#I once saw a girl enter a new weight class by eating a chocolate bar

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Today's niche Mom Can't Cook knowledge is that while I was not a wrestler in high school, I was a competitive powerlifter, which is also relies on weight classes, and if you think they talked about it way past the point of tedium in that movie, it's way worse in real life.

Also, what's his name is a fuckin scrub for not being able to change his weight by 6 pounds

For our meets, and this was normal then, which was basically the same time the movie is set, we'd weigh in advance and then the coach would turn in the card with at least one lifter in every weight class. You always wanted to be as heavy as you could be without going into another weight class, because it gave you an advantage (don't know if that's also true for wrestling, but it seems like it must be)

And sometimes you get in there and the scale is 3, 4, 5 pounds off what you need it to say, and that is when The Bullshit begins. Girls taking off clothes, girls putting on clothes, girls shedding water weight, girls eating whatever was available, as long as it wasn't drugs or holding onto a literal weight, we'd do it

Six pounds?? Give me forty-five minutes and don't ask any questions