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I remember our wrestling coach constantly comparing the sport to womens' sports with higher injury rates.

"No need to be careful - this isn't [cheerleading|womens' soccer|volleyball] where you could actually get hurt"

That's a fun anecdote. I referee high school and youth wrestling and there are several coaches who are paraplegic or quadriplegic because of neck or spinal injuries they got wrestling. I assume there are other injured people who didn't want to have anything to do with the sport after their injury.

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