Below is the tournament I talked about in my Christmas post. He weighed in at 145 but is wrestling 152. He has really matured in his skills.
A couple of pictures for my Mom. This is Anthony's coach and yes, it is Anthony's blood he is wiping up. Just another reason why I hate wrestling. There are more pictures to show the level of pain my baby went through this day.
Here they are bandaging the kid up. You will notice that Anthony's head gear has a strap that goes right below his chin. In another tournament someone pulled that head gear and rubbed under his chin raw. This is what is bleeding. Now if you remember the Christmas post were I pointed out the rash all over his face. We believe that he caught some sort of bacteria from the mats. Either because of this cut or a nice lovely one that happened the week before above his eye. They keep these mats sprayed and clean. They do body checks for rashes and other signs of infection, but it still happens. The things these boys put their bodies through for this sport, but he loves it. Last year we dealt with ringworm the whole season. The year before that, his good friend struggled with staph. Anthony came home from his first tournament looking like he had been hit by a truck. Black eye, cut over eye and nose, but he took first.
Look at this picture, that is not a smile. The arm that is being pulled up over his head is a shoulder that was injured last year. That is a face of pain. Why doesn't he wear a brace? Because the other kid would focus on that shoulder. My suggestion was to wear the brace on the wrong shoulder. Hummmmmm, I think it is a great idea. Or, better yet, take up knitting.
But he is determined to beat this kid, injured or not.
Look at him go!!!!
He pins him!!!
This is the part I like.
However here we go again. His opponent picked him up and threw him on the ground. Crap, hurt again.
He gave it the good fight but didn't win this match. He took third in the tournament.
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