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Fleeing; Avoiding Wrestling or trying to score?
Topic Started: Jan 24 2017, 09:09 AM (915 Views)
Coddman
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I have a question about the "fleeing the mat" call. Here is the situation: Wrestler A starts down, on the whistle Wrestler A stands up, Wrestler B drops to a low single, Wrestler A tries to escape by hopping away, all the way from the center of the mat past the circle and drags B out of bounds. All of that takes about 3 seconds, so not enough time for a stalling call on B. Wrestler A did not free his leg, nor did he turn and face Wrestler B, so he didn't score.

He does have other options to avoid going out of bounds, i.e. turn and stuff head and free his leg, turn and go around the circle instead of going out of bounds.

Is it correct to interpret A's action as "avoiding wrestling" or "fleeing" if he is trying to escape and therefore score a point?
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WrestlingOfficial
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IMO no. He isn't avoiding being scored on. If that situation was from neutral then I would agree since A is trying to avoid B from scoring. In this situation A is trying to score.

Thats how I would call it.
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IMO it would depend upon other factors as well. What had previously occurred in the match? Did the top wrestler try to pull him back in bounds? Stalling warnings? Time left in the match? Score and who was ahead? One incident alone may or may not require a fleeing call, however a culmination of events could result in a different interpretation. For instance, if the wrestler had stood up previously and the top wrestler dropped to a single leg, returned him to the mat and proceeded to work hard to score back points, now his actions could be considered fleeing the mat to avoid being returned and controlled, but rather as an attempt to try to get another fresh start. Thus fleeing the mat could be the correct call.
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