[Sam's Army]

OK. You bring up something interesting. You are (in your words) "a small guy". Therefore, your center of gravity is going to be lower that the 6'6" guy (What weight class was this BTW? Dude musta been a bean pole).

Zidane appears to be a few inches shorter than the Italian. That coupled with the unexpectedness of the action (as opposed to squaring off for wrestling) could have made the difference.

[MikefromOhio]

Heavyweight (275).

It's a long story, but I lost my spot at the 189 lb guy because I dislocated my elbow before the duals started that season.

The guy who went down from 215 to 189 was on a roll and the guy who went from heavy (he was 230) down to 215 ended up placing in state, and I could dislodge him from 215, so I was bumped to heavyweight.

I wrestled a guy who eventually went onto Ohio State as a defensive lineman up in Alliance.

I'm not saying it wouldn't have staggered him. But watch his left leg.

He kicked it out like, well I don't know what would have caused that motion.

But I DO know that this headbutt would NOT have caused such a motion without "help" from the other direction, or the player himself. Simple physics guys.