Debate: Fencing VS Wrestling
Side: Wrestling

If supplied with the correct equipment, you don't have to.I was talking about real-world practicality. Wrestling training makes your body less susceptible to injury both on the mat and off. Fencing doesn't do much for you other than make you a better fencer. If by the incredibly small chance you happen to find yourself in a real life sword fight, you will be no more capable of taking a stab wound than your assailant. Have you ever wrestled? I have, for about half a decade now. I've yet to be injured. The reason is when you get injured in wrestling, it's because you did something stupid. As long as your opponent stays within the rules, you can't be injured unless you decide to break your fall on the tips of your fingers or something along those lines. This is also yet another argument for why wrestling requires more intelligence. If you got injured, It wouldn't be the sports fault, it would be your fault. Show me a list of wrestling rules that encourage injury and I'll show you a blank sheet of paper. I'll concede that both sports require split-second decisions. I don't think fencing requires faster reactions and if you saw how fast high level wrestlers both make and defend shots, you wouldn't argue this either.I'll go through your list of qualities you attribute to fencing:quick decision making Already agree they both dointelligence This assumes the thing you're trying to arguefitness Compared to wrestling? Not even close. You could be a world champion fencer with a 12 minute mile and a 25% body fat rating. These qualities would get you obliterated even in high-school level wrestling. coordination In fencing, you only have to be coordinated to the extent that you can stand with a sword in front of you and accurately stab your opponent. In wrestling, you not only have to be coordinated with someone else on top of you/trying to get you off balance, but you have to do it better than them. There is no person-to-person contact in fencing, so a fencers coordination, while admittedly impressive, doesn't take as much.good sportsmanship This is something pretty much every sport can claim.as in wrestling you would require to just pin them. Well, that's the pure basics anyway. In fencing I would be required to block, move, dance a little bit, make a couple of attacks, and think of innovative ways to surprise my opponent and stay focussed.You can't "just pin" someone in wrestling. Wrestling challenges every aspect of the man. His strength, his technique, his mental fortitude, his endurance and his intelligence. If such things as "dancing a little bit" are evidence of the intelligence required in fencing, then wrestling requires Mensa-level geniuses. When a wrestler has to made a choice, he makes it under extreme duress. He can't take a second to catch his breath and he can't dance around to give him enough time to switch up his plan if things aren't going well (other than at the very beginning, but then he doesn't know that his plan won't work out yet).If a wrestler wants to take the advantage, he has to do so while maintaining a high energy-consuming defence. Analysing this sort of risk in all its complexities while under such intense stress clearly requires more intelligence than a sport where you have the option of temporarily disengaging to get collect your thoughts.