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A Resort Owner Is Brutally Attack And Stabbed By A Group Who Was Making Trouble In South Africa
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2nd Year in a Row! Iranian Wrestler Throws the Match to Avoid Wrestling an Israeli
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Gay Georgia Couple Who Raped Their Special Needs Adopted Sons And Pimped Them Out For Others To Do The Same Get Sentenced To 100 Years In Prison
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Rabid Mamma Karen Attacks Young Women In A Parking Lot
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Shoplifting suspects discuss new California law which makes what they just did a felony in back of patrol car
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Has Chipotle Turned Into The New Waffle House?
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A Huge Chunk Of The Santa Cruz Pier Falls Off Into The Ocean, Taking Multiple People With It
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GRAPHIC And Verry Disturbing Video Shows The Illegal Migrant Who Set Fire To A Woman In NYC Fanning The Flames As She Burns To Death
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The Iranian wrestler was cruising through the match, looking like a sure bet to defeat his Russian opponent. But suddenly, as if suffering an injury, he fell to the mat and was thrown around the ring like a rag doll by the surprised Russian. Finally, the match ended and the referee pronounced the Russian the winner.
But the Iranian wrestler was not injured. As Iranian news outlets reported on Tuesday, he said his real problem was that his coach had told him to throw the match to avoid facing an Israeli opponent in the next round of the tournament.
In Iran’s hard-line ideology, Israel is not recognized as a state, and supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei often refers to the country as “a cancerous tumor.” Iranian athletes are forbidden to compete with Israelis in any sport, and, if necessary, are told to forfeit their matches or to feign sickness.
The wrestler, Alireza Karimi-Machiani, 23, can be seen in blue in the video below, taking on Alikhan Zhabrailov, a Russian, on Saturday at the U23 World Senior Wrestling Championship in Poland. (Begin video at 5:50.)
