 and this year i have to cut wieght and im at about 290 so i didnt know what was goin on


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Originally posted by Eagle1:
Easy there rmh, I like to think I'm young and I remember when heavy weight was unlimited and there was no 215.

Unlike you, Eagle 1, who THINKS you are young, I KNOW that I am young and when I started coaching the last two weight classes were 165, then unlimited. About 10 years before that they were 154, then unlimited.

When Chris Taylor was wrestling at Iowa State I asked him what he weighed. He told me that every so often he went to a grain elevator in Ames to check his weight. He told me that once it was 515 lbs, but that he was sure the scale was wrong. He was a large lad.

Frank...that's what we call a "big fella."

A friend of mine knows Lydell Miller and says he conservatively weighs in at around six bills now.