{"id":363998,"date":"2024-01-30T18:19:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=363998"},"modified":"2024-01-30T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:01:41","slug":"watch-middle-school-wrestling-parents-fight-in-the-stands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=363998","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Middle school (!) wrestling parents fight in the stands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the do-or-die world of New Jersey middle school wrestling, even parents get in on the action.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what happened at this event in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. And just want to underscore once again that this was a middle school match.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t much to be said here about this incident, right? While the start of the melee is unclear, the fallout seems rather significant.<\/p>\n<p>Punches being thrown, coaches yelling. Parents streaming onto the floor. The dual-meet is stopped. Kids watching parents go at it.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t what wrestling should be about at any level.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey is a premier wrestling state, routinely funneling athletes top programs such as <a href=\"https:\/\/nittanylionswire.usatoday.com\/\">Penn State<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com\/\">Iowa<\/a>, North Carolina State, Virginia Tech, <a href=\"https:\/\/rutgerswire.usatoday.com\/\">Rutgers<\/a> as well as the Ivy League. Wrestling is taken seriously in New Jersey, but this is unwarranted at any level.<\/p>\n<p>(Warning: There is some adult language in this video. Viewer discretion is advised).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wrestling parents brawling in Phillipsburg, NJ: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HnJE1Qed39\">pic.twitter.com\/HnJE1Qed39<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Wrestling Room (Pat Mineo) (@MrPatMineo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrPatMineo\/status\/1752063420856467516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The actual cause of the fight remains a bit murky. A scan of social media only seems to involve fingerpointing at a group of fans, but leads nowhere in terms of the cause for the fighting between the parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Wrestling parents fight.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364000,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363998\/revisions\/364000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}