You've got to hand it to Alan in the first fall. He not only takes on one of the better wrestlers in BG, but he beats him. The Tiger made a mistake. He decided to try and outwrestle Love on the mat, and while the Tiger's hold knowledge is quite considerable he had to give away a lot of height and weight. Perhaps he was lulled into thinking that Alan Love was a wrestling patsy. In any case Alan amazes everyone, including BG, by out muscling, outwrestling, and even shortcutting the Tiger with a ball squeeze and some other dirty infighting. In fact he is trouncing the Tiger so badly by the end of...

You've got to hand it to Alan in the first fall. He not only takes on one of the better wrestlers in BG, but he beats him. The Tiger made a mistake. He decided to try and outwrestle Love on the mat, and while the Tiger's hold knowledge is quite considerable he had to give away a lot of height and weight. Perhaps he was lulled into thinking that Alan Love was a wrestling patsy. In any case Alan amazes everyone, including BG, by out muscling, outwrestling, and even shortcutting the Tiger with a ball squeeze and some other dirty infighting. In fact he is trouncing the Tiger so badly by the end of the first fall that BG personally intervenes and tells Alan to ”Ask the Tiger to give up!” By that time a flailing, barely able to comprehend Tiger, submits readily. The Tiger better go back to the drawing board to come up with a second fall strategy that will allow him to stay in the game. Alan Love comes out like a house of fire. He continues pretty much from where he left off at the end of the first fall. Finally in what seems like desperation panic to BG, The Tiger reverses and tries to bring Alan under some kind of control. This succeeds for a time, but in what BG can only describe as pretty much a give and take situation which mirrored the closeness of the first fall, the outcome of the second is pretty much in doubt until the very end when Collins is able to make Love submit in a reversal that Alan couldn't himself reverse this time. BG continues to be very impressed with Love's wrestling skills and ability to stay the course. At one point in the third fall BG wonders if there is an upset victory in the making as Alan continues his manhandling ways. Finally overwhelming frustration sets in. The Tiger, through a combination of sheer and skill finally breaks through Love's defenses. It's now payback time and he makes Alan suffer in a successive series of holds that eventually pays a dividend. A victory dividend!