SIAP, but Willie posted this on twitter:
And I responded with something that I always thought was a good idea for handling this and similar situations. (I can't remember if I came up with this or heard from someone else; I have brought this up several times over the years.) So, here goes: when a bottom wrestler improves to what otherwise would be a neutral position (e.g., standing or head/legs scramble as in Willie's post above) the ref says "neutral" and swipes a 5 count. If the "top" wrestler has not improved then a stall warning is given. If you can't keep the guy on the mat and you can't keep him off of your own legs then you don't control him and shouldn't awarded for that.
I'm guessing that there are issues with this approach, but I think it would get the wrestlers back to their feet more quickly when the top wrestler is not really fully controlling the bottom wrestler. An alternative I thought of earlier today was to just award the bottom wrestler the escape and stand them back up.
Thoughts?
And I responded with something that I always thought was a good idea for handling this and similar situations. (I can't remember if I came up with this or heard from someone else; I have brought this up several times over the years.) So, here goes: when a bottom wrestler improves to what otherwise would be a neutral position (e.g., standing or head/legs scramble as in Willie's post above) the ref says "neutral" and swipes a 5 count. If the "top" wrestler has not improved then a stall warning is given. If you can't keep the guy on the mat and you can't keep him off of your own legs then you don't control him and shouldn't awarded for that.
I'm guessing that there are issues with this approach, but I think it would get the wrestlers back to their feet more quickly when the top wrestler is not really fully controlling the bottom wrestler. An alternative I thought of earlier today was to just award the bottom wrestler the escape and stand them back up.
Thoughts?