![]() ![]() "I found out I was going to wrestle heavyweight nine minutes before the match started." Harlow, you're going heavyweight.' Holy mackerel." I had a little bit more experience, so when I was getting ready to warm up for the 177-pound match, the news came from Roderick, 'Fozzard, you're going to 177. Gabbett was a heavyweight, Fozzard and I both weighed in at 177. So, with two matches left, there was me, (Fred) Fozzard and (Ron) Gabbett left. ![]() I thought it was, but as the match went on, (Myron) Roderick had some choices he had to make because OU won a match or two that we didn't think they were going to win. The part I remember is I weighed in at 177, and I didn't know if that was the weight I was going to wrestle at. "Going into the match, the house was packed. He was tall, rangy, pretty strong kid and could really move." I think that year he took third in the nationals at heavyweight. "OU had Luke Sharpe, who transferred in from Duke, and I think he was ACC Champion the year before he moved to OU. We really didn't have what you'd call a regular heavyweight." OU had a good team, bunch of really tough kids and ours were solid. ![]() Carl Guymon tells the story of Bill "Little Big Man" Harlow's 1966 heavyweight Bedlam bout versus Luke Sharpe.īill Harlow: "Both teams were pretty darn good. In the second feature of our series dedicated to reliving the best moments in the history of Gallagher-Iba Arena, former OSU wrestler Bill Harlow and longtime wrestling reporter J. ![]()
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