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The One- Legged Wrestler Who Conquered His Sport, Then Left It Behind. The first match of the last tournament of Anthony Robles's wrestling career began with his dropping to the mat in a tripod—two hands and a knee. There was no other limb to use; Robles had been born without a right leg, and now the bottom of his maroon- and- gold Arizona State University singlet hung shriveled and slack on that side. His opponent in the 1. Virginia sophomore named Matt Snyder, loomed over him, twice his height, even in a wrestler's crouch. It was March 2. 01.

Robles was in Philadelphia for the NCAA Division I championships, college wrestling's preeminent tournament. As a sophomore, he had finished an auspicious fourth; the next year, he had slipped to seventh. Now, as a senior, he was the top seed—a first for a one- legged wrestler. His remarkable achievement had drawn a throng of reporters to the pre- tournament press conference, where, to widespread bewilderment, Robles had announced that he would retire from wrestling at the end of the championships. He would not compete internationally. He would not try out for the London Olympics. He would become a motivational speaker, he had told the baffled reporters and fans before him, and turn his back on wrestling at the moment he had come to dominate it.

Snyder circled. Robles pawed his opponent's head, then shot forward, viperlike, at Snyder's legs. There was no time to sprawl away.

In an instant, Robles took Snyder down and began shifting side to side, looking for an opportunity to lever him onto his back. Seconds later, he found it. Securing Snyder's hands and hips, Robles rolled across his own back, creating such torque that Snyder was forced to give up his position or risk serious injury. Snyder yielded, and Robles flipped him. The crowd erupted as Robles held his man inverted, watching the referee count off points.

Robles let Snyder right himself, then turned him again. And again and again and again. In the second period, with the score 1. TKO in boxing, saving the loser needless pain and humiliation."He just completely dominated me," Snyder said later. I was like, 'This isn't fair.'"Something amazing would unfold over the next few days: A one- legged man would climb to the pinnacle of a sport that selects for such anatomical homogeneity that competitors of different weight classes frequently look like Russian nesting dolls of one another. What Robles accomplished that weekend in Philadelphia was unprecedented in his sport, perhaps in any sport. But what he planned to do afterward left everyone just as dumbstruck.

Why was he walking away? The first time I met Anthony Robles—and nearly every time after—he was intercepted by a fan. We had arranged an interview at a Sheraton in St. Louis, where he was in town to provide color commentary for ESPN during the 2. Division I championships. Robles loped into the hotel lobby on a pair of aluminum crutches—powerfully built with a handsome, gap- toothed grin that faintly recalled a young Mike Tyson.

I turned to greet him, and as I did an enormous man stepped between us. Four- time Super Bowl champion linebacker Matt Millen wanted to introduce himself to Robles and, not surprisingly, I couldn't get around him.

Fifteen minutes passed. At last, Robles looked over to his agent, Gary Lewis, who maneuvered me between his client and Millen. Watch Garden State Online Metacritic.

Each man, the wrestler and the linebacker, extended a beefy hand in my direction. It was a daunting decision. Wrestlers are known for their prodigious hand strength. Oklahoma alumnus Danny Hodge can still crush an apple in one hand at the age of 8. But Robles's grip is fearsome even by wrestling standards. Watch Azumi Putlocker#. Opponents have rarely been able to pry it off with one hand, and only sometimes with two. Many have ended up surrendering to his hold and have focused instead on limiting the damage he could do with it.

I couldn't even think of breaking his lock," one candid victim told me. I opted for the evil I didn't know and tentatively placed my hand in Millen's massive paw. He squeezed it, hard, and when he finally returned it to me intact, I felt as if I had gotten away with something splendid and improbable, like a deer bolting free of an anaconda's coil. Then I turned to Robles, whose handshake turned out to be restrained, even gentle. I wondered at this as we ducked into the hotel's sticky- floored lounge, which was not due to open for several hours, and where I imagined his fans wouldn't find us.

Twenty minutes later, a middle- aged man with a Negro League baseball jersey peered into the darkened banquette where I was interviewing Robles. He was missing a number of teeth, and he looked like he hadn't been eating well. Man! Man!" he cried out when he discovered the person he had come looking for, and fell sobbing into Robles's arms.

You're a good brother! You're a good brother!" the man said, over and over again. Robles held him, and they talked for what seemed like a long time. Watch Dead Mine Online Freeform. After the man left, blubbering an apology for interrupting, I asked Robles if he knew who he was. Robles said no. I asked if that kind of thing had happened before.

Robles looked at me evenly. It happens a lot," he said. Later that day, while Robles, Lewis and I were walking the concession- stand loop of the stadium, a staffer stopped Lewis to ask if he needed a wheelchair for—pointing at Robles, on his crutches—"that one." Robles demurred so generously that the staffer smiled with the satisfaction of someone who has just discharged an important civic duty. Wrestling has barely changed since it was practiced in ancient Babylon, and one of the axiomatic truths of the sport is (or was) that success depends on a pair of strong, flexible legs. From my own high school experience, I learned that a wrestler can compensate for minor physical idiosyncrasies—a torso that is too long, say, or arms that don't straighten all the way.

But to excel at the Division I level, you need legs like a Clydesdale's. Yet Robles, in his senior year at ASU, carved through the opposition like Sherman through Georgia. He was so good, in fact, that a contingent of wrestling fans declared his missing leg to be an unfair advantage. Most wrestlers outside the Corn Belt train and compete in near obscurity, but like a gambler who wins too much at the blackjack table, Robles had become too dominant not to be an object of scrutiny and suspicion. He can carry more muscle in his torso, the brief against him went.

He can get so low you can't shoot under him. And the ultimate reversal: It's unfair that he has just one leg for opponents to attack. Did Robles win in spite of his one- leggedness, or because of it? It's an ungracious question, but it deserves consideration.

For some differently shaped athletes, the matter is testable. When Oscar Pistorius, the South African double- amputee sprinter now accused of murdering his girlfriend, moved from Paralympic competition to able- bodied races, he underwent intensive biomechanical evaluation to determine whether his artificial legs were inherently faster than flesh- and- blood ones. Treadmills and stopwatches found no advantage, and he was cleared to compete. In his case, the question of fairness was simply a question of physics. Wrestling is more complex.

Where the outcome of a sprint is dictated by a single variable—speed—wrestling matches turn on an interaction of factors, including flexibility, timing, strength, endurance, and countless others. Robles was at a marked disadvantage on one of the most influential of these dimensions.