If your next match was the last time you ever competed, how would you want to be remembered?
A wrestling match is only six minutes long. We put in countless hours of training for such a short competition. We run, lift, go to early morning practices, skip meals, and sit for hours in the sauna, all for the chance of getting our hand raised.
So your name is called, and you make your way to the mat.
You shake hands with your opponent and the ref blows the whistle. You’ve got less than 400 seconds to display thousands of hours of work -- only six minutes to reveal the courage that you’ve spent years building. And once those six minutes are up, whether you gave your best or not, the result of that match is stored in the history books forever.
So I’ll ask you again. Some day, years from now, when you’re no longer around to defend your legacy, and the only available footage for people to watch of you is the video of your next match, how do you want to be remembered? Will you go out on your...